Blue Team Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Blue Teaming
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Blue Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 119 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.097% 0.049% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.056% -
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 - -
South East median daily rate £613 £500 -
% change year-on-year +22.63% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,816 1,793 2,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.86% 88.67% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,051 1,470
10th Percentile £268 £298 £213
25th Percentile £400 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 54 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.92 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.35 £29.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.49% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.09 £69.03 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Blue Team job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Blue Team
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Blue Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Team in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Team in the Thames Valley

Blue Team
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 Team within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 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
Berkshire -4 1 £351 -29.75%
Oxfordshire - 1 £875 -
Blue Team
South East

Blue Team
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:

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%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
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