Blue Team Jobs

Blue Teaming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 874 889
Rank change year-on-year +196 +15 +357
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 24 33 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.032% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.038% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 23 27 27
10th Percentile £48,165 - £61,500
25th Percentile £60,500 - £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -35.48% +55.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 - £98,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £59,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% -26.47% +36.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the UK

Blue Team
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Blue Team in the UK

Blue Team
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blue Team over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Blue Team in the UK

Blue Team
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 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
England +171 24 £70,000 +40.00% 14
UK excluding London +166 12 £62,000 +24.00% 9
London - 11 £90,000 - 5
Work from Home +129 9 £90,000 +50.00% 9
East of England - 7 £62,000 - 4
South West +112 3 £51,058 +2.12% 1
Midlands +63 1 £36,000 -28.00%
West Midlands +55 1 £36,000 -28.00%
Yorkshire +47 1 £45,000 -10.00%
North of England +24 1 £45,000 -10.00% 1

Blue Team
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 (29.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) Firewall
2 7 (29.17%) FTP
2 7 (29.17%) HTTP
2 7 (29.17%) LAN
2 7 (29.17%) Network Security
2 7 (29.17%) SMTP
2 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
2 7 (29.17%) VPN
2 7 (29.17%) WAN
3 6 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Lead
2 6 (25.00%) Consultant
2 6 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Security Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Forensic Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (29.17%) Client/Server
3 6 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
6 1 (4.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Red Team
2 10 (41.67%) Security Operations
3 9 (37.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 9 (37.50%) Offensive Security
3 9 (37.50%) SIEM
4 7 (29.17%) Malware Analysis
4 7 (29.17%) People Management
4 7 (29.17%) Purple Team
4 7 (29.17%) Reverse Engineering
4 7 (29.17%) Use Case
5 6 (25.00%) Line Management
5 6 (25.00%) Presales
6 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
7 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 4 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Social Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) Forensic Analysis
9 2 (8.33%) Microservices
9 2 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) Bash
3 6 (25.00%) C++
3 6 (25.00%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) CCSAS
4 5 (20.83%) CREST Certified
5 4 (16.67%) Degree
5 4 (16.67%) OSCP
6 3 (12.50%) CCSAM
6 3 (12.50%) CHECK Team Leader
6 3 (12.50%) CISSP
6 3 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (8.33%) CISM
8 1 (4.17%) CEH
8 1 (4.17%) GCIA
8 1 (4.17%) GCIH
8 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) QRadar
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Sun
4 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys