Red Team Contracts

Red Teaming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Red Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Red Team over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 646 829
Rank change year-on-year +110 +183 -152
Contract jobs citing Red Team 35 50 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.088% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.098% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 22
10th Percentile £488 £489 £475
25th Percentile £553 £547 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +14.29% +5.79%
75th Percentile £650 £659 £628
90th Percentile £684 £700 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £586 £543
% change year-on-year +2.39% +8.02% +12.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Red 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,539 50,904 80,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.04% 89.75% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,560 35,264 56,167
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £440 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,684 1,915
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.51
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%

Red Team
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Team in the UK

Red Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Red Team in the UK

Red Team
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Team over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Red Team in the UK

Red Team
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Team within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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
England +84 32 £590 -1.67% 21
UK excluding London +45 16 £600 +2.39% 14
London +79 14 £590 -5.60% 6
Work from Home +112 13 £600 -2.04% 20
North of England +25 8 £625 +6.66% 2
South West +12 5 £575 -11.54% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £650 -
North West +18 2 £513 -12.54% 2
North East - 2 £625 -
East of England - 2 £750 -
South East +17 1 £575 -3.77% 4

Red Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (11.43%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.86%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) GCP
3 1 (2.86%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) Wireless
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
3 2 (5.71%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.86%) 4G
4 1 (2.86%) 5G
4 1 (2.86%) LTE
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Burp Suite
2 3 (8.57%) Metasploit
General
1 10 (28.57%) Banking
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Legal
5 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Penetration Tester
1 12 (34.29%) Tester
2 6 (17.14%) Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Security Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Cyber Threat Specialist
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Security Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Applications Tester
5 2 (5.71%) Junior
5 2 (5.71%) Junior Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Security Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Lead
6 1 (2.86%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Mobile App
2 11 (31.43%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (28.57%) Security Posture
4 7 (20.00%) Operational Technology
5 5 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (8.57%) IoT
7 2 (5.71%) Cyberattack
7 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.86%) CSOC
8 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.86%) Insider Threat
8 1 (2.86%) PKI
8 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (42.86%) Linux
1 15 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) Penetration Testing
2 24 (68.57%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (45.71%) Security Operations
4 11 (31.43%) Application Security
4 11 (31.43%) Offensive Security
5 10 (28.57%) Blue Team
6 9 (25.71%) Cyber Intelligence
6 9 (25.71%) Incident Response
6 9 (25.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 8 (22.86%) Threat Detection
7 8 (22.86%) Threat Intelligence
8 7 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 7 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
8 7 (20.00%) OWASP
8 7 (20.00%) SIEM
8 7 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (17.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) C++
3 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.43%) C#
5 3 (8.57%) Go
5 3 (8.57%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (8.57%) Perl
6 2 (5.71%) C
6 2 (5.71%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) Ruby
6 2 (5.71%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) Bash
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) CREST Certified
1 15 (42.86%) OSCP
2 11 (31.43%) GIAC
2 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
3 9 (25.71%) CEH
4 7 (20.00%) GPEN
5 4 (11.43%) CISSP
6 3 (8.57%) CHECK Team Leader
7 2 (5.71%) CISM
7 2 (5.71%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.86%) Degree
8 1 (2.86%) ECSA
8 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (45.71%) NIST
2 3 (8.57%) NIST 800
3 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.71%) SLA
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Nessus
2 1 (2.86%) HP Fortify
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Nmap
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.86%) Qualys
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) VMware