Red Team Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Red Teaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Red Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Team over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 551 606
Rank change year-on-year +134 +55 +174
Permanent jobs citing Red Team 13 34 53
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.083% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11 27 34
10th Percentile £58,750 £41,000 £47,250
25th Percentile £63,125 £45,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.54% -9.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £74,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £116,250 £75,500 £90,850
UK median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +17.24% +7.41% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,670 30,949 40,734
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.39% 91.59% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,785 23,494 28,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Red Team
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Red Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Red Team trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Red Team
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Red Team.

Red Team salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Red Team
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Red Team over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Red Team salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Red Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Metasploit
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Games
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Penetration Tester
1 4 (30.77%) Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Service Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Security Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Blue Team
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (30.77%) Offensive Security
4 3 (23.08%) Application Security
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 3 (23.08%) Social Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Business Development
5 2 (15.38%) Coaching
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Information Security
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (7.69%) Validation
6 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Go
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) CREST Certified
2 5 (38.46%) CCSAS
2 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) CHECK Team Leader
4 3 (23.08%) CHECK Team Member
4 3 (23.08%) Cyber Scheme
4 3 (23.08%) OSCP
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 2 (15.38%) NCSC
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft