Purple Team Job Trends in Yorkshire

Purple Teaming
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Purple Team skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Purple Team 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.030% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% -15.71% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,969 3,734 3,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.68% 79.94% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 1,726 2,557
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,797
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%

Purple Team
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Purple Team within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
West Yorkshire - 1 £57,500 - 1
Purple Team
England

Purple Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSSTMM
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) OSCE
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nmap