Blue Team Jobs in the North of England

Blue Teaming
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Blue Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Blue Team over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 435 445
Rank change year-on-year +49 +10 -80
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 7 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.040% 0.017% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.018% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £54,250 £55,800 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,875 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -15.00% +88.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £65,750 - -
England median annual salary £61,250 £76,250 £46,250
% change year-on-year -19.67% +64.86% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Blue Team is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,483 16,940 16,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.70% 96.88% 93.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,118 8,087 10,794
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the North of England

Blue Team
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Blue Team in the North of England

Blue Team
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire - 6 £62,500 - 2
North West +11 1 £57,500 -15.44%
Blue Team
England

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DMZ
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
1 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) SMTP
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) tcpdump
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
1 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Games
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Information Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Red Team
4 3 (42.86%) Application Security
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 2 (28.57%) Malware Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Network Design
5 2 (28.57%) Network Packet Capture
5 2 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (28.57%) CASP
2 2 (28.57%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (28.57%) CREST Certified
2 2 (28.57%) GCFA
2 2 (28.57%) GCIH
2 2 (28.57%) Linux+ Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) GCFE
3 1 (14.29%) GCIA
3 1 (14.29%) GIAC
3 1 (14.29%) GREM
3 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft