Purple Team Job Trends in Reading

Purple Teaming
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading 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 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Purple Team 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.063% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £86,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £77,500 £46,000 -
% change year-on-year +68.48% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,097 442 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 69.12% 82.46% 79.94%
Number of salaries quoted 821 275 572
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Purple Team job vacancy trend in Reading

Purple Team
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Purple Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Purple Team

Purple Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft