Blue Coat Engineer Contract Job Trends

Blue Coat Engineer
UK

The median Blue Coat Engineer daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 - 593
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Blue Coat Engineer 17 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% - 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% - 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 36,763 28,770 41,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 92.92% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,120 17,782 27,516
10th Percentile £303 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +0.42% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 824 2,307
10th Percentile £14.61 £16.00 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.40
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -2.23%
75th Percentile £61.84 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% -9.26% -

Blue Coat Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Blue Coat Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Blue Coat Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Blue Coat Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Blue Coat Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Blue Coat Engineer
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
England - 17 £400 - 1
UK excluding London - 16 £400 - 1
North of England - 15 - -
Midlands - 15 - - 1
North West - 15 - -
West Midlands - 15 - - 1
Work from Home - 2 £400 -
East of England - 1 £400 -
London - 1 £400 -

Blue Coat Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 February 2026, Blue Coat Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Blue Coat Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 17 (100.00%) SSL
2 15 (88.24%) BIG-IP
2 15 (88.24%) Data Loss Prevention
2 15 (88.24%) DNS
2 15 (88.24%) F5
2 15 (88.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 15 (88.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 15 (88.24%) Fiddler
2 15 (88.24%) Firmware
2 15 (88.24%) HTTP
2 15 (88.24%) Load Balancing
2 15 (88.24%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 15 (88.24%) McAfee
2 15 (88.24%) NetApp
2 15 (88.24%) TCP/IP
2 15 (88.24%) VMware
2 15 (88.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (88.24%) Wireshark
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (11.76%) LAN
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) ProxySG
3 2 (11.76%) User Experience
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) Web Filtering
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible

Blue Coat Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 17 (100.00%) SSL
2 15 (88.24%) BIG-IP
2 15 (88.24%) DNS
2 15 (88.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 15 (88.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 15 (88.24%) HTTP
2 15 (88.24%) TCP/IP
2 15 (88.24%) Wireshark
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) LAN
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
4 1 (5.88%) DMZ
Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) Fiddler
General
1 15 (88.24%) Banking
1 15 (88.24%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 15 (88.24%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Data Loss Prevention
1 15 (88.24%) Load Balancing
1 15 (88.24%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.76%) User Experience
2 2 (11.76%) Web Filtering
3 1 (5.88%) Migration
3 1 (5.88%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Firmware
1 15 (88.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 15 (88.24%) F5
2 15 (88.24%) McAfee
2 15 (88.24%) NetApp
2 15 (88.24%) VMware