Blue Team Jobs in the UK excluding London

Blue Teaming
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 752 700 840
Rank change year-on-year -52 +140 -165
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 10 56 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.091% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.095% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 6
10th Percentile £54,250 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £64,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +88.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,750 £77,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £61,250 £75,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.33% +76.47% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,192 58,753 66,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 95.62% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 41,002 30,145 41,524
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Blue Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the UK excluding London

Blue Team
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Blue Team in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Blue Team in the UK excluding London

Blue Team
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Team within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
North of England +40 7 £60,000 -11.76% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £62,500 - 2
Wales +3 2 - -
North West +14 1 £57,500 -15.44%
South West - 1 - - 1
Blue Team
UK

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
1 4 (40.00%) Internet
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
1 4 (40.00%) SMTP
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) DMZ
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) FTP
2 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) Sourcefire
2 2 (20.00%) tcpdump
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Games
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Information Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (50.00%) Red Team
3 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (40.00%) SIEM
5 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (30.00%) Application Security
5 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) SDLC
5 3 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (20.00%) Offensive Security
6 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (20.00%) Purple Team
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) CREST Certified
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (20.00%) CASP
3 2 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (20.00%) GCFA
3 2 (20.00%) GCIH
3 2 (20.00%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CCSAS
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) GCIA
4 1 (10.00%) GIAC
4 1 (10.00%) GREM
4 1 (10.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (20.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) ArcSight
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) TippingPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Trend Micro