Red Team Job Trends in the West Midlands

Red Teaming
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 167 - 163
Rank change year-on-year - - +129
Permanent jobs citing Red Team 9 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.17% - 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% - 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £80,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -29.03% +6.90% +9.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,350 4,004 2,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.76% 90.34% 89.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,245 1,803 2,440
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,311 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,860 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Red Team job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Red Team
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Red Team
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Team in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Team in the West Midlands

Red Team
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Staffordshire - 7 £70,000 - 1
Birmingham - 2 - - 2
Red Team
England

Red Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Testing Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Operational Technology
2 3 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Domain Models
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Network Design
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Forensics
5 1 (11.11%) Offensive Security
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
1 3 (33.33%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft