Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in Bristol. 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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.18% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 302 126 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.66% 24.23% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 66 161
10th Percentile £256 £144 £300
25th Percentile £408 £302 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £553 £560 £650
90th Percentile £631 £668 £711
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 18 65
10th Percentile £15.60 £38.80 £36.25
25th Percentile £33.50 £51.19 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +18.64% +461.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.24% +56.25% +196.30%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in Bristol

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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%) Akamai
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Security Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Security Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript