Blue Team Contracts

Blue Teaming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 583 674
Rank change year-on-year +67 +91 +176
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 4 15 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.034% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.040% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 15
10th Percentile - £488 £539
25th Percentile £413 £494 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £669
90th Percentile £598 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - £563 £586
% change year-on-year - -4.01% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,648 37,562 53,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,170 24,188 37,115
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,066 2,451 1,742
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the UK

Blue Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Blue Team in the UK

Blue Team
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Team over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Team in the UK

Blue Team
Top 4 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +44 4 £425 -22.73% 13
London +38 3 £425 -27.97% 1
UK excluding London +55 1 - - 13
South West +41 1 - -

Blue Team
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Advertising
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Red Team
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) SOAR
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk