Red Teaming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Red Team skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 209 733
Rank change year-on-year -430 +524 -6
Permanent jobs citing Red Team 150 775 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 1.54% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 1.73% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 111 34 57
10th Percentile £46,743 £26,188 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,625 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £44,250 £59,000
% change year-on-year +29.94% -25.00% +2.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,635 44,750 66,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.41% 89.19% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,192 25,377 43,044
10th Percentile £30,780 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Red Team job vacancy trend in the UK

Red Team
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Team

Red Team
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Team over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Team in the UK

Red Team
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Team within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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 -383 148 £80,000 +18.52% 40
London -3 81 £90,000 -2.70% 20
UK excluding London -436 63 £57,500 +29.94% 28
Work from Home -309 49 £75,000 -18.92% 25
South East -209 23 £82,500 +94.12% 9
Midlands -197 16 £46,743 - 3
West Midlands -101 12 £70,000 - 3
North of England -205 10 £50,000 -13.04% 7
South West -67 9 £45,000 -33.33% 5
North West -69 8 £50,000 - 4
East Midlands -129 4 £46,743 -
East of England - 3 - - 1
North East -75 2 £80,500 - 2
Scotland - 2 £60,000 - 1

Red Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (0.67%) Apache
1 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 47 (31.33%) Azure
2 43 (28.67%) AWS
3 14 (9.33%) GCP
4 12 (8.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 12 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.33%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (7.33%) Amazon S3
5 11 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (7.33%) SaaS
5 11 (7.33%) Serverless
6 8 (5.33%) Azure AI
6 8 (5.33%) GitHub
7 7 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (4.67%) LangSmith
8 5 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.67%) Kong
9 4 (2.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.00%) Firewall
2 12 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 11 (7.33%) DNS
4 7 (4.67%) Network Security
5 6 (4.00%) HTTP
5 6 (4.00%) VPN
6 5 (3.33%) Internet
7 4 (2.67%) DSL
7 4 (2.67%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.67%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.33%) BGP
8 2 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (1.33%) SAN
8 2 (1.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.67%) DynamoDB
2 4 (2.67%) MySQL
2 4 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.67%) Big Data
3 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (8.00%) Burp Suite
2 11 (7.33%) Metasploit
3 4 (2.67%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.67%) GitLab
3 4 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.00%) JIRA
5 2 (1.33%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.67%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 33 (22.00%) Finance
1 33 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.33%) Telecoms
5 13 (8.67%) Banking
5 13 (8.67%) Law
6 8 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.67%) Aerospace
7 7 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.00%) Legal
8 6 (4.00%) Retail
9 5 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.00%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) Games
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (19.33%) Tester
2 28 (18.67%) Penetration Tester
3 24 (16.00%) Analyst
4 22 (14.67%) Senior
5 17 (11.33%) Lead
6 13 (8.67%) Architect
7 12 (8.00%) Security Analyst
8 11 (7.33%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 10 (6.67%) Team Leader
10 9 (6.00%) Consultant
10 9 (6.00%) Security Consultant
10 9 (6.00%) Security Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Security Tester
10 9 (6.00%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) Security Penetration Tester
11 8 (5.33%) Security Specialist
11 8 (5.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) Senior Security Analyst
12 7 (4.67%) Client Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.33%) FastAPI
2 9 (6.00%) LangChain
3 7 (4.67%) LangGraph
4 4 (2.67%) AWS CDK
4 4 (2.67%) RESTful
5 3 (2.00%) OAuth
6 2 (1.33%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (1.33%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.33%) OpenID
7 1 (0.67%) Kafka
7 1 (0.67%) Memcached
7 1 (0.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.33%) Security Posture
2 25 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (8.00%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (7.33%) Low-Code
5 10 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 9 (6.00%) Blog
7 8 (5.33%) Mobile App
7 8 (5.33%) Onboarding
8 7 (4.67%) Cloud Native
8 7 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (4.00%) Operational Technology
9 6 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (3.33%) PKI
11 4 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (2.67%) Cyberattack
11 4 (2.67%) Insider Threat
12 3 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.67%) Windows
2 24 (16.00%) Linux
3 7 (4.67%) Android
3 7 (4.67%) Apple iOS
3 7 (4.67%) Unix
4 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (50.67%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (48.00%) Penetration Testing
3 49 (32.67%) Offensive Security
4 42 (28.00%) Incident Response
5 39 (26.00%) SIEM
6 35 (23.33%) AI
7 32 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (21.33%) Security Testing
8 31 (20.67%) Information Security
9 29 (19.33%) Blue Team
10 28 (18.67%) Threat Intelligence
11 27 (18.00%) CI/CD
12 26 (17.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 24 (16.00%) Cloud Security
13 24 (16.00%) Use Case
14 22 (14.67%) Purple Team
15 20 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 20 (13.33%) Threat Detection
15 20 (13.33%) Validation
16 18 (12.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.33%) Python
2 15 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.33%) Bash
4 7 (4.67%) Go
4 7 (4.67%) Rust
5 6 (4.00%) Java
5 6 (4.00%) Search Processing Language
6 5 (3.33%) C#
7 4 (2.67%) C
7 4 (2.67%) C++
7 4 (2.67%) Perl
7 4 (2.67%) Ruby
7 4 (2.67%) SQL
8 3 (2.00%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.33%) Bicep
9 2 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 34 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.67%) Degree
3 30 (20.00%) OSCP
4 23 (15.33%) CREST Certified
5 14 (9.33%) SC Cleared
6 12 (8.00%) CISSP
7 11 (7.33%) CHECK Team Member
7 11 (7.33%) DV Cleared
7 11 (7.33%) GIAC
8 10 (6.67%) CEH
8 10 (6.67%) SANS
9 9 (6.00%) CISM
9 9 (6.00%) GCIH
10 8 (5.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (5.33%) DBS Check
11 7 (4.67%) GCIA
12 6 (4.00%) CHECK Team Leader
12 6 (4.00%) Cyber Scheme
12 6 (4.00%) GCED
13 5 (3.33%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (11.33%) NIST
3 6 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.33%) GRC
5 4 (2.67%) GDPR
5 4 (2.67%) QA
6 3 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (2.00%) NCSC
6 3 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.33%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.67%) Active Directory
1 7 (4.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.33%) Nmap
2 11 (7.33%) Terraform
3 6 (4.00%) Kibana
4 4 (2.67%) Ansible
4 4 (2.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 4 (2.67%) Nessus
4 4 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.33%) VxRail
7 1 (0.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (25.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.67%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (8.00%) Splunk
4 8 (5.33%) Tanium
5 6 (4.00%) Carbon Black
6 4 (2.67%) Google
6 4 (2.67%) Qualys
6 4 (2.67%) TOWER Software
7 3 (2.00%) Cisco
7 3 (2.00%) New Relic
7 3 (2.00%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.00%) Zerto
8 2 (1.33%) Dell
8 2 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.33%) VMware
8 2 (1.33%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.67%) Intel
9 1 (0.67%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.67%) Meraki