Blue Team Contracts in England

Blue Teaming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Blue Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blue Team over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 608 783
Rank change year-on-year +72 +175 -128
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 14 28 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.060% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.066% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 3
10th Percentile £488 £536 -
25th Percentile £491 £585 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £586 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +17.20% -13.04%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £525
90th Percentile £618 £650 -
UK median daily rate £563 £586 £500
% change year-on-year -4.01% +17.20% -13.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Blue Team falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in England

Blue Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue Team in England.

Daily rate trend for Blue Team in England

Blue Team
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Team in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Team in England

Blue Team
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Team within the England region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +80 7 £590 -5.60%
South West +1 2 £500 -23.08% 1
East of England - 2 £750 -
South East +12 1 £575 - 1
Blue Team
UK

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Burp Suite
1 3 (21.43%) Metasploit
General
1 8 (57.14%) Banking
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Information Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (35.71%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (35.71%) Security Posture
3 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.14%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Security Operations
2 10 (71.43%) Red Team
3 9 (64.29%) SIEM
4 8 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (50.00%) Incident Response
5 7 (50.00%) Threat Detection
5 7 (50.00%) Use Case
6 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (42.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 6 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
9 3 (21.43%) Cyber Intelligence
9 3 (21.43%) Product Strategy
9 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
10 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (14.29%) RBAC
10 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (14.29%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) NIST 800
3 2 (14.29%) GDPR
3 2 (14.29%) SLA
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Darktrace
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys