Purple Team Jobs

Purple Teaming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 857 928
Rank change year-on-year +155 +71 +274
Permanent jobs citing Purple Team 15 37 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.037% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.044% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 15 26 43
10th Percentile £67,000 £46,875 £57,500
25th Percentile £78,125 £50,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £130,000 £70,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £133,000 £78,125 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -25.93% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in the UK

Purple Team
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Purple Team in the UK

Purple Team
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Purple Team over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Purple Team in the UK

Purple Team
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Purple Team within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +132 15 £105,000 +95.35% 7
London +121 11 £105,000 -6.67% 6
UK excluding London +132 2 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Work from Home +132 1 £110,000 +51.72% 4
South East +82 1 £65,000 +10.17% 1
North of England +55 1 £65,000 +30.00% 1
North West -5 1 £65,000 +30.00% 1

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
1 2 (13.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Consultant
1 9 (60.00%) Security Consultant
2 7 (46.67%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Security Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Security Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Offensive Security
1 13 (86.67%) Red Team
2 9 (60.00%) Blue Team
2 9 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 9 (60.00%) Presales
3 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (13.33%) Open Source
5 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (6.67%) Validation
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) CCSAS
2 5 (33.33%) CCSAM
2 5 (33.33%) CHECK Team Leader
3 3 (20.00%) CREST Certified
4 1 (6.67%) OSCE
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft