Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts in the City of London

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

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 121 164
Rank change year-on-year +4 +43 +21
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.095% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £729 £528
25th Percentile £488 £734 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £763 £625
Median % change year-on-year -31.15% +22.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £563 £784 £719
90th Percentile - £786 £768
Central London median daily rate £525 £763 £625
% change year-on-year -31.15% +22.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 617 663 1,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.00% 31.33% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 436 784
10th Percentile £350 £285 £350
25th Percentile £475 £429 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £711 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £862
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £616
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.66% +7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £20.77 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -55.98% +12.37%
75th Percentile £71.37 £27.00 £87.16
90th Percentile £92.13 £36.30 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
% change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the City of London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the City of London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
1 3 (100.00%) VMware