Purple Team Contracts in England

Purple Teaming
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Purple Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Purple Team over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 627 783
Rank change year-on-year +106 +156 -159
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 17 28 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.055% 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.061% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 1
10th Percentile £367 £495 -
25th Percentile £392 £586 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £473 £688 £738
90th Percentile £772 £714 -
UK median daily rate £438 £650 £725
% change year-on-year -32.69% -10.34% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Purple Team is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Purple Team in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Purple Team in England

Purple 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 Purple Team within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 10 £438 - 1
West Midlands - 10 £438 - 1
London +95 4 £610 -6.08% 1
North of England +25 3 - -
North West +16 3 - -
South West +13 3 - - 2
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UK

Purple 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 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Burp Suite
General
1 10 (58.82%) Legal
2 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Analyst
1 10 (58.82%) SOC Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Ethical Hacker
3 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (58.82%) Mac OS X
3 5 (29.41%) Kali Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (58.82%) Computer Forensics
2 10 (58.82%) Incident Management
2 10 (58.82%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 10 (58.82%) Reverse Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) Risk Management
2 10 (58.82%) SIEM
2 10 (58.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 10 (58.82%) Threat Analysis
2 10 (58.82%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (41.18%) Cloud Security
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (29.41%) Ethical Hacking
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Line Management
4 5 (29.41%) Penetration Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (82.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (70.59%) NIST
2 10 (58.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 10 (58.82%) GDPR
2 10 (58.82%) HIPAA
2 10 (58.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (29.41%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Qualys
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat