Blue Coat Contracts in Merseyside

Blue Coat
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 18 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
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 22 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 1 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.56% 3.08% 1.54%
As % of the Vendors category 1.19% 6.82% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - £575
% change year-on-year - - +27.78%

All Vendors
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 84 88 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 47.19% 45.13% 44.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 47 71
10th Percentile £204 £197 £188
25th Percentile £400 £213 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -19.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £461 £534
90th Percentile £775 £545 £600
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.38% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile - £21.69 -
25th Percentile - £27.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £36.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +105.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £38.00 £18.75
90th Percentile - £39.20 £19.20
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £16.06 £33.00
% change year-on-year +56.57% -51.33% +63.93%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in Merseyside

Blue Coat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Blue Coat in Merseyside

Blue Coat
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool -10 1 - -
Blue Coat
North West

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Fiddler
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp