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 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 125 132
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +28
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.041% 0.16% 0.094%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.44% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £729
25th Percentile - £488 £734
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £525 £763
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -31.15% +22.00%
75th Percentile - £563 £784
90th Percentile - - £786
Central London median daily rate £595 £525 £763
% change year-on-year +13.33% -31.15% +22.00%

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 789 677 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.73% 36.38% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 447 443
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £463 £461 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -7.63%
75th Percentile £687 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £804 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 7
10th Percentile £19.36 £16.90 £14.70
25th Percentile £21.75 £20.77 £19.00
Median hourly rate £31.03 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +20.37% -53.25%
75th Percentile £47.18 £71.37 £38.63
90th Percentile £64.47 £92.13 £67.15
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £29.07 £25.40
% change year-on-year +36.74% +14.45% -36.23%

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