Red Team Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Red Teaming
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Red Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Red Team 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £524 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £550 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +2.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,400 1,507 1,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.62% 90.02% 84.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 980 725
10th Percentile £339 £249 £293
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £652
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 52 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £17.48 -
25th Percentile £15.32 £18.87 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.04 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +33.05% -11.70%
75th Percentile £26.28 £25.15 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £78.38 £49.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Team relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Red Team job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Red Team
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Red Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Red Team

Red Team
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. 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 Yorkshire - 6 £550 -
West Yorkshire - 5 £600 - 2
South Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
Red Team
England

Red Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Claude Code
General
1 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Lead
2 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 6 (54.55%) QA Engineer
3 6 (54.55%) QA Leader
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Security Penetration Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Security Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) AI Agents
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) NHS
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) AI
1 8 (72.73%) LLM
2 6 (54.55%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Data Science
3 2 (18.18%) Offensive Security
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Tenable