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> My view on this is that, unfortunately, blue team positions are seen as entry positions. In general blue team members have little autonomy. They don't chose the suite of tools, protocols and have little mandate in a company to change a single thing since they're a cost centre.

And companies looking for experienced people somehow expect the pipeline of candidates that often come from such a typical environment to have all kinds of advanced skills already. Which obviously doesn't work, and thus they compete for the same small-ish talent pool (which has skills also applicable in plenty other roles too) instead of building that pool.