DDoS Mitigation Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring DDoS Mitigation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £529 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £596 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £563 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

DDoS Mitigation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 585 403 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.50% 92.86% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 244 298
10th Percentile £310 £291 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £558
90th Percentile £675 £639 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 31 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.47 £24.09 £17.29
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £25.14
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +29.30% +29.50%
75th Percentile £42.25 £81.75 £39.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.23% +21.69% -30.67%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DDoS Mitigation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

DDoS Mitigation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DDoS Mitigation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DDoS Mitigation

DDoS Mitigation
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
Knutsford - 1 £563 - 3
DDoS Mitigation
North West

DDoS Mitigation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Bot Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python