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 24 May 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
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 467 505
Rank change year-on-year -83 +38 +51
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 42 6 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.025% 0.088%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.052% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 13
10th Percentile £373 £408 £425
25th Percentile £391 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £420 £460
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -8.70% -17.86%
75th Percentile £497 £434 £553
90th Percentile £578 £436 £587
UK median daily rate £475 £420 £460
% change year-on-year +13.10% -8.70% -14.42%

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 17,041 11,439 15,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.00% 47.68% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,006 7,347 9,722
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +2.14% -4.37%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 467 1,013
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -41.56%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £76.68 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.12% -47.88%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -13 28 £450 +5.88% 1
North of England -50 28 £450 +5.88% 2
West Midlands - 20 £378 -
Midlands - 20 £378 -
London -54 10 £488 -
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 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (4.76%) AWS
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.38%) Cloudflare
3 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.38%) GCP
3 1 (2.38%) OpenDNS
3 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (85.71%) DNS
1 36 (85.71%) SSL
2 32 (76.19%) TCP/IP
3 30 (71.43%) HTTP
4 28 (66.67%) BIG-IP
5 27 (64.29%) Wireshark
6 19 (45.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 19 (45.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (23.81%) Firewall
7 10 (23.81%) Network Security
8 6 (14.29%) VPN
9 4 (9.52%) IPsec
9 4 (9.52%) WAN
10 3 (7.14%) Cisco IPT
10 3 (7.14%) DHCP
10 3 (7.14%) DMVPN
10 3 (7.14%) DMZ
10 3 (7.14%) VLAN
10 3 (7.14%) Wireless
11 2 (4.76%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 27 (64.29%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 19 (45.24%) Banking
1 19 (45.24%) Investment Banking
2 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Finance
2 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Police
4 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 28 (66.67%) Web Engineer
3 18 (42.86%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 18 (42.86%) IP Network Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) Security Engineer
5 9 (21.43%) Junior
5 9 (21.43%) Junior Network Engineer
6 7 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Consultant
7 1 (2.38%) Network Consultant
7 1 (2.38%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Technical Support
7 1 (2.38%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.38%) CSS
2 1 (2.38%) HTML
2 1 (2.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 27 (64.29%) Data Loss Prevention
2 27 (64.29%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 4 (9.52%) Change Management
4 3 (7.14%) Incident Response
4 3 (7.14%) Inventory Management
5 2 (4.76%) Asset Management
5 2 (4.76%) Data Protection
5 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (4.76%) Network Architecture
5 2 (4.76%) SIEM
5 2 (4.76%) Strategic Planning
5 2 (4.76%) Validation
5 2 (4.76%) Zero Trust
6 1 (2.38%) High Availability
6 1 (2.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (2.38%) ITSM
6 1 (2.38%) Migration
6 1 (2.38%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (2.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) CCNP
2 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) CCIE
4 1 (2.38%) CCNA
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 19 (45.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (42.86%) Firmware
3 9 (21.43%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.76%) ProxySG
5 1 (2.38%) Docker
5 1 (2.38%) Snort
5 1 (2.38%) Squid
5 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Ansible
2 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Nessus
2 1 (2.38%) Nexpose
2 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.38%) Suricata
Vendors
1 34 (80.95%) F5
2 28 (66.67%) McAfee
2 28 (66.67%) VMware
3 18 (42.86%) NetApp
4 7 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 7 (16.67%) Cisco
4 7 (16.67%) Zscaler
5 4 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 4 (9.52%) Juniper
5 4 (9.52%) Netskope
5 4 (9.52%) Palo Alto
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.76%) Symantec
8 1 (2.38%) Aruba
8 1 (2.38%) Broadcom
8 1 (2.38%) Google
8 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.38%) Qualys
8 1 (2.38%) Radware
8 1 (2.38%) Splunk