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 27 October 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
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 459 553
Rank change year-on-year -21 +94 +82
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 38 42 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.094%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.30% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 31
10th Percentile £355 £395 £450
25th Percentile £380 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £541
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% -5.26% -1.65%
75th Percentile £525 £603 £590
90th Percentile £536 £750 £630
UK median daily rate £400 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -5.66%

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 13,661 14,002 17,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.83% 44.93% 44.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,707 8,382 11,905
10th Percentile £278 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £643
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 455 626
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £15.11
25th Percentile £17.98 £15.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.04 £35.36 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -29.19% -19.26% +75.17%
75th Percentile £43.22 £65.00 £62.53
90th Percentile £69.99 £73.75 £76.39
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -23.53% +70.00%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 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
Midlands -11 17 £380 - 1
West Midlands - 17 £380 - 1
North West -23 16 £500 -24.53%
North of England -34 16 £500 -24.53%
London +6 10 £525 -4.55% 2
South East -5 2 £450 -25.00% 2
East of England -14 1 £400 - 5
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 4 (10.53%) Azure
1 4 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (10.53%) Cloudflare
1 4 (10.53%) GCP
1 4 (10.53%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (71.05%) SSL
2 23 (60.53%) DNS
3 16 (42.11%) Firewall
3 16 (42.11%) TCP/IP
4 15 (39.47%) HTTP
5 12 (31.58%) BIG-IP
5 12 (31.58%) WAN
6 10 (26.32%) Cisco IPT
6 10 (26.32%) DMVPN
6 10 (26.32%) IPsec
6 10 (26.32%) Network Security
6 10 (26.32%) VPN
6 10 (26.32%) Wireless
6 10 (26.32%) Wireshark
7 9 (23.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (23.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (15.79%) DMZ
9 2 (5.26%) LAN
10 1 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Fiddler
General
1 8 (21.05%) Banking
1 8 (21.05%) Investment Banking
2 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.53%) Finance
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (68.42%) Network Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Web Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Security Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Junior
5 5 (13.16%) Junior Network Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) IP Network Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Operations Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Python Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Security Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Security Operations Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Principal Network Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Data Centre
2 8 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 6 (15.79%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 10 (26.32%) Change Management
2 10 (26.32%) Data Loss Prevention
2 10 (26.32%) Incident Response
2 10 (26.32%) Inventory Management
3 9 (23.68%) Migration
4 6 (15.79%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 5 (13.16%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (13.16%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (13.16%) Web Filtering
6 4 (10.53%) Hyperautomation
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (10.53%) Network Architecture
6 4 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.53%) Security Operations
6 4 (10.53%) SIEM
6 4 (10.53%) SOAR
6 4 (10.53%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) Bash
2 4 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) Firmware
2 4 (10.53%) Snort
2 4 (10.53%) Squid
3 2 (5.26%) ProxySG
3 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Nessus
2 4 (10.53%) Nexpose
2 4 (10.53%) Suricata
Vendors
1 29 (76.32%) F5
2 18 (47.37%) McAfee
3 14 (36.84%) Cisco
4 13 (34.21%) VMware
5 10 (26.32%) CheckPoint
5 10 (26.32%) Juniper
6 9 (23.68%) NetApp
7 4 (10.53%) Carbon Black
7 4 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (10.53%) FireEye
7 4 (10.53%) Google
7 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
7 4 (10.53%) Palo Alto
7 4 (10.53%) Qualys
7 4 (10.53%) Splunk
7 4 (10.53%) Zscaler
8 3 (7.89%) Symantec
9 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.63%) Infoblox