Red Team Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 332 463
Rank change year-on-year +35 +131 +149
Contract jobs citing Red Team 7 13 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.085% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.096% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 11
10th Percentile £600 £438 -
25th Percentile £613 £569 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £791 £669 £700
90th Percentile £838 £700 -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Red Team
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Red Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Red Team trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Red Team
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Red Team.

Red Team daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Red Team
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Red Team over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Red Team daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Red Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Intranet
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 2 (28.57%) Law
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Services Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Security Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Ethical Hacking
4 3 (42.86%) Offensive Security
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 1 (14.29%) ITIL
6 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CREST Certified
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Scheme
2 2 (28.57%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NIST