Red Team Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Red Teaming
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Red Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Red Team 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile £728 - -
South East median daily rate £425 - £750

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,547 1,853 2,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.73% 85.51% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 1,046 1,642
10th Percentile £267 £294 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £680 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 79 87
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.66 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.83 £28.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.38 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% +11.19% +165.82%
75th Percentile £44.68 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.54 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.37
% change year-on-year -61.99% +7.37% +74.54%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Red Team job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Red Team
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Red Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Red Team

Red Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Team in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Team in the Thames Valley

Red Team
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Berkshire - 5 £425 - 10
Oxfordshire - 1 £875 - 2
Red Team
South East

Red Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Burp Suite
1 4 (66.67%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Penetration Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Kali Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Ethical Hacking
1 4 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 4 (66.67%) OWASP
1 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Purple Team
3 1 (16.67%) BCP
3 1 (16.67%) Blue Team
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SOAR
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CEH
1 4 (66.67%) GPEN
1 4 (66.67%) OSCP
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Nmap