Purple Team Contracts in England

Purple Teaming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 533 603
Rank change year-on-year +33 +70 +180
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 6 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.036% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.042% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 14
10th Percentile £459 £341 £511
25th Percentile £463 £391 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -24.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £639 £534 £669
90th Percentile £814 £599 £675
UK median daily rate £568 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +19.47% -24.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24,848 30,886 42,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.63% 85.69% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,947 20,129 29,482
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £666
90th Percentile £745 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,320 2,079 1,488
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% -9.41% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Purple Team in England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London +42 5 £475 -4.52% 15
South East - 1 £875 - 3
Purple Team
UK

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) STIX
2 1 (16.67%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 6 (100.00%) Red Team
2 5 (83.33%) Blue Team
2 5 (83.33%) SIEM
3 4 (66.67%) ITSM
4 2 (33.33%) Use Case
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) BCP
5 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (16.67%) Resilience Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) SOAR
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) GCFA
2 1 (16.67%) GCIA
2 1 (16.67%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) Forcepoint
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet