Purple Team Contracts in England

Purple Teaming
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Purple Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Purple Team over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 614 779
Rank change year-on-year +91 +165 -135
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 20 24 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.051% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.056% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 2
10th Percentile £375 £526 £721
25th Percentile £406 £586 £734
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £650 £763
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -14.75% +29.79%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £784
90th Percentile £769 £720 £794
UK median daily rate £438 £650 £763
% change year-on-year -32.69% -14.75% +27.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Purple Team is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Purple Team in England.

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Purple Team in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Purple Team in England

Purple Team
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Purple Team within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 11 £438 - 1
West Midlands - 11 £438 - 1
London +79 6 £690 +6.15% 1
North of England +19 3 - - 2
North West +12 3 - - 2
South West +9 3 - - 1
Purple Team
UK

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 11 (55.00%) Legal
2 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Analyst
2 12 (60.00%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Ethical Hacker
4 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Junior
5 1 (5.00%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) Linux
2 11 (55.00%) Mac OS X
3 5 (25.00%) Kali Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (60.00%) SIEM
3 11 (55.00%) Computer Forensics
3 11 (55.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 11 (55.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 11 (55.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 11 (55.00%) Risk Management
3 11 (55.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 11 (55.00%) Threat Analysis
3 11 (55.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 10 (50.00%) Incident Management
5 7 (35.00%) Cloud Security
6 6 (30.00%) Line Management
6 6 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (25.00%) Agile
7 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
7 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (95.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (65.00%) NIST
2 12 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (55.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 11 (55.00%) GDPR
3 11 (55.00%) HIPAA
4 5 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Qualys
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat