Red Team Contracts in the South East

Red Teaming
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 - 211
Rank change year-on-year - - +57
Contract jobs citing Red Team 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.028% - 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% - 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £588
25th Percentile £813 - £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 - £660
75th Percentile £938 - £705
90th Percentile - - £732
England median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.48% +13.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,199 4,018 4,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.91% 82.66% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,997 2,464 3,358
10th Percentile £250 £255 £252
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £622
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 319 233
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +98.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.60 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -40.82% +3.61% +53.35%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Team in the South East

Red Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Team in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Red Team in the South East

Red Team
Contract 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 Red Team within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire - 1 £875 - 2
Thames Valley - 1 £875 - 7
Red Team
England

Red 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%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC