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 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 118 125
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 +29
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.092% 0.23% 0.048%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.59% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £441 -
25th Percentile £713 £471 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £525 £750
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -30.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £738 £563 £775
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £725 £525 £750
% change year-on-year +38.10% -30.00% +20.00%

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 820 681 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.79% 39.46% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 482 389
10th Percentile £350 £361 £354
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.27% -3.27%
75th Percentile £688 £693 £725
90th Percentile £775 £799 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.90 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £19.11 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.07 £24.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.39% -8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.39 -
90th Percentile £64.65 £72.53 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £36.66 £25.08 £25.79
% change year-on-year +46.20% -2.77% -27.35%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE Security
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto