Red Team Contracts in England

Red Teaming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Red Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Team over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 515 601
Rank change year-on-year +28 +86 +157
Contract jobs citing Red Team 12 30 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.047% 0.080% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.094% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 20 20
10th Percentile £443 £488 £363
25th Percentile £538 £572 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% +12.35%
75th Percentile £744 £650 £638
90th Percentile £838 £693 £664
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £586
% change year-on-year +8.33% +2.48% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23,206 31,905 42,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.51% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,965 20,680 29,662
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,140 2,329 1,534
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.87% +45.72%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.59
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.35 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Team in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Red Team in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Team in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Team in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Red Team in England.

Hourly rate trend for Red Team in England

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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 Red Team within the England region over the 6 months to 28 June 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 7 £625 +5.93% 34
East of England +29 2 - - 6
North West +16 2 £650 +26.83% 12
North of England +7 2 £650 +4.00% 20
South West +34 1 - - 12
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UK

Red 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Intranet
2 1 (8.33%) Wireless
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Law
2 3 (25.00%) Legal
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Back Office
3 2 (16.67%) Billing
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 2 (16.67%) IT Services Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Fraud Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Fraud Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) SCADA
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 4 (33.33%) Information Security
2 4 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (25.00%) SIEM
3 3 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Blue Team
4 2 (16.67%) Contract Management
4 2 (16.67%) Contract Negotiation
4 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Line Management
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
4 2 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) C
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) C++
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) CREST Certified
1 2 (16.67%) OSCE
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow