Blue Team Contracts in the South East

Blue Teaming
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Blue Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blue Team over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 203 214
Rank change year-on-year +54 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.034% 0.018% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.021% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% - -
England median daily rate £688 £563 £586
% change year-on-year +22.22% -4.01% +17.20%

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 2,726 4,709 5,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.42% 82.69% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,739 2,713 3,452
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £660 £700 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 465 221
10th Percentile £13.22 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.32 £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +138.96%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.94 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% +4.17% +41.18%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Blue Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the South East

Blue Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue Team in the South East.

Daily rate trend 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 10 June 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 +31 1 £750 +30.43% 1
Berkshire +20 1 £750 +30.43% 1
Blue Team
England

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCED
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk