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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 375 457
Rank change year-on-year +13 +82 +144
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Purple Team 7 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.052% 0.043% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.049% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £456 £425 £560
25th Percentile £459 £484 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £638
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -18.43% -5.56%
75th Percentile £589 £536 £675
90th Percentile £714 £614 -
England median daily rate £475 £520 £586
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.26% -13.19%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,455 14,422 20,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.45% 88.90% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,286 10,008 15,211
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £779 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 191 228
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.25 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.77 £22.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £29.75 £35.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -11.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £48.44 £54.38 £64.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £78.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -40.82% +0.73% +56.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Purple Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Purple Team

Purple Team
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Purple Team in London over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Purple Team in London

Purple Team
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 1 £660 +25.71%
Purple Team
England

Purple Team
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 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (28.57%) STIX
2 2 (28.57%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 7 (100.00%) Red Team
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Blue Team
2 5 (71.43%) ITSM
3 4 (57.14%) Use Case
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) SOAR
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) GCFA
2 2 (28.57%) GCIA
2 2 (28.57%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Citrix
2 5 (71.43%) Forcepoint
2 5 (71.43%) Fortinet