Blue Coat Contracts in the UK excluding London

Blue Coat
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 May 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 366 427
Rank change year-on-year +35 +61 +63
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 5 22 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.11% 0.096%
As % of the Vendors category 0.080% 0.25% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 15
10th Percentile £409 £450 £420
25th Percentile £410 £455 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £531 £553 £555
90th Percentile £588 £578 £569
UK median daily rate £425 £460 £538
% change year-on-year -7.61% -14.42% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.63
25th Percentile - - £47.19
Median hourly rate - - £48.75
75th Percentile - - £49.69
90th Percentile - - £49.88
UK median hourly rate - - £48.75

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,226 8,743 10,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.67% 42.53% 44.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,947 5,273 7,261
10th Percentile £217 £206 £205
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 950 480
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.67
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -42.77% +100.53%
75th Percentile £58.73 £59.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.13 £70.00 £70.03
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.08 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.82% -48.06% +97.67%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Blue Coat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in the UK excluding London

Blue Coat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Blue Coat in the UK excluding London

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Coat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Coat in the UK excluding London

Blue Coat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Blue Coat in the UK excluding London

Blue Coat
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
North of England +18 2 £525 -
East of England +27 1 - -
South East +18 1 £415 -9.78%
North West +11 1 £425 -
Scotland +9 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £625 -
Blue Coat
UK

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Akamai
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (40.00%) DMVPN
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
1 2 (40.00%) IPsec
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (20.00%) DWDM
2 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (20.00%) GLBP
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) Multicast
2 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Development
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
3 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (20.00%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCDP
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) F5
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 3 (60.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (40.00%) Arista
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (40.00%) Symantec
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (20.00%) Riverbed