Purple Team Job Trends in Central London

Purple Teaming
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Purple Team skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - 180
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Permanent jobs citing Purple Team 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.030% - 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% - 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £104,875
25th Percentile £67,500 - £106,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £111,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +53.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £114,063
90th Percentile - - £114,625
London median annual salary £80,000 £112,500 £115,000
% change year-on-year -28.89% -2.17% +55.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Purple Team falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,741 1,949 3,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 81.21% 96.01% 93.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,960 1,528 2,054
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -1.02%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Purple Team relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Purple Team job vacancy trend in Central London

Purple Team
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Purple Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Purple Team

Purple Team
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Purple Team within the Central London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 1 £70,000 - 1
Purple Team
London

Purple Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode