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 23 August 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
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 494 552
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 +136
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Blue Coat 14 30 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.050% 0.090% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.21% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 46
10th Percentile £350 £369 £425
25th Percentile £353 £435 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.85% -4.65% +1.42%
75th Percentile £538 £579 £593
90th Percentile £588 £599 £650
UK median daily rate £380 £481 £525
% change year-on-year -21.04% -8.33% +5.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,104 14,448 19,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.24% 43.56% 43.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,283 9,144 12,801
10th Percentile £273 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £616 £628 £650
90th Percentile £715 £732 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 706 591
10th Percentile £14.75 £13.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.51 £15.62 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% -22.60% +62.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.55% -31.25% +81.82%

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
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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Coat in England over the 6 months to 23 August 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

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DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +14 7 £575 +4.55% 2
Midlands -9 7 £368 - 2
West Midlands - 7 £368 - 2
North West -10 1 - -
North of England -23 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 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (14.29%) Cloudflare
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
1 2 (14.29%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Firewall
1 10 (71.43%) SSL
2 7 (50.00%) DNS
3 6 (42.86%) Cisco IPT
3 6 (42.86%) DMVPN
3 6 (42.86%) IPsec
3 6 (42.86%) VPN
3 6 (42.86%) WAN
3 6 (42.86%) Wireless
4 4 (28.57%) HTTP
4 4 (28.57%) Network Security
4 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 3 (21.43%) Wireshark
6 1 (7.14%) BIG-IP
6 1 (7.14%) DMZ
6 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Fiddler
General
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Change Management
1 6 (42.86%) Inventory Management
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (21.43%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
3 3 (21.43%) Web Filtering
4 2 (14.29%) Hyperautomation
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 2 (14.29%) SIEM
4 2 (14.29%) SOAR
4 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security
5 1 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) Snort
1 2 (14.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Nessus
2 2 (14.29%) Nexpose
2 2 (14.29%) Suricata
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) F5
2 8 (57.14%) CheckPoint
2 8 (57.14%) Cisco
3 6 (42.86%) Juniper
4 4 (28.57%) Fortinet
4 4 (28.57%) Splunk
5 3 (21.43%) Symantec
6 2 (14.29%) Carbon Black
6 2 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (14.29%) FireEye
6 2 (14.29%) Google
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (14.29%) NetScout
6 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 2 (14.29%) Qualys
6 2 (14.29%) Zscaler
7 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
7 1 (7.14%) McAfee
7 1 (7.14%) NetApp