Blue Team Contract Job Trends in Preston

Blue Teaming
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston 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 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 2.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £800 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £700 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 60 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 80.95% 92.31% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 37 17
10th Percentile £210 £285 £350
25th Percentile £550 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £530 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% +11.58% +18.01%
75th Percentile £762 £570 £593
90th Percentile £900 £643 £728
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +2.23% +0.09% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 41
10th Percentile £39.53 £24.76 £13.73
25th Percentile £41.34 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £42.31 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +47.17% +79.02% -61.34%
75th Percentile £68.94 £31.07 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £43.39 £50.00
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +58.12% -36.11% +5.88%

Blue Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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
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