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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 540 619
Rank change year-on-year -31 +79 +135
Contract jobs citing ProxySG 3 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.030% 0.032%
As % of the System Software category 0.070% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile - £388 £500
25th Percentile - - £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -29.26% +2.81%
75th Percentile £475 £469 £601
90th Percentile £520 - £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £463 £603
% change year-on-year -13.51% -23.27% +9.59%

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 4,261 4,310 6,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.31% 11.80% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,751 2,763 4,137
10th Percentile £206 £213 £198
25th Percentile £378 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 88 252
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.90 £21.46 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.75 £44.00 £44.86
Median % change year-on-year -39.20% -1.92% +90.89%
75th Percentile £67.25 £66.92 £66.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +33.33% +87.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

ProxySG job vacancy trend in the UK

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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

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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

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Top 5 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 6 November 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 -5 3 £400 -13.51% 1
Work from Home +13 2 £400 - 1
London - 2 £450 - 1
UK excluding London -46 1 £400 -13.51%
East of England - 1 £400 -

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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 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) DMZ
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Web Filtering
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) McAfee
2 1 (33.33%) Radware
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec