Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
South East median daily rate £694 - -

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Distributed Denial-of-Service falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 674 410 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.26% 36.16% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 244 322
10th Percentile £300 £304 £205
25th Percentile £363 £412 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £673
South East median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 20 33
10th Percentile £19.34 £31.31 £11.82
25th Percentile £31.25 £46.63 £20.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +44.69% -36.89%
75th Percentile £88.00 £87.84 £61.06
90th Percentile - £89.23 £69.25
South East median hourly rate £63.00 £33.89 £51.00
% change year-on-year +85.92% -33.56% -6.74%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
Wokingham - 2 £538 - 6
Distributed Denial-of-Service
South East

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) DNSSEC
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft