ProxySG Contract Job Trends

Blue Coat Proxy SG
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ProxySG skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 553 611
Rank change year-on-year -3 +58 +162
Contract jobs citing ProxySG 1 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.023% 0.042%
As % of the System Software category 0.026% 0.20% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 18
10th Percentile - £384 £456
25th Percentile - £400 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £431 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -20.28% -1.65%
75th Percentile - £469 £613
90th Percentile - - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate - £463 £592
% change year-on-year - -21.81% +31.44%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,900 4,405 6,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 11.43% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,461 2,959 4,379
10th Percentile £218 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £670 £688 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 111 272
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.02 £17.69 £19.22
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -50.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.19 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.05 £75.00 £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £28.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +126.09% -28.13% +100.00%

ProxySG
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ProxySG in the UK

ProxySG
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ProxySG
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

ProxySG
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 September 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
UK excluding London +4 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

ProxySG
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec