Purple Team Contracts in the South West

Purple Teaming
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 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 152 162 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.094% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 -
England median daily rate £438 £650 £725
% change year-on-year -32.69% -10.34% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Purple Team
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +18 3 - -
Purple Team
England

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Ethical Hacker
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) OSCP
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform