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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 417 502
Rank change year-on-year +33 +85 -69
Contract jobs citing Red Team 17 13 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.080% 0.057% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.064% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 1
10th Percentile £553 £549 -
25th Percentile £575 £581 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +8.02% +12.14%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £564
90th Percentile £720 £695 -
UK median daily rate £600 £586 £525
% change year-on-year +2.39% +11.62% +4.48%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +15 8 £625 +6.66% 1
South West +5 6 £600 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £650 -
North West +7 2 £513 -12.54% 1
North East - 2 £625 -
East of England - 2 £750 -
South East +14 1 £575 -3.77% 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Wireless
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Burp Suite
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Legal
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (47.06%) Tester
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Security Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Mobile App
2 6 (35.29%) Operational Technology
3 5 (29.41%) Security Posture
4 4 (23.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (11.76%) Cyberattack
6 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
7 1 (5.88%) CSOC
7 1 (5.88%) Insider Threat
7 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (76.47%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (47.06%) Application Security
3 7 (41.18%) Offensive Security
4 6 (35.29%) Ethical Hacking
5 5 (29.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 5 (29.41%) Security Operations
6 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
6 4 (23.53%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (17.65%) Blue Team
7 3 (17.65%) Cyber Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
7 3 (17.65%) SIEM
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) C++
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) Ruby
4 1 (5.88%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) CREST Certified
1 9 (52.94%) OSCP
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 7 (41.18%) CEH
3 7 (41.18%) GIAC
4 6 (35.29%) GPEN
5 3 (17.65%) CISSP
6 1 (5.88%) CISM
6 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.88%) Degree
6 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) HP Fortify
1 1 (5.88%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco