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

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 376 450
Rank change year-on-year +24 +74 +137
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Red Team 15 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.11% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.12% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 7
10th Percentile £456 - £400
25th Percentile £461 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £590 £560
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +5.36% -0.44%
75th Percentile £705 £598 £606
90th Percentile £829 £638 £623
England median daily rate £513 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -14.58% +2.48% +13.41%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,417 14,411 21,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.87% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,268 10,045 15,440
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 £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 197 229
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.99 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £22.90
Median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% -12.50% +8.84%
75th Percentile £48.75 £53.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Red Team
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Team in London over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Team in London

Red 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 Red Team within the London region over the 6 months to 19 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 +17.33% 2
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 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
1 1 (6.67%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Law
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) SOC Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Fraud Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Fraud Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (13.33%) STIX
2 2 (13.33%) YARA
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Kali Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 9 (60.00%) SIEM
2 7 (46.67%) Purple Team
3 6 (40.00%) Blue Team
3 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (33.33%) ITSM
4 5 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 5 (33.33%) Use Case
5 4 (26.67%) SOAR
5 4 (26.67%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (20.00%) Information Security
6 3 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 3 (20.00%) Security Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection
7 2 (13.33%) Analytics
7 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
7 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) C
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 2 (13.33%) CREST Certified
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) GCFA
3 2 (13.33%) GCIA
3 2 (13.33%) GCIH
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Nmap
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Citrix
2 5 (33.33%) Forcepoint
2 5 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow