Blue Coat Contract Job Trends in England

Blue Coat
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Blue Coat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blue Coat over the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 463 523
Rank change year-on-year -74 +60 +58
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 48 12 33
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.049% 0.088%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.10% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 17
10th Percentile £377 £410 £405
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -2.17% -16.36%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £553
90th Percentile £543 £620 £594
UK median daily rate £500 £438 £460
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.89% -16.36%

All Vendors
England

Blue Coat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,541 11,546 15,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.61% 47.22% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,782 7,492 10,220
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £514
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.16% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 873 421 958
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.29
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -31.43%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.45 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -10.37% +23.84% -40.09%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blue Coat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Blue Coat job vacancy trend in England

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blue Coat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Coat in England over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Coat in England

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blue Coat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat within the England region over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -10 34 £500 -
North of England -40 34 £500 -13.04%
West Midlands - 21 £378 - 1
Midlands - 21 £378 - 1
London -47 9 £500 +11.11%
East of England -30 1 £400 - 2
South East -53 1 £500 +20.48%
Blue Coat
UK

Blue Coat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (4.17%) Cloudflare
2 2 (4.17%) GCP
2 2 (4.17%) OpenDNS
3 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (83.33%) DNS
2 38 (79.17%) SSL
3 34 (70.83%) TCP/IP
4 32 (66.67%) BIG-IP
4 32 (66.67%) HTTP
5 30 (62.50%) Wireshark
6 20 (41.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 20 (41.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 9 (18.75%) Firewall
8 8 (16.67%) Network Security
9 5 (10.42%) WAN
10 4 (8.33%) VPN
11 3 (6.25%) Cisco IPT
11 3 (6.25%) DMVPN
11 3 (6.25%) DMZ
11 3 (6.25%) IPsec
11 3 (6.25%) Wireless
12 2 (4.17%) LAN
13 1 (2.08%) DHCP
13 1 (2.08%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 30 (62.50%) Fiddler
General
1 19 (39.58%) Banking
1 19 (39.58%) Investment Banking
2 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 33 (68.75%) Web Engineer
3 21 (43.75%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 19 (39.58%) IP Network Engineer
5 11 (22.92%) Junior
5 11 (22.92%) Junior Network Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Operations Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Security Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Security Operations Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) SOC Analyst
9 1 (2.08%) Firewall Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Support Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Technical Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Technical Support
9 1 (2.08%) Technical Support Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.08%) CSS
2 1 (2.08%) HTML
2 1 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (39.58%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 31 (64.58%) Data Loss Prevention
3 30 (62.50%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 6 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 5 (10.42%) Change Management
6 3 (6.25%) Inventory Management
7 2 (4.17%) Business Strategy
7 2 (4.17%) Design Patterns
7 2 (4.17%) Hyperautomation
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (4.17%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (4.17%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 2 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (4.17%) Security Operations
7 2 (4.17%) SIEM
7 2 (4.17%) SOAR
7 2 (4.17%) Threat Detection
7 2 (4.17%) User Experience
7 2 (4.17%) Web Filtering
7 2 (4.17%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (6.25%) Bash
3 2 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) CCNP
2 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.08%) CCIE
3 1 (2.08%) CCNA
System Software
1 20 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (39.58%) Firmware
3 11 (22.92%) VMware NSX
4 4 (8.33%) ProxySG
5 2 (4.17%) Docker
5 2 (4.17%) Snort
5 2 (4.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Nessus
2 2 (4.17%) Nexpose
2 2 (4.17%) Suricata
3 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (85.42%) F5
2 38 (79.17%) McAfee
3 35 (72.92%) VMware
4 20 (41.67%) NetApp
5 6 (12.50%) Cisco
6 4 (8.33%) Zscaler
7 3 (6.25%) CheckPoint
7 3 (6.25%) Juniper
7 3 (6.25%) Symantec
8 2 (4.17%) Carbon Black
8 2 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (4.17%) FireEye
8 2 (4.17%) Google
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.17%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.17%) Qualys
8 2 (4.17%) Radware
8 2 (4.17%) Splunk
9 1 (2.08%) Netskope
9 1 (2.08%) Okta