Blue Coat Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Blue Coat
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Blue Coat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blue Coat over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 - 123
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 13 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.71% - 0.048%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% - 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £353 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £383 - -
England median daily rate £380 £494 £538
% change year-on-year -23.04% -8.14% +1.42%

All Vendors
West Midlands

Blue Coat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 925 879 1,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 50.55% 46.26% 50.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 583 649
10th Percentile £235 £250 £219
25th Percentile £380 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £600
90th Percentile £639 £713 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 17
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.40 £17.30
25th Percentile £28.11 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% +34.33%
75th Percentile £46.63 £48.75 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £59.00 £46.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Blue Coat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in the West Midlands

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Blue Coat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Blue Coat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Warwickshire - 9 £380 - 2
Birmingham - 4 - - 1
Blue Coat
England

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) SSL
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco IPT
2 9 (69.23%) DMVPN
2 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 9 (69.23%) IPsec
2 9 (69.23%) VPN
2 9 (69.23%) WAN
2 9 (69.23%) Wireless
3 6 (46.15%) Network Security
4 4 (30.77%) BIG-IP
4 4 (30.77%) DMZ
4 4 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 4 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (30.77%) HTTP
4 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 4 (30.77%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Fiddler
General
1 6 (46.15%) Telecoms
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Network Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Security Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Python Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Junior
4 3 (23.08%) Junior Network Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Principal Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 4 (30.77%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Change Management
1 9 (69.23%) Inventory Management
2 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) F5
2 9 (69.23%) CheckPoint
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco
2 9 (69.23%) Juniper
3 4 (30.77%) McAfee
3 4 (30.77%) NetApp
4 1 (7.69%) Infoblox