Purple Team Job Trends in the City of London

Purple Teaming
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of 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 135 - 169
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Permanent jobs citing Purple Team 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.031% - 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% - 0.076%
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
Central London median annual salary £70,000 - £111,250
% change year-on-year - - +53.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,576 1,678 2,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.47% 96.00% 92.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 1,322 1,840
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,854
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -1.02%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Purple Team job vacancy trend in the City of London

Purple Team
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Purple Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Purple Team

Purple Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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