Purple Team Jobs in England

Purple Teaming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Purple Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Purple Team over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 819 859
Rank change year-on-year +152 +40 +316
Permanent jobs citing Purple Team 12 31 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.035% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.041% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 39
10th Percentile £72,625 £46,875 £56,750
25th Percentile £80,313 £50,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £53,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -28.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £130,000 £70,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £134,500 £76,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £107,500 £50,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +115.00% -33.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Purple Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Purple Team in England.

Salary trend for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Purple Team in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Purple Team within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
London +110 8 £112,500 - 7
Purple Team
UK

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (8.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Consultant
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
1 6 (50.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Security Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (16.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Red Team
2 10 (83.33%) Offensive Security
3 7 (58.33%) Blue Team
3 7 (58.33%) Mentoring
4 6 (50.00%) Presales
5 5 (41.67%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
7 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) CCSAS
2 5 (41.67%) CREST Certified
3 4 (33.33%) CHECK Team Leader
4 3 (25.00%) CCSAM
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) OSCP
6 1 (8.33%) Cyber Scheme
6 1 (8.33%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft