Blue Team Contracts in London

Blue Teaming
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Blue Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blue Team over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 480 601
Rank change year-on-year +98 +121 -138
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 7 20 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.039% 0.074% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.081% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 1
10th Percentile £513 £541 -
25th Percentile £550 £566 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £638 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +27.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £598 £697 £525
90th Percentile - £700 -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Blue Team is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,769 24,761 35,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 91.14% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,293 17,773 26,130
10th Percentile £338 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 287 421
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.83 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.59 £50.61
90th Percentile £66.25 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in London

Blue Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Blue Team in London

Blue Team
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
South London - 1 - -
Blue Team
England

Blue Team
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Burp Suite
1 3 (42.86%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Information Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Kali Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Red Team
1 5 (71.43%) Security Operations
1 5 (71.43%) Threat Detection
1 5 (71.43%) Use Case
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (14.29%) Escalation Management
4 1 (14.29%) Product Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Darktrace
3 1 (14.29%) Qualys