Red Team Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Red Teaming
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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 322 413
Rank change year-on-year +22 +91 +170
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Red Team 7 12 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.070% 0.092% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.11% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 10
10th Percentile £683 £436 £363
25th Percentile £777 £581 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £847 £678 £659
90th Percentile £850 £710 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.39% +11.62%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,136 11,355 19,132
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.99% 87.22% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,089 7,563 13,519
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 363 457
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.31 £17.08
25th Percentile £17.21 £30.47 £25.00
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.63 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £79.51
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £40.69
% change year-on-year -37.90% -0.47% +53.55%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Red Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Red Team

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 21 August 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Law
3 2 (28.57%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (28.57%) SOC Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (28.57%) YARA
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Threat Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
4 3 (42.86%) Fintech
4 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 2 (28.57%) OWASP
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Runbook
5 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 2 (28.57%) SIEM
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) GCIA
1 2 (28.57%) GCIH
2 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
2 1 (14.29%) CSSLP
2 1 (14.29%) GIAC
2 1 (14.29%) GPEN
2 1 (14.29%) GWAPT
2 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (42.86%) GDPR
3 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
3 3 (42.86%) SOC 2
4 2 (28.57%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAI