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 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 125 144
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +45
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 0.47% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £441 - £596
25th Percentile £471 £725 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £619
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +21.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £563 £775 £636
90th Percentile - - £637
Central London median daily rate £525 £750 £619
% change year-on-year -30.00% +21.21% -17.50%

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 663 645 871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.84% 30.80% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 400 558
10th Percentile £350 £356 £318
25th Percentile £439 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -4.56% -3.96% +3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 11
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £56.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.45% +55.56% -28.71%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £49.88
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +1.85% -14.96% -37.13%

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 (25.00%) Akamai
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Security Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) SOAR
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto