Blue Coat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Blue Coat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Blue Coat over the 6 months to 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 717 1054 1006
Rank change year-on-year +337 -48 -290
Permanent jobs citing Blue Coat 12 24 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.020% 0.050%
As % of the Vendors category 0.055% 0.048% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 19 30
10th Percentile £54,500 £28,019 £44,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £35,000 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £43,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +109.30% -25.22% -20.69%
75th Percentile - £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile - £93,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £43,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +33.72% -25.22% +36.90%

All Vendors
UK

Blue Coat is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,885 50,331 50,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.97% 41.07% 39.29%
Number of salaries quoted 16,046 29,646 33,482
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Blue Coat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in the UK

Blue Coat
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat.

Salary trend for Blue Coat in the UK

Blue Coat
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blue Coat over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Blue Coat in the UK

Blue Coat
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat within the UK over the 6 months to 9 December 2023. 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
Work from Home +266 11 £90,000 +139.41%
England +340 9 £57,500 +43.75% 4
UK excluding London +236 7 £57,500 +33.72% 1
North of England +141 5 - -
North West +129 5 - -
East of England +122 1 £50,000 -
South West - 1 £65,000 -

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (58.33%) Azure
1 7 (58.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (66.67%) SD-WAN
3 7 (58.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 7 (58.33%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (58.33%) Ethernet
3 7 (58.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 7 (58.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (58.33%) LAN
3 7 (58.33%) NX-OS
3 7 (58.33%) WAN
4 4 (33.33%) Network Security
4 4 (33.33%) VPN
5 3 (25.00%) Internet
6 1 (8.33%) BGP
6 1 (8.33%) DHCP
6 1 (8.33%) DNS
6 1 (8.33%) MPLS
6 1 (8.33%) OSPF
6 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Law
1 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
1 7 (58.33%) Network Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Data Centre
1 7 (58.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Digital Engineering
1 7 (58.33%) Due Diligence
1 7 (58.33%) People Management
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (25.00%) Presales
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Cryptography
3 1 (8.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) CCIE
2 5 (41.67%) CCNP
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (25.00%) CCIE Security
3 3 (25.00%) CCSP
3 3 (25.00%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (8.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (58.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
1 7 (58.33%) FortiGate
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (91.67%) Fortinet
3 8 (66.67%) F5
3 8 (66.67%) VMware
4 7 (58.33%) CA
4 7 (58.33%) Google
4 7 (58.33%) SolarWinds
5 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
5 4 (33.33%) Zscaler
6 3 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (25.00%) Netskope
6 3 (25.00%) Symantec
7 2 (16.67%) Infoblox
8 1 (8.33%) Arista
8 1 (8.33%) Aruba
8 1 (8.33%) Juniper
8 1 (8.33%) Meraki
8 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
8 1 (8.33%) Riverbed