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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 542 613
Rank change year-on-year -26 +71 +158
Contract jobs citing ProxySG 3 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.030% 0.031%
As % of the System Software category 0.072% 0.26% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 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 - £469 £601
90th Percentile - - £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 4,143 4,301 6,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.31% 11.67% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,644 2,776 4,234
10th Percentile £208 £215 £198
25th Percentile £378 £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 £700 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 88 251
10th Percentile £15.09 £16.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.41 £18.39
Median hourly rate £26.75 £44.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.20% -4.35% +95.74%
75th Percentile £67.19 £70.00 £67.94
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% +100.00%

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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 6 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 26 October 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
Work from Home +16 2 £400 - 2
England -5 2 £400 -13.51% 2
UK excluding London -26 2 £400 -13.51% 1
London - 1 £400 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -
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 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
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%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec