Blue Team Job Trends in London

Blue Teaming
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Blue Team skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 410 431
Rank change year-on-year +29 +21 +249
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 14 15 5
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.10% 0.095% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £90,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -7.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,875 £112,500 -
England median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% - +2.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Blue Team relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Blue Team job vacancy trend in London

Blue Team
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Blue Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Blue Team

Blue Team
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blue Team in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Blue Team in London

Blue Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Cloudflare
5 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (14.29%) Pulumi
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Wireshark
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) DSL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Burp Suite
1 3 (21.43%) Metasploit
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Financial Institution
3 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (28.57%) Law
3 4 (28.57%) Retail
4 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Forensic Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Incident Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Information Security Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Principal Security Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (28.57%) Cyberattack
1 4 (28.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (28.57%) Insider Threat
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Mac OS
2 4 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Red Team
2 13 (92.86%) Cloud Security
2 13 (92.86%) Threat Modelling
3 10 (71.43%) Incident Response
4 9 (64.29%) Threat Intelligence
5 8 (57.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 8 (57.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 7 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 7 (50.00%) Purple Team
6 7 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
7 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (35.71%) Reverse Engineering
9 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (28.57%) Digital Forensics
9 4 (28.57%) Resilience Testing
9 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
9 4 (28.57%) SIEM
9 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
9 4 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Kotlin
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Go
3 2 (14.29%) Rust
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) GCIH
2 6 (42.86%) OSCP
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 4 (28.57%) CREST Certified
3 4 (28.57%) GCFA
3 4 (28.57%) GCIA
3 4 (28.57%) OSCE
4 3 (21.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (21.43%) CCSP
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (21.43%) CISSP
5 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) GDPR
1 7 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (35.71%) NIST
3 4 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (28.57%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Nmap
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Rapid7