Purple Team Contracts in the Midlands

Purple Teaming
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £348 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £503 - -
England median daily rate £438 £650 £763
% change year-on-year -32.69% -14.75% +29.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,269 2,844 4,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.47% 87.70% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,992 3,255
10th Percentile £231 £260 £246
25th Percentile £357 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +12.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 140
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +27.62% +17.53%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £22.94
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in the Midlands

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in the Midlands

Purple Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Purple Team in the Midlands

Purple Team
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands - 11 £438 - 1
Purple Team
England

Purple Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 11 (100.00%) Legal
2 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Analyst
1 11 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Junior
2 1 (9.09%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Computer Forensics
1 11 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 11 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 11 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 11 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 11 (100.00%) SIEM
1 11 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 11 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 11 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 10 (90.91%) Incident Management
3 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (45.45%) Line Management
5 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 11 (100.00%) GDPR
1 11 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 11 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (100.00%) NIST