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 27 August 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 338 396
Rank change year-on-year -25 +58 +95
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Blue Coat 8 26 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.33% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 20
10th Percentile £350 £363 £456
25th Percentile £351 £433 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £463 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -19.57% +17.95%
75th Percentile £380 £541 £594
90th Percentile - £638 £632
UK median daily rate £380 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -17.84% -11.90% +0.48%
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,355 7,848 10,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.81% 43.21% 46.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,491 4,698 6,526
10th Percentile £217 £213 £206
25th Percentile £361 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 616 667 503
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.62 £14.72
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.10 £17.89
Median hourly rate £21.29 £26.03 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.21% -24.55% +74.15%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.60 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -10.18% -32.53% +88.64%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Blue Coat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Blue Coat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -11 7 £368 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £368 - 1
Scotland -3 1 - -
North West -12 1 - -
North of England -23 1 - -
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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) SSL
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco IPT
2 6 (75.00%) DMVPN
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) IPsec
2 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 6 (75.00%) Wireless
3 3 (37.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
4 1 (12.50%) DMZ
4 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (12.50%) HTTP
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Fiddler
General
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Principal Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Junior
5 1 (12.50%) Junior Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Change Management
1 6 (75.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) F5
2 6 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) McAfee
3 1 (12.50%) NetApp
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec