DDoS Mitigation Contracts

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DDoS Mitigation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 707 841
Rank change year-on-year +120 +134 -151
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 13 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.015% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.017% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 12
10th Percentile - £490 £368
25th Percentile £425 £500 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +11.65% -2.60%
75th Percentile £475 £619 £571
90th Percentile £548 £683 £796
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £515
% change year-on-year - +21.36% +8.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DDoS Mitigation 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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DDoS Mitigation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DDoS Mitigation.

Daily rate trend for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DDoS Mitigation within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +123 12 £450 -21.74% 4
London +117 10 £450 -10.00% 4
Work from Home +132 8 £450 -10.00% 3
UK excluding London +56 1 - - 3
Midlands +29 1 - -
West Midlands +23 1 - -

DDoS Mitigation
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 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Entra ID
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) DNS
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) HTTP
3 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (7.69%) IPv4
3 1 (7.69%) IPv6
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) MPLS
3 1 (7.69%) VPLS
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
1 1 (7.69%) XML
1 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
1 8 (61.54%) Windows 10
1 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Mobile Device Management
1 7 (53.85%) Vulnerability Management
1 7 (53.85%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Agile
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.69%) Network Design
4 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
4 1 (7.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CCIE
3 1 (7.69%) CEH
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) CA
2 7 (53.85%) Qualys
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) F5
3 1 (7.69%) Juniper
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto