Blue Team Contracts in England

Blue Teaming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Blue Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blue Team over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 516 592
Rank change year-on-year +12 +76 +178
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Blue Team 9 8 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.024% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.028% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £448 £520 £524
25th Percentile £456 £550 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £590 £585
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +0.85% +17.00%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £599
90th Percentile £788 £719 £623
UK median daily rate £475 £590 £585
% change year-on-year -19.49% +0.85% +17.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Blue Team falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,200 28,440 39,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.84% 85.75% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,048 18,384 27,240
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £753 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,475 1,543 1,389
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +0.73% +56.26%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.01% +56.38%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in England

Blue Team
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blue Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blue Team

Blue Team
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Team in England over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Team in England

Blue Team
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 Team 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 6 £469 -20.55% 13
South East - 2 £813 - 4
North of England - 1 £550 - 5
North West - 1 £550 - 4
Blue Team
UK

Blue Team
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 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Tester
3 1 (11.11%) SOC Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Red Team
2 7 (77.78%) Incident Response
2 7 (77.78%) SIEM
3 6 (66.67%) Purple Team
4 5 (55.56%) ITSM
5 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 3 (33.33%) Use Case
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
6 2 (22.22%) SOAR
7 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
7 1 (11.11%) Coaching
7 1 (11.11%) Data Privacy
7 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 1 (11.11%) Resilience Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
7 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) CISM
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) CREST Certified
3 1 (11.11%) GCED
3 1 (11.11%) GCIA
3 1 (11.11%) SANS
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Citrix
2 5 (55.56%) Forcepoint
2 5 (55.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk