Blue Coat Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Blue Coat Engineer
England > North West

As of 30 September 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Blue Coat Engineer daily rate in the North West.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Blue Coat Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.046% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - £550
% change year-on-year - - +12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 1,989 2,206 2,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 93.59% 92.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,190 1,826
10th Percentile £265 £272 £270
25th Percentile £369 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £594
90th Percentile £684 £670 £673
England median daily rate £512 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -2.52% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 159 166
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.72 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +7.33% +40.07%
75th Percentile £47.12 £55.52 £46.70
90th Percentile £68.84 £74.37 £68.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -44.11% -1.92% +73.48%

Blue Coat Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Blue Coat Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat Engineer in the North West

Blue Coat Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Blue Coat Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Merseyside - 1 - -
Blue Coat Engineer
England

Blue Coat Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 30 September 2025, Blue Coat Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Blue Coat Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

Blue Coat Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware