Blue Team Contracts in the UK excluding London

Blue Teaming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Blue Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blue Team over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 - 410
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Blue Team 3 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% - 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% - 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £570 - £520
25th Percentile £638 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £585
75th Percentile £844 - £586
90th Percentile £900 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £590 £585
% change year-on-year -19.49% +0.85% +17.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,696 15,025 19,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.15% 82.65% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 8,942 12,792
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £367 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,398 1,427 1,220
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +6.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.02 £75.00 £76.99
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -3.67% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Team in the UK excluding London

Blue Team
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 Team within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East - 2 £813 - 4
North of England - 1 £550 - 5
North West - 1 £550 - 4
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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 1 (33.33%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Red Team
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Purple Team
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CHECK Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CREST Certified
1 1 (33.33%) GCED
1 1 (33.33%) GCIA
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk