Red Team Contract Job Trends in the South West

Red Teaming
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Red Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 110 146
Rank change year-on-year -26 +36 +17
Contract jobs citing Red Team 11 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.33% 0.058% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.064% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile £406 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £522 - £588
90th Percentile £606 - £595
England median daily rate £538 £638 £590
% change year-on-year -15.69% +8.05% -1.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,610 1,553 2,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.38% 90.71% 83.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 971 1,680
10th Percentile £320 £235 £215
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £625
90th Percentile £715 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 157 340
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £13.86
25th Percentile £26.01 £18.87 £29.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Team relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Red Team job vacancy trend in the South West

Red Team
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Red Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Red Team

Red Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Team in the South West over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Red Team in the South West

Red Team
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 10 May 2026. 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
Wiltshire - 8 £413 -
Bristol -18 2 £488 -
Somerset - 1 £650 - 1
Red Team
England

Red Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
General
1 1 (9.09%) Legal
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Penetration Tester
1 5 (45.45%) Tester
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (9.09%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Blue Team
1 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Advanced Persistent Threat
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Forensic Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (9.09%) Purple Team
3 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM
3 1 (9.09%) SOAR
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (9.09%) Intel
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk