Purple Team Contracts in the North of England

Purple Teaming
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Purple Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Purple Team over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 203 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 3 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.064% 0.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £586 -
England median daily rate £438 £650 £763
% change year-on-year -32.69% -14.75% +27.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Purple Team is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Purple Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in the North of England

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Purple Team in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in the North of England

Purple Team
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
North West +17 3 - -
Purple Team
England

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Ethical Hacker
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) OSCP
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform