Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts in Central London

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in Central London. 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 128 131 170
Rank change year-on-year +3 +39 +20
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.050% 0.082% 0.052%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £720 £519
25th Percentile - £727 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £753 £610
Median % change year-on-year - +23.36% +18.45%
75th Percentile - £777 £733
90th Percentile - £783 £773
London median daily rate £525 £513 £563
% change year-on-year +2.44% -8.89% +2.27%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in Central London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in Central London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +7 1 - - 2
Distributed Denial-of-Service
London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Kernel Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes