ProxySG Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Blue Coat Proxy SG
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ProxySG skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 360 409
Rank change year-on-year -26 +49 +95
Contract jobs citing ProxySG 2 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.047% 0.033%
As % of the System Software category 0.092% 0.36% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £395 £589
25th Percentile - £434 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £603
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -23.27% +9.59%
75th Percentile - £469 £627
90th Percentile - - £653
UK median daily rate £400 £400 £565
% change year-on-year - -29.26% +2.81%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

ProxySG falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,179 2,222 3,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.36% 13.14% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,453 1,416 2,125
10th Percentile £190 £190 £173
25th Percentile £305 £340 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £569 £585 £588
90th Percentile £638 £659 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 75 209
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.70 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.33 £21.15 £17.75
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £68.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.75 £44.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -39.20% -4.35% +95.74%

ProxySG
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ProxySG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ProxySG job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ProxySG
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ProxySG
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ProxySG
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 ProxySG within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Scotland - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £400 -
ProxySG
UK

ProxySG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Web Filtering
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec