Blue Coat Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Blue Coat
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 22 July 2026, 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
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 112 114
Rank change year-on-year -51 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 2 1 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.061% 0.060% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.10% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £375
25th Percentile - £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £415 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -17.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile - £423 £638
90th Percentile - - £705
South East median daily rate £380 £415 £460
% change year-on-year -8.43% -9.78% -16.36%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,486 958 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 45.68% 57.71% 47.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 560 697
10th Percentile £303 £302 £232
25th Percentile £420 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -1.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £673 £664 £699
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 62 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £14.02 £14.64
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.20 £18.54
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.87 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +297.46% -60.27% +5.56%
75th Percentile £88.00 £44.33 £61.60
90th Percentile £103.05 £69.75 £65.31
South East median hourly rate £57.00 £19.00 £55.08
% change year-on-year +200.00% -65.50% +22.39%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Blue Coat job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Blue Coat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Blue Coat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 July 2026. 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 -26 2 £380 -8.43% 1
Blue Coat
South East

Blue Coat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IPT
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox