DDoS Mitigation Contract Job Trends in England

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DDoS Mitigation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 474 535
Rank change year-on-year -70 +61 +126
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 4 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.012% 0.023% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.026% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - £445 £385
25th Percentile £513 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -21.74%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £475
90th Percentile - £570 £488
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -21.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

DDoS Mitigation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,128 23,342 33,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.51% 89.73% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,638 14,331 22,291
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,831 740 1,986
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.03 £16.54
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% - -
75th Percentile £60.13 £64.50 £61.62
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.66 £34.36
% change year-on-year -22.98% -4.95% +5.71%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DDoS Mitigation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

DDoS Mitigation job vacancy trend in England

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DDoS Mitigation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DDoS Mitigation

DDoS Mitigation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DDoS Mitigation within the England region over the 6 months to 9 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -38 3 £525 - 1
DDoS Mitigation
UK

DDoS Mitigation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Bot Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto