Red Team Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Teaming
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Red Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Team over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 442 517
Rank change year-on-year +60 +75 -89
Contract jobs citing Red Team 16 13 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.054% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.061% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 2
10th Percentile £551 £549 £468
25th Percentile £572 £581 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +9.79% +10.34%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £582
90th Percentile - £695 £585
UK median daily rate £595 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -0.83% +14.29% +9.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Red Team is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Red Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Red Team in the UK excluding London

Red Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Red Team in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Red Team in the UK excluding London

Red Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Team in the UK excluding London

Red 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 Red Team within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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 of England +30 8 £625 +6.66% 3
South West +29 5 £575 -11.54% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 2
North West +11 2 £513 -12.54% 1
North East - 2 £625 -
East of England - 2 £750 -
South East +24 1 £575 -3.77% 8
Red Team
UK

Red Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Wireless
2 3 (18.75%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Burp Suite
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Legal
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (50.00%) Tester
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Applications Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Mobile App
2 6 (37.50%) Operational Technology
3 5 (31.25%) Security Posture
4 4 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (12.50%) Cyberattack
6 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
7 1 (6.25%) CSOC
7 1 (6.25%) Insider Threat
7 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Linux
2 9 (56.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (81.25%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Application Security
3 7 (43.75%) Offensive Security
4 6 (37.50%) Ethical Hacking
5 5 (31.25%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 5 (31.25%) Security Operations
6 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) Blue Team
7 3 (18.75%) Cyber Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
7 3 (18.75%) SIEM
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) C++
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
4 1 (6.25%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) CREST Certified
1 9 (56.25%) OSCP
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) CEH
3 7 (43.75%) GIAC
4 6 (37.50%) GPEN
5 3 (18.75%) CISSP
6 1 (6.25%) CISM
6 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (6.25%) Degree
6 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) HP Fortify
1 1 (6.25%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco