Purple Team Contracts in London

Purple Teaming
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 479 597
Rank change year-on-year +91 +118 -143
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 4 16 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.059% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.065% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 1
10th Percentile £405 £516 -
25th Percentile £450 £616 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £777 £700 £738
90th Percentile £791 £747 -
England median daily rate £438 £650 £725
% change year-on-year -32.69% -10.34% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,788 24,627 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.55% 91.11% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,707 26,166
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £47.56 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Purple Team in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Purple Team in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Ethical Hacker
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Kali Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Qualys
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat