Blue Coat Contracts 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 2 May 2025, 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 512 597
Rank change year-on-year +34 +85 +143
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 8 29 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.078% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.069% 0.19% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 49
10th Percentile £409 £390 £456
25th Percentile £411 £431 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -16.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £494 £533 £650
90th Percentile £573 £586 -
UK median daily rate £438 £460 £538
% change year-on-year -4.89% -14.42% +16.22%

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 11,599 15,648 21,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.51% 42.12% 41.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,469 9,939 14,475
10th Percentile £288 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,015 597
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.50 £14.41 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Blue Coat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in England

Blue Coat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat in England.

Daily rate trend for Blue Coat in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Coat in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Coat in England

Blue Coat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat in England.

Hourly rate trend for Blue Coat in England

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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 2 May 2025. 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
London +37 4 £450 - 2
North of England +24 2 £525 -
South East +29 1 £415 -9.78%
East of England +29 1 - -
North West +14 1 £425 -
Yorkshire - 1 £625 -
Blue Coat
UK

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Akamai
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 2 (25.00%) BGP
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (25.00%) DMVPN
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) HTTP
3 2 (25.00%) Internet
3 2 (25.00%) IPsec
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) SSL
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 2 (25.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (12.50%) DWDM
4 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 1 (12.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) RIP
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (12.50%) Due Diligence
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
3 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CCDP
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) F5
2 4 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (50.00%) Juniper
3 3 (37.50%) Zscaler
4 2 (25.00%) Arista
4 2 (25.00%) NetScout
4 2 (25.00%) Splunk
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix
5 1 (12.50%) McAfee
5 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (12.50%) Riverbed
5 1 (12.50%) Symantec