Purple Team Contracts in London

Purple Teaming
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 387 477
Rank change year-on-year +40 +90 +120
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 6 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.022% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.025% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 14
10th Percentile - £405 £516
25th Percentile - £450 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £610 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -6.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile - £777 £700
90th Percentile - £791 £747
England median daily rate - £438 £650
% change year-on-year - -32.69% -10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in London

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (83.33%) IaaS
1 5 (83.33%) PaaS
1 5 (83.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Tester
2 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Penetration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (83.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Red Team
2 5 (83.33%) Application Security
2 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) Ethical Hacking
2 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 5 (83.33%) Manual Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) Offensive Security
2 5 (83.33%) OWASP
2 5 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Secure Coding
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 5 (83.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) PHP
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Ruby
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) OSCP
2 5 (83.33%) CCSAS
2 5 (83.33%) CEH
2 5 (83.33%) CREST Certified
2 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 5 (83.33%) GIAC
2 5 (83.33%) GPEN
2 5 (83.33%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST