Blue Team Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Blue Teaming
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Blue Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.78% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £800 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £700 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 138 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 82.35% 89.03% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 73 81
10th Percentile £160 £353 £313
25th Percentile £317 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +0.09% -0.46%
75th Percentile £679 £588 £656
90th Percentile £779 £630 £740
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 20 63
10th Percentile £35.15 £14.76 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £24.32 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.12% -36.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £71.50 £44.92 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £48.43
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £22.50
% change year-on-year +41.69% +41.16% -39.84%

Blue Team
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Preston - 2 £700 - 1
Blue Team
North West

Blue Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared