Blue Coat Contract Job Trends in the South East

Blue Coat
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 October 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
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 164 211
Rank change year-on-year -5 +47 +46
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 2 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.054% 0.29% 0.073%
As % of the Vendors category 0.10% 0.58% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £408 £388 £529
25th Percentile £419 £444 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% -0.43%
75th Percentile £494 £750 £614
90th Percentile £513 - £627
England median daily rate £400 £513 £541
% change year-on-year -21.95% -5.26% -1.65%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,930 2,077 2,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.55% 49.48% 52.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,286 1,872
10th Percentile £205 £256 £205
25th Percentile £375 £402 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £613
90th Percentile £650 £697 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 73 132
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £18.84
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.25 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -65.07% +26.63% +97.25%
75th Percentile £33.05 £67.50 £65.06
90th Percentile £73.65 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.04 £35.36 £43.79
% change year-on-year -29.19% -19.26% +75.17%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blue Coat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Blue Coat job vacancy trend in the South East

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Blue Coat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Blue Coat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Berkshire +2 1 £400 -20.00%
Thames Valley +2 1 £400 -20.00%
Hampshire -3 1 £400 -
Surrey -5 1 £500 -33.33%
Blue Coat
England

Blue Coat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) VMware