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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 507 583
Rank change year-on-year -76 +76 +131
Contract jobs citing ProxySG 5 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.028% 0.019%
As % of the System Software category 0.11% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile - £381 £551
25th Percentile £400 - £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £593
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -32.55% +7.82%
75th Percentile £550 £469 £624
90th Percentile £580 - £648
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 4,424 3,764 5,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.16% 11.84% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 2,434 3,572
10th Percentile £213 £203 £190
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £602
90th Percentile £700 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £461
% change year-on-year +2.70% +0.29% -0.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 91 217
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.15 £18.95
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.41 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.19% -45.89% +75.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.90 £75.00 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.50 £35.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year +67.14% -34.58% +167.50%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ProxySG over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ProxySG in the UK

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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 11 January 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 -45 5 £500 +8.11%
Work from Home -8 3 £400 -
London - 3 £500 -
UK excluding London -62 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 4 (80.00%) Network Security
1 4 (80.00%) SSL
2 2 (40.00%) DMZ
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) User Experience
1 2 (40.00%) Web Filtering
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Blue Coat
2 3 (60.00%) Symantec
3 2 (40.00%) F5
3 2 (40.00%) McAfee
3 2 (40.00%) Radware
4 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
4 1 (20.00%) Netskope