Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts in the UK excluding London

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 395 488
Rank change year-on-year +21 +93 -56
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 26 43 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.59% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 35 24
10th Percentile £290 - £500
25th Percentile £454 £260 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £631
90th Percentile £650 £645 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -11.02% +2.61% -4.17%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,976 7,331 9,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.69% 32.18% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,569 4,915 6,831
10th Percentile £208 £219 £206
25th Percentile £375 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £585
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 742 414 429
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.09 £10.63 £15.93
Median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £62.17
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
% change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK excluding London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
East of England -7 11 £650 +8.33% 1
Yorkshire +22 6 £558 -
Midlands +22 6 £540 -1.82% 1
North of England +17 6 £558 +6.19%
East Midlands - 4 £540 -
West Midlands +9 2 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 7
South West - 1 £600 - 1
Wales - 1 £363 - 1
Distributed Denial-of-Service
UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (42.31%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Akamai
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
1 7 (26.92%) Cloudflare
2 2 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) IaaS
3 1 (3.85%) PaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) DNS
2 5 (19.23%) Firewall
2 5 (19.23%) SSL
3 4 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (15.38%) FTP
3 4 (15.38%) HTTP
3 4 (15.38%) SAN
3 4 (15.38%) SMTP
4 3 (11.54%) Wireshark
5 2 (7.69%) Network Security
6 1 (3.85%) IPsec
6 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
6 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
General
1 6 (23.08%) Retail
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Analyst
1 11 (42.31%) Senior
1 11 (42.31%) SOC Analyst
2 8 (30.77%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Junior
4 3 (11.54%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Security Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) EMC Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) EMC Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Security Officer
6 1 (3.85%) Security Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) LDAP
2 1 (3.85%) JWT
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) OAuth
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Cyberattack
2 8 (30.77%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (11.54%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Linux
1 15 (57.69%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) AIX
2 4 (15.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (46.15%) Incident Response
3 8 (30.77%) Security Operations
4 5 (19.23%) OWASP
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
5 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (11.54%) RAD
5 3 (11.54%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (7.69%) Application Security
6 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 2 (7.69%) Statistics
7 1 (3.85%) Microservices
7 1 (3.85%) Threat Modelling
7 1 (3.85%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) Bash
1 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.69%) CCNP
5 1 (3.85%) CCNA
5 1 (3.85%) CEH
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (11.54%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (11.54%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Darktrace
1 11 (42.31%) FireEye
1 11 (42.31%) LogRhythm
1 11 (42.31%) Splunk
2 7 (26.92%) Symantec
3 6 (23.08%) F5
4 4 (15.38%) Brocade
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco
4 4 (15.38%) EMC
4 4 (15.38%) IronPort
5 3 (11.54%) HP
6 2 (7.69%) Oracle
7 1 (3.85%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft