Red Team Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Red Teaming
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Red Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 120 148
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 -
Contract jobs citing Red Team 1 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.058% 0.24% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.26% 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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £660 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.35% -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,633 1,944 2,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.50% 91.83% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 1,210 1,833
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £423 £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 £700
90th Percentile £763 £792 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.09 £21.63 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +13.60% -26.90%
75th Percentile £39.88 £97.38 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -34.52%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Red Team job vacancy trend in the City of London

Red Team
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Team

Red Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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