Red Team Job Trends in the Midlands

Red Teaming
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Red Team skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 263 -
Rank change year-on-year +219 - -
Permanent jobs citing Red Team 292 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.26% 0.022% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.07% 0.028% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,165 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 - -
75th Percentile £53,951 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £76,250 £66,510
% change year-on-year -34.43% +14.64% +0.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,809 7,267 4,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.65% 81.03% 93.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,816 3,308 3,767
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,125 £38,000 £37,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,008 £52,170
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% -0.31% +4.34%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,914 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Red Team job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Red Team
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Red Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Red Team

Red Team
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Team within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
East Midlands +122 182 £51,058 - 2
West Midlands +139 110 - - 4
Red Team
England

Red Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (0.68%) AWS
1 2 (0.68%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.03%) Firewall
1 3 (1.03%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Burp Suite
1 2 (0.68%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 288 (98.63%) Manufacturing
2 287 (98.29%) Retail
3 76 (26.03%) Dutch Language
3 76 (26.03%) Finnish Language
3 76 (26.03%) Norwegian Language
4 19 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.51%) Catalan Language
5 4 (1.37%) Social Skills
6 2 (0.68%) Finance
6 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 285 (97.60%) Trainer
2 4 (1.37%) Senior
3 3 (1.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (1.03%) Security Engineer
4 2 (0.68%) Security Specialist
4 2 (0.68%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (0.68%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 285 (97.60%) Robotics
2 3 (1.03%) Operational Technology
2 3 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (1.03%) SCADA
3 2 (0.68%) Insider Threat
3 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (98.29%) Problem-Solving
2 285 (97.60%) AI
2 285 (97.60%) Generative AI
2 285 (97.60%) LLM
2 285 (97.60%) Machine Learning
3 209 (71.58%) Data Privacy
4 19 (6.51%) Biochemistry
4 19 (6.51%) Biology
4 19 (6.51%) Chemistry
5 5 (1.71%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (1.03%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (1.03%) Offensive Security
6 3 (1.03%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (0.68%) Anomaly Detection
7 2 (0.68%) Black-Box Testing
7 2 (0.68%) Domain Models
7 2 (0.68%) Mentoring
7 2 (0.68%) Open Source
7 2 (0.68%) Project Delivery
7 2 (0.68%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 289 (98.97%) Degree
2 5 (1.71%) SC Cleared
2 5 (1.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.68%) CCNA
3 2 (0.68%) CEH
3 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.68%) CISMP
3 2 (0.68%) CISSP
3 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.68%) CREST Certified
3 2 (0.68%) GIAC
3 2 (0.68%) GPEN
3 2 (0.68%) MCP
3 2 (0.68%) MCSE
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.03%) NIST
1 3 (1.03%) NIST 800
2 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (0.68%) Nmap
Vendors
1 285 (97.60%) Adobe
1 285 (97.60%) Databricks
1 285 (97.60%) Google
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.68%) Cisco