Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends 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 23 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 120 127
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.045% 0.056% 0.090%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.16% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £720
25th Percentile - - £727
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 - £753
75th Percentile - - £777
90th Percentile - - £783
Central London median daily rate £595 - £753

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 723 612 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.19% 34.56% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 388 475
10th Percentile £370 £363 £268
25th Percentile £463 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £587 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +2.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £695 £696 £700
90th Percentile £796 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £18.92 £37.90 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 £48.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.07 £65.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.05% +184.78% -55.77%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.75 £27.50
90th Percentile £63.13 £93.10 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £30.04 £23.00
% change year-on-year -6.78% +30.59% -34.29%

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in the City of London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management