Blue Team Jobs in the South West

Blue Teaming
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 292 -
Rank change year-on-year +120 - -
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.084% 0.011% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.013% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,165 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 - -
75th Percentile £63,226 - -
90th Percentile £68,790 - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £61,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.53% -27.94% +100.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,324 7,721 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.29% 83.42% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 5,559 3,544
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the South West

Blue Team
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Blue Team in the South West.

Salary trend for Blue Team in the South West

Blue Team
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blue Team in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Blue Team in the South West

Blue Team
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Team within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Wiltshire - 3 £51,058 -
Blue Team
England

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Forensic Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Red Team
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CISM
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes