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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 519 569
Rank change year-on-year +27 +50 +162
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 6 37 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.023% 0.099% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.049% 0.23% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 47
10th Percentile - £425 £440
25th Percentile £408 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £460 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% -14.42% +5.13%
75th Percentile £423 £575 £650
90th Percentile - £595 -
UK median daily rate £415 £460 £525
% change year-on-year -9.78% -12.38% +16.67%

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 12,357 15,948 20,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.33% 42.67% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,819 10,106 13,824
10th Percentile £280 £275 £267
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £627 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 1,060 550
10th Percentile £14.76 £12.50 £14.98
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.84 £18.53
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -23.33% +48.57%
75th Percentile £51.74 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +83.51%

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

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

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 3 July 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 +42 4 - - 4
East of England +24 1 - -
South East +17 1 £415 -9.78% 1
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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Akamai
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) DMVPN
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) IPsec
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) GLBP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (16.67%) Multicast
3 1 (16.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Operations Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Due Diligence
2 1 (16.67%) Hyperautomation
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) SOAR
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCDP
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCSA
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Snort
1 1 (16.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Nessus
2 1 (16.67%) Nexpose
2 1 (16.67%) Suricata
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) NetScout
3 2 (33.33%) Zscaler
4 1 (16.67%) Arista
4 1 (16.67%) Carbon Black
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (16.67%) FireEye
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) Qualys
4 1 (16.67%) Riverbed