Blue Team Jobs in the UK excluding London

Blue Teaming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 573 755 698
Rank change year-on-year +182 -57 +145
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 12 8 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.011% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.013% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £45,000 £54,250 £60,925
25th Percentile £48,165 £55,000 £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -11.76% +58.14%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £72,750
90th Percentile - £65,750 £84,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £61,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.53% -27.94% +83.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,325 59,458 57,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.91% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,834 41,124 29,354
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,128 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blue Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram 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 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
East of England - 7 £62,000 - 7
South West +120 3 £51,058 - 1
Yorkshire +60 1 £45,000 -28.00% 1
North of England +50 1 £45,000 -25.00% 4
Midlands - 1 £36,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £36,000 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) FTP
2 7 (58.33%) HTTP
2 7 (58.33%) LAN
2 7 (58.33%) Network Security
2 7 (58.33%) SMTP
2 7 (58.33%) TCP/IP
2 7 (58.33%) VPN
2 7 (58.33%) WAN
3 6 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (58.33%) Client/Server
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (8.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Security Operations
2 9 (75.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 9 (75.00%) SIEM
3 7 (58.33%) Malware Analysis
3 7 (58.33%) People Management
3 7 (58.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Use Case
4 6 (50.00%) Line Management
5 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 2 (16.67%) Forensic Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Information Security
6 2 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Bash
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) C++
2 6 (50.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (25.00%) CISSP
4 3 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (16.67%) CISM
6 1 (8.33%) CEH
6 1 (8.33%) CREST Certified
6 1 (8.33%) GCIA
6 1 (8.33%) GCIH
6 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) QRadar
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (8.33%) Qualys