Red Team Contract Job Trends in Central London

Red Teaming
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Red Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 127 153
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 -
Contract jobs citing Red Team 1 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.052% 0.21% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £531 -
25th Percentile £630 £559 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £690 £625 £613
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Red 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 1,810 2,160 2,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.98% 92.11% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 1,383 1,978
10th Percentile £322 £363 £360
25th Percentile £423 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £771 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 18
10th Percentile £17.97 £17.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.19 £24.83 £16.71
Median hourly rate £27.83 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% +30.84% -36.31%
75th Percentile £41.81 £65.63 £45.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £119.65 £57.73
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.80 £37.75
% change year-on-year -18.48% -2.52% +5.59%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Team relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Red Team job vacancy trend in Central London

Red Team
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Red Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Red Team

Red 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 Red Team within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 October 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 -6 1 £660 +10.00% 3
Red Team
London

Red Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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%) Purple 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