Red Team Contracts in the North West

Red Teaming
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Red Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Team over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 145 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Red Team 2 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.074% 0.32% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £440 £534 -
25th Percentile £463 £585 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £586 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £565 £624 -
England median daily rate £590 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -1.67% -4.00% +27.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Red 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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,327 2,859 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.59% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,033 2,605
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 143 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.95 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Team in the North West

Red Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Team in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Red Team in the North West

Red Team
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +17 2 £513 -21.15% 1
Red Team
England

Red Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (50.00%) Insider Threat
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (50.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft