Blue Team Job Trends in Kent

Blue Teaming
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Blue Team skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.056% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median annual salary £75,000 - £50,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,245 561 799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 70.10% 73.82% 76.83%
Number of salaries quoted 864 353 411
10th Percentile £27,325 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £39,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -22.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Blue Team
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Team within the Kent region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sandwich - 1 - -
Blue Team
South East

Blue Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Snort
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware