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 with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Blue Coat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blue Coat over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 435 494
Rank change year-on-year +67 +59 -108
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 22 24 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.099% 0.068%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 14
10th Percentile £450 £420 £375
25th Percentile £455 £456 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £553 £555 £636
90th Percentile £578 £569 £705
UK median daily rate £460 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -14.42% +13.16% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £48.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £48.75 -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Blue Coat is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,921 10,769 12,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.94% 44.61% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,362 7,418 8,350
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 940 490 645
10th Percentile £11.79 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.73 £13.89
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.70% -0.48%
75th Percentile £58.54 £63.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -47.88% +102.38% -6.50%

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
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 26 April 2024. 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
South East +39 18 £460 -16.36% 2
Scotland +31 2 - -
West Midlands +26 1 - -
North of England +22 1 - -
Midlands +20 1 - -
North West +15 1 - -
East of England - 1 £450 - 8
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (72.73%) VPN
2 15 (68.18%) Firewall
3 11 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (40.91%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (40.91%) DMZ
5 8 (36.36%) Network Security
6 7 (31.82%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (31.82%) WAN
7 6 (27.27%) LAN
7 6 (27.27%) Wireless
8 4 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (4.55%) BGP
9 1 (4.55%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (4.55%) OSPF
9 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
9 1 (4.55%) Skype
9 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
9 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
General
1 9 (40.91%) Banking
1 9 (40.91%) Investment Banking
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Network Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Cisco Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Architectural Patterns
1 9 (40.91%) Change Control
1 9 (40.91%) Design Patterns
1 9 (40.91%) High Availability
1 9 (40.91%) ITSM
2 6 (27.27%) Incident Management
2 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Service Management
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
3 1 (4.55%) Network Design
3 1 (4.55%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) CCNP
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (27.27%) CCSA
2 6 (27.27%) JNCIA
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) CheckPoint
1 21 (95.45%) Cisco
2 16 (72.73%) Juniper
3 10 (45.45%) Fortinet
4 8 (36.36%) Palo Alto
5 5 (22.73%) F5
6 1 (4.55%) Arista
6 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.55%) McAfee
6 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.55%) VMware