Purple Team Contracts

Purple Teaming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Purple Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Purple Team over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 675 846
Rank change year-on-year +105 +171 -120
Contract jobs citing Purple Team 14 22 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.040% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.044% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 2
10th Percentile £350 £519 £721
25th Percentile £398 £586 £734
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £638 £763
Median % change year-on-year -31.37% -16.39% +27.08%
75th Percentile £491 £675 £784
90th Percentile £583 £721 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £586 -
% change year-on-year -25.34% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Purple Team falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Purple Team
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Purple Team in the UK

Purple Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Purple Team in the UK

Purple Team
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Purple Team over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Purple Team in the UK

Purple Team
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +78 14 £438 -31.37% 14
UK excluding London +29 10 £438 -25.34% 10
Midlands - 10 £438 -
West Midlands - 10 £438 -
London +74 4 £475 -26.92% 4

Purple 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 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) Firewall
General
1 10 (71.43%) Legal
2 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Analyst
2 11 (78.57%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) Mac OS X
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (78.57%) SIEM
3 10 (71.43%) Computer Forensics
3 10 (71.43%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 10 (71.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 10 (71.43%) Reverse Engineering
3 10 (71.43%) Risk Management
3 10 (71.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (71.43%) Threat Analysis
3 10 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
4 9 (64.29%) Incident Management
5 5 (35.71%) Line Management
5 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
7 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 2 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (14.29%) Use Case
7 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 1 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Perl
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (85.71%) NIST
2 11 (78.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (71.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (71.43%) GDPR
3 10 (71.43%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Qualys
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat