Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts in the City of London

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 168 185
Rank change year-on-year +45 +17 -32
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.092% 0.056% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.16% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £720 £519 -
25th Percentile £727 £533 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £753 £610 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.36% +28.42% -7.32%
75th Percentile £777 £733 £550
90th Percentile £783 £773 £565
Central London median daily rate £753 £610 £515
% change year-on-year +23.36% +18.45% +0.49%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Distributed Denial-of-Service is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 678 1,259 1,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.12% 35.45% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 859 1,079
10th Percentile £263 £360 £412
25th Percentile £422 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £843 £851 £808
Central London median daily rate £575 £615 £575
% change year-on-year -6.50% +6.96% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 - £37.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -24.73% +190.17%
75th Percentile £27.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £36.60 - £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £46.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -24.73% +158.69%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the City of London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the City of London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Multicast
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Genesys Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (50.00%) IVR
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Genesys
2 1 (50.00%) Google