Blue Team Jobs in England

Blue Teaming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Blue Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Blue Team over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 819 854
Rank change year-on-year +154 +35 +279
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 25 10 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.012% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.014% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 24 4 28
10th Percentile £48,165 £54,875 £61,750
25th Percentile £60,500 £56,563 £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £61,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.53% -27.94% +100.00%
75th Percentile £99,375 £67,813 £98,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £70,625 £105,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £61,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.53% -27.94% +83.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Blue Team falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,536 73,513 84,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.12% 85.20% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,795 53,935 50,179
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Blue Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in England

Blue Team
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Blue Team in England.

Salary trend for Blue Team in England

Blue Team
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blue Team in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Blue Team in England

Blue Team
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Team within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +123 13 £90,000 +28.57% 2
East of England - 7 £62,000 - 7
South West +113 3 £51,058 - 1
Yorkshire +57 1 £45,000 -28.00% 1
North of England +37 1 £45,000 -25.00% 3
Midlands - 1 £36,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £36,000 -
Blue Team
UK

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) Firewall
2 7 (28.00%) FTP
2 7 (28.00%) HTTP
2 7 (28.00%) LAN
2 7 (28.00%) Network Security
2 7 (28.00%) SMTP
2 7 (28.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (28.00%) VPN
2 7 (28.00%) WAN
3 6 (24.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Retail
3 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Lead
2 8 (32.00%) Consultant
2 8 (32.00%) Security Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Security Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Security Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Forensic Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 8 (32.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (28.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (4.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Red Team
2 11 (44.00%) Offensive Security
3 10 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 9 (36.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 9 (36.00%) SIEM
5 8 (32.00%) Presales
5 8 (32.00%) Purple Team
6 7 (28.00%) Malware Analysis
6 7 (28.00%) People Management
6 7 (28.00%) Reverse Engineering
6 7 (28.00%) Use Case
7 6 (24.00%) Line Management
8 5 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (16.00%) Penetration Testing
10 3 (12.00%) Social Engineering
11 2 (8.00%) Forensic Analysis
11 2 (8.00%) Microservices
11 2 (8.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Bash
1 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) C++
2 6 (24.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) DV Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) CCSAS
4 4 (16.00%) CCSAM
4 4 (16.00%) CHECK Team Leader
4 4 (16.00%) CREST Certified
4 4 (16.00%) Degree
5 3 (12.00%) CISSP
5 3 (12.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (12.00%) OSCP
6 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (8.00%) CISM
7 1 (4.00%) CEH
7 1 (4.00%) GCIA
7 1 (4.00%) GCIH
7 1 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) QRadar
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) Sun
4 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.00%) Qualys