Purple Team Contracts in the UK excluding London

Purple Teaming
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 443 -
Rank change year-on-year +67 - -
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 13 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.047% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.053% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £348 £534 -
25th Percentile £406 £585 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £586 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.34% - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £503 £624 -
UK median daily rate £438 £650 £763
% change year-on-year -32.69% -14.75% +27.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,155 20,842 27,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,227 14,395 19,059
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,276 1,366
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.93 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.16
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.46
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in the UK excluding London

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in the UK excluding London

Purple Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Purple Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Purple Team in the UK excluding London

Purple Team
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
West Midlands - 10 £438 - 1
Midlands - 10 £438 - 1
North West +21 3 - -
North of England +18 3 - -
South West +9 3 - -
Scotland - 3 - - 2
Purple Team
UK

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (23.08%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Burp Suite
General
1 10 (76.92%) Legal
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Analyst
1 10 (76.92%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Ethical Hacker
3 1 (7.69%) Junior
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Mac OS X
3 3 (23.08%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (76.92%) Computer Forensics
2 10 (76.92%) Incident Management
2 10 (76.92%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 10 (76.92%) Reverse Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) Risk Management
2 10 (76.92%) SIEM
2 10 (76.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 10 (76.92%) Threat Analysis
2 10 (76.92%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (38.46%) Line Management
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Ethical Hacking
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 10 (76.92%) GDPR
1 10 (76.92%) HIPAA
1 10 (76.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (76.92%) NIST
2 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform