Purple Team Contracts in the South East

Purple Teaming
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Purple Team 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.028% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 - -
75th Percentile £938 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £520 £586
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.26% -13.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,160 3,974 4,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.67% 82.43% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,970 2,411 3,348
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 315 236
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +96.08%
75th Percentile £53.50 £70.09 £63.94
90th Percentile £70.81 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in the South East

Purple Team
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Purple Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Purple Team

Purple Team
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £875 -
Thames Valley - 1 £875 - 2
Purple Team
England

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC