Blue Coat Contracts

Blue Coat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 569 617
Rank change year-on-year +58 +48 +179
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 8 31 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.071% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.058% 0.17% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 60
10th Percentile £409 £390 £456
25th Percentile £411 £431 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £460 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -14.42% +16.22%
75th Percentile £494 £533 £650
90th Percentile £573 £586 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -7.61% -8.00% -9.09%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £48.75

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Blue Coat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat.

Daily rate trend for Blue Coat in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Coat over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Coat in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat.

Hourly rate trend for Blue Coat in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +42 8 £438 -4.89% 4
Work from Home +47 4 £415 -7.78% 1
UK excluding London +36 4 £425 -7.61% 1
London +30 4 £450 - 3
North of England +29 2 £525 -
East of England +33 1 - -
South East +26 1 £415 -9.78%
North West +11 1 £425 -
Yorkshire - 1 £625 -

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (12.50%) Akamai
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 2 (25.00%) BGP
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (25.00%) DMVPN
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) HTTP
3 2 (25.00%) Internet
3 2 (25.00%) IPsec
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) SSL
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 2 (25.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
4 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 1 (12.50%) RIP
4 1 (12.50%) SNMP
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Business Development
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (12.50%) Due Diligence
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
3 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CCDP
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) F5
2 4 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (50.00%) Juniper
3 3 (37.50%) Zscaler
4 2 (25.00%) Arista
4 2 (25.00%) NetScout
4 2 (25.00%) Splunk
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix
5 1 (12.50%) McAfee
5 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (12.50%) Riverbed
5 1 (12.50%) Symantec