Purple Team Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Purple Teaming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Purple Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 360 411
Rank change year-on-year -39 +51 +92
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.012% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.015% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £537 £511 -
25th Percentile £583 £528 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £563 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% +32.35% -
75th Percentile £833 £603 £463
90th Percentile £896 £624 -
UK median daily rate £581 £520 £513
% change year-on-year +11.78% +1.46% -18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £41.94 - -
UK median hourly rate £41.94 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,631 13,761 17,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.97% 85.80% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,559 7,946 11,486
10th Percentile £219 £243 £250
25th Percentile £370 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,746 871 1,261
10th Percentile £14.33 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.59 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% -23.53% +30.77%
75th Percentile £45.35 £64.86 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.56 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Purple Team relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Purple Team job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Purple Team
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Purple Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Purple Team

Purple Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Purple Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Purple Team in the UK excluding London

Purple Team
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
North West - 5 - - 5
North of England - 5 - - 5
South East -9 2 £694 +23.33% 5
Purple Team
UK

Purple Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (14.29%) Azure
General
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Red Team
2 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (71.43%) Cyber Intelligence
3 5 (71.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (71.43%) Data Flow Diagram
3 5 (71.43%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (71.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (71.43%) OWASP
3 5 (71.43%) Remediation Plan
3 5 (71.43%) Risk Management
3 5 (71.43%) Situational Awareness
3 5 (71.43%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (71.43%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (71.43%) Validation
3 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) SOAR
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) NCSC
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) GRC