Red Team Contracts

Red Teaming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 666 818
Rank change year-on-year +104 +152 -159
Contract jobs citing Red Team 36 53 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.089% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.099% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 19
10th Percentile £488 - £473
25th Percentile £550 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +7.42%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £619
90th Percentile £688 - £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £586 £534
% change year-on-year +2.39% +9.79% +7.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Team in the UK

Red Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Red Team in the UK

Red Team
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Team over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Team in the UK

Red Team
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +113 33 £595 -0.83% 22
London +82 16 £590 -1.67% 5
UK excluding London +67 15 £600 +2.39% 14
Work from Home +128 12 £600 - 15
North of England +30 7 £650 +10.92% 2
South West +24 5 £575 -11.54% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 2
North East - 2 £625 -
East of England - 2 £750 -
South East +25 1 £575 -3.77% 8
North West +7 1 £450 -23.21%

Red Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) Wireless
2 4 (11.11%) Firewall
3 2 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.78%) 4G
4 1 (2.78%) 5G
4 1 (2.78%) LTE
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Burp Suite
1 3 (8.33%) Metasploit
General
1 10 (27.78%) Banking
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
4 6 (16.67%) Finance
5 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Penetration Tester
1 14 (38.89%) Tester
2 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Consultant
3 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Cyber Threat Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Applications Tester
5 2 (5.56%) Junior
5 2 (5.56%) Junior Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Security Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Information Security Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Technical Product Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (41.67%) Mobile App
2 11 (30.56%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 7 (19.44%) Operational Technology
5 5 (13.89%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (11.11%) IoT
7 2 (5.56%) Cyberattack
7 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.78%) CSOC
8 1 (2.78%) Insider Threat
8 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (50.00%) Linux
1 18 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
2 25 (69.44%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (44.44%) Security Operations
4 14 (38.89%) Offensive Security
5 12 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 10 (27.78%) Application Security
6 10 (27.78%) Blue Team
7 9 (25.00%) OWASP
7 9 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 8 (22.22%) Cyber Intelligence
8 8 (22.22%) Incident Response
8 8 (22.22%) Threat Detection
8 8 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
9 7 (19.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 7 (19.44%) Ethical Hacking
9 7 (19.44%) SIEM
9 7 (19.44%) Social Engineering
10 6 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
11 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
11 5 (13.89%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) C++
3 7 (19.44%) C#
3 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) Go
5 3 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (5.56%) C
6 2 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (5.56%) Perl
6 2 (5.56%) Ruby
6 2 (5.56%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 18 (50.00%) OSCP
2 14 (38.89%) GIAC
3 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
4 9 (25.00%) CEH
4 9 (25.00%) GPEN
5 6 (16.67%) CHECK Team Leader
6 4 (11.11%) CISSP
7 2 (5.56%) CISM
7 2 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.78%) Degree
8 1 (2.78%) ECSA
8 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (52.78%) NIST
2 3 (8.33%) NIST 800
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.56%) SLA
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Nessus
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.78%) Qualys
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) VMware