Red Team Contracts in London

Red Teaming
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 337 375 459
Rank change year-on-year +38 +84 +123
Contract jobs citing Red Team 16 16 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.090% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 18
10th Percentile £500 £526 £489
25th Percentile £547 £583 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £590 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -5.77%
75th Percentile £788 £598 £700
90th Percentile £838 £652 -
England median daily rate £638 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +8.05% -1.67% +5.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 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%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Team in London

Red Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Red Team in London

Red Team
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Team in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Team in London

Red Team
Contract 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 Red Team within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London - 3 £600 - 15
Red Team
England

Red 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 5 (31.25%) IaaS
1 5 (31.25%) PaaS
1 5 (31.25%) SaaS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
General
1 7 (43.75%) Legal
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Law
5 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Tester
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Tester
3 4 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Lead Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Fraud Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Fraud Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Security Penetration Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Security Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) CSS
1 5 (31.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (31.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (18.75%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (56.25%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (50.00%) Information Security
4 6 (37.50%) Offensive Security
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Purple Team
4 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 5 (31.25%) Application Security
5 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (31.25%) Ethical Hacking
5 5 (31.25%) Manual Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
5 5 (31.25%) OWASP
5 5 (31.25%) Secure Coding
5 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (18.75%) Cryptography
6 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
1 5 (31.25%) PHP
1 5 (31.25%) Python
1 5 (31.25%) Ruby
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) OSCP
2 5 (31.25%) CCSAS
2 5 (31.25%) CEH
2 5 (31.25%) CREST Certified
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) GIAC
2 5 (31.25%) GPEN
2 5 (31.25%) GWAPT
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) CASB
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Forcepoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft