Blue Coat Contracts in London

Blue Coat
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 386 439
Rank change year-on-year +37 +53 +152
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 4 9 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.051% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.070% 0.12% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 38
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -24.21% +31.94%
75th Percentile - £475 £650
90th Percentile - £550 -
England median daily rate £438 £460 £550
% change year-on-year -4.89% -16.36% +4.76%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,708 7,239 10,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.36% 40.64% 38.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,747 4,954 7,428
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £655 £658 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 140 128
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.87 £16.30
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 £30.63
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% -22.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £51.22 £36.19 £56.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.88 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Blue Coat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat in London.

Daily rate trend for Blue Coat in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat in London.

Hourly rate trend for Blue Coat in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) RIP
3 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCSA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) NetScout
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee