Purple Team Contracts in the City of London

Purple Teaming
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - 165
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.053% - 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% - 0.066%
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £660 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,760 1,887 3,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.97% 91.38% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,284 2,051
10th Percentile £331 £364 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 15
10th Percentile £17.57 £19.19 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -19.06%
75th Percentile £54.75 £85.63 £52.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -17.65%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in the City of London

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in the City of London

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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