Blue Coat Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Blue Coat
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 338 423
Rank change year-on-year +38 +85 +174
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 4 7 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.046% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.088% 0.11% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 38
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile £408 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -21.74% +31.43%
75th Percentile £423 £475 £650
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £438 £460 £538
% change year-on-year -4.89% -14.42% +16.22%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Blue Coat
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Blue Coat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Blue Coat trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Blue Coat.

Blue Coat daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Akamai
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) DMVPN
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) GLBP
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCDP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) NetScout
3 2 (50.00%) Splunk
4 1 (25.00%) Arista
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
4 1 (25.00%) Zscaler