Blue Team Contracts in the UK excluding London

Blue Teaming
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Blue Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blue Team over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 433 -
Rank change year-on-year +57 - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 6 19 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.081% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.090% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £508 £553 -
25th Percentile £519 £585 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £586 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £641 - -
90th Percentile £736 £624 -
UK median daily rate £550 £606 £500
% change year-on-year -9.17% +21.10% -13.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Blue Team is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,192 21,035 27,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.42% 89.50% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 14,534 19,060
10th Percentile £250 £256 £237
25th Percentile £379 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,280 1,365
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.55
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the UK excluding London

Blue Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Blue Team in the UK excluding London

Blue Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Team in the UK excluding London

Blue Team
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 Team within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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 West +17 3 £525 -19.23% 2
East of England - 2 £750 -
South East +14 1 £575 -
Blue Team
UK

Blue Team
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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (16.67%) CSOC
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (83.33%) Security Operations
1 5 (83.33%) SIEM
2 4 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Red Team
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (16.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco