Blue Coat Contracts in Scotland

Blue Coat
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 125 163
Rank change year-on-year +9 +38 -
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.046% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.11% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
75th Percentile - - £509
90th Percentile - - £526
UK median daily rate £425 £460 £538
% change year-on-year -7.61% -14.42% +19.44%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 725 873 1,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.70% 40.19% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 532 811
10th Percentile £234 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £455 £473
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -3.75% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £539
90th Percentile £613 £686 £638
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 53 17
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.08 £21.07
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £21.67
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -69.57% +43.75%
75th Percentile £24.58 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.08 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.82% -48.06% +97.67%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in Scotland

Blue Coat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Blue Coat in Scotland

Blue Coat
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Edinburgh +3 1 - -
Blue Coat
UK

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec