Red Team Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Teaming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 383 434
Rank change year-on-year +51 +51 +73
Contract jobs citing Red Team 7 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.077% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.091% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 8
10th Percentile - £551 £549
25th Percentile £600 £572 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.39% +9.79%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £641
90th Percentile - - £695
UK median daily rate £613 £595 £600
% change year-on-year +2.94% -0.83% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

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
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend 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 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
Wales - 4 £625 - 1
East of England +29 2 - -
North of England +17 2 £650 +4.00% 163
North West +14 2 £650 +26.83% 59
South West +39 1 - - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Intranet
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
2 2 (28.57%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (28.57%) IT Manager
1 2 (28.57%) IT Services Delivery Manager
1 2 (28.57%) IT Services Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Service Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) SCADA
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (57.14%) Ethical Hacking
1 4 (57.14%) Security Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Offensive Security
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Contract Management
3 2 (28.57%) Contract Negotiation
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Facilities Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Line Management
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CREST Certified
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Scheme
2 2 (28.57%) OSCE
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) SAP