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 23 April 2024 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 971 1138
Rank change year-on-year +98 +167 -343
Permanent jobs citing Blue Coat 16 7 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.007% 0.050%
As % of the Vendors category 0.044% 0.016% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 36
10th Percentile £41,000 £35,916 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,312 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -37.74% +42.78%
75th Percentile £90,000 £50,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £52,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £43,554 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.06% -20.81% +29.41%

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 36,534 44,197 59,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.38% 41.81% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 25,231 25,135 33,413
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,105 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 23 April 2024.

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 23 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
Work from Home +89 11 £90,000 +80.00% 3
England +116 9 £47,500 +18.75% 9
UK excluding London +6 8 £47,500 +9.06% 9
East of England +35 5 £47,500 -5.00% 7
North West - 3 £40,000 -
North of England - 3 £40,000 -
London +131 1 £60,000 +50.00%

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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (75.00%) Network Security
3 7 (43.75%) Internet
3 7 (43.75%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (18.75%) DNS
5 1 (6.25%) BGP
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (6.25%) Ethernet
5 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (6.25%) LAN
5 1 (6.25%) NX-OS
5 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Consultant
1 7 (43.75%) Security Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Security Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Network Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Security
1 7 (43.75%) Identity Access Management
1 7 (43.75%) Presales
1 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
1 7 (43.75%) Zero Trust
2 5 (31.25%) Cryptography
3 3 (18.75%) Information Management
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 2 (12.50%) Threat Detection
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (6.25%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Due Diligence
5 1 (6.25%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (50.00%) CCIE
2 8 (50.00%) CCNP
3 7 (43.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 7 (43.75%) CCIE Security
3 7 (43.75%) CCSP
3 7 (43.75%) CISSP
4 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) CCNA
7 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (12.50%) vRealize
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco
2 13 (81.25%) CheckPoint
3 12 (75.00%) Palo Alto
4 10 (62.50%) Fortinet
5 7 (43.75%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (43.75%) Netskope
5 7 (43.75%) Symantec
5 7 (43.75%) Zscaler
6 5 (31.25%) Infoblox
7 4 (25.00%) Riverbed
7 4 (25.00%) VMware
8 3 (18.75%) CA
8 3 (18.75%) Juniper
9 2 (12.50%) LogRhythm
9 2 (12.50%) McAfee
9 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
9 2 (12.50%) Trend Micro
9 2 (12.50%) Tripwire
10 1 (6.25%) Aruba