Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period 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 Distributed Denial-of-Service 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% - -
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 Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 216 147 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.68% 33.87% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 85 113
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £361 £356 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -10.67% +17.32%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £560
90th Percentile £623 £633 £596
North West median daily rate £450 £468 £500
% change year-on-year -3.74% -6.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 17
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.13
25th Percentile £15.50 £23.40 £21.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.52 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.79% -19.14% +57.67%
75th Percentile £16.50 £42.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £21.88 £76.75 -
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year +58.12% +10.58% -25.71%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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 Distributed Denial-of-Service 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
Distributed Denial-of-Service
North West

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Bot Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
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