Purple Team Contracts in Central London

Purple Teaming
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Purple Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Purple Team over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 - 166
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.049% - 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% - 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £630 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £690 - £613
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £475 £498 £650
% change year-on-year -4.52% -23.46% -10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Purple Team falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,921 2,156 3,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.71% 91.43% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,492 2,251
10th Percentile £337 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £713
90th Percentile £775 £797 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 24
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.84 £16.33
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.41 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -13.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.75 £53.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.55 £41.50
% change year-on-year -10.58% -19.16% +16.08%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in Central London

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in Central London

Purple Team
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 21 July 2025. 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
City of London - 1 £660 -
Purple Team
London

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) STIX
1 1 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft