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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 525 585
Rank change year-on-year -119 +60 +68
Contract jobs citing ProxySG 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.011%
As % of the System Software category 0.041% 0.028% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 - £460
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.75%
75th Percentile - - £465
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £653 - £460
% change year-on-year - - -0.54%

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 4,872 3,605 4,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 12.27% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,240 2,387 3,299
10th Percentile £213 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £386 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £697 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 85 226
10th Percentile £15.94 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.45 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -43.18%

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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 10 June 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 - 2 £653 -
UK excluding London -92 1 £653 -
North of England - 1 £653 -
Work from Home - 1 £653 -
North West - 1 £653 -

ProxySG
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 2 (100.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Junos
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Police
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler