Red Team Contracts in London

Red Teaming
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Red Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Team over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 464 585
Rank change year-on-year +89 +121 -130
Contract jobs citing Red Team 16 34 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.090% 0.13% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.14% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 7
10th Percentile £526 £489 £475
25th Percentile £583 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -5.77% +34.02%
75th Percentile £598 £700 £781
90th Percentile £652 - £875
England median daily rate £590 £600 £571
% change year-on-year -1.67% +5.03% +17.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Red 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 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
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% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Team in London

Red Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Red Team in London

Red Team
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Team in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Team in London

Red Team
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Team within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South London - 1 - -
Red Team
England

Red Team
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 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Wireless
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Burp Suite
1 3 (18.75%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (37.50%) Banking
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Consultant
1 4 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
1 4 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Junior
3 2 (12.50%) Junior Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Information Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Mobile App
2 6 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (25.00%) IoT
4 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
5 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (68.75%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (50.00%) OWASP
3 8 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 7 (43.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 7 (43.75%) Social Engineering
4 7 (43.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 6 (37.50%) Offensive Security
6 5 (31.25%) Blue Team
6 5 (31.25%) Threat Detection
7 4 (25.00%) Use Case
8 3 (18.75%) Cyber Intelligence
8 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 3 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
8 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
9 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (12.50%) SIEM
9 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) C#
3 6 (37.50%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
4 1 (6.25%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 8 (50.00%) OSCP
2 6 (37.50%) CHECK Team Leader
2 6 (37.50%) GIAC
3 2 (12.50%) GPEN
4 1 (6.25%) CEH
4 1 (6.25%) CISM
4 1 (6.25%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.25%) ECSA
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Darktrace
2 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.25%) Qualys
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) VMware