Red Team Job Trends in Leicestershire

Red Teaming
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Red Team skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Red Team 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.18% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £41,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £51,058 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

Red 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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 449 431 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 78.91% 92.29% 90.38%
Number of salaries quoted 312 185 251
10th Percentile £24,350 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £59,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,700 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Red Team job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Red Team
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Team within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Melton Mowbray - 1 £37,500 - 1
Red Team
East Midlands

Red Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Member
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) GPEN
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys