Blue Team Contract Job Trends in the South East

Blue Teaming
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Blue Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 169 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.046% 0.027% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £383 - -
25th Percentile £455 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.63% - -
75th Percentile £795 - -
90th Percentile £880 - -
England median daily rate £475 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% -18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,725 3,287 4,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.18% 88.29% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,436 2,048 2,911
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 126 229
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.67 £17.80
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.06 £26.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £47.51 £54.39
Median % change year-on-year -53.14% -12.64% +45.03%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.32 £65.86
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.93 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Blue Team job vacancy trend in the South East

Blue Team
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Blue Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Team in the South East over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Team in the South East

Blue Team
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 Team within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Thames Valley -10 2 £613 +22.63%
Berkshire -4 1 £351 -29.75%
Oxfordshire - 1 £875 -
Blue Team
England

Blue Team
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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Purple Team
2 1 (50.00%) Red Team
2 1 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (50.00%) GCFA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (50.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk