Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts in Birmingham

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 66 70
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 0.13% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 0.43% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £583 - £420
25th Percentile £586 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - £600
75th Percentile £598 - -
90th Percentile £599 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £594 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +27.78%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 145 234 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.78% 30.27% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 155 206
10th Percentile £160 £260 £263
25th Percentile £349 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £648
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 8
10th Percentile £30.05 £18.88 £14.10
25th Percentile £30.11 £22.33 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.45 £26.00 £22.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +16.32% +26.29%
75th Percentile £30.68 £40.81 £64.69
90th Percentile - £54.80 £98.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in Birmingham

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in Birmingham

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (50.00%) Akamai
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Imperva