Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in England. 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 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 436 484
Rank change year-on-year -120 +48 +110
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 38 39 51
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.097% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.47% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 35
10th Percentile £313 £391 £385
25th Percentile £415 £476 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £779 £641
90th Percentile £789 £829 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.75
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £41.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £40.00

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,856 8,306 11,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.79% 34.09% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,163 5,460 7,564
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -0.50% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 312 820
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.68 £12.28
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.72 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% +25.47% +25.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £58.71
90th Percentile £85.49 £85.00 £67.55
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.13
% change year-on-year +38.46% +15.56% +25.08%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in England over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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 Distributed Denial-of-Service within the England region over the 6 months to 12 April 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
North of England -62 22 £446 -41.76% 1
Yorkshire -49 15 £375 -50.98% 1
London -77 8 £523 +4.50% 7
North West -32 6 £555 -
South East - 4 £790 - 2
South West - 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
East of England -43 1 £450 +55.17%
Distributed Denial-of-Service
UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) Azure
2 17 (44.74%) Akamai
2 17 (44.74%) GCP
3 16 (42.11%) AWS
4 9 (23.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (15.79%) SaaS
6 5 (13.16%) IaaS
6 5 (13.16%) PaaS
6 5 (13.16%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.63%) Google Gemini
7 1 (2.63%) LangSmith
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (57.89%) DNS
2 14 (36.84%) Network Security
3 8 (21.05%) Firewall
3 8 (21.05%) HTTP
3 8 (21.05%) SSL
4 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (13.16%) IPsec
5 5 (13.16%) Kerberos
6 3 (7.89%) BIG-IP
6 3 (7.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (7.89%) HTTPS
7 2 (5.26%) LAN
7 2 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Gatling
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) JMeter
2 1 (2.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
2 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Security Specialist
2 9 (23.68%) Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Security Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 7 (18.42%) Technical Architect
4 7 (18.42%) Technical Security Specialist
4 7 (18.42%) Technical Specialist
5 6 (15.79%) Application Security Specialist
5 6 (15.79%) Applications Specialist
6 5 (13.16%) Senior Architect
6 5 (13.16%) Senior Technical Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 3 (7.89%) Lead
7 3 (7.89%) Network Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Network Security Specialist
7 3 (7.89%) Network Specialist
7 3 (7.89%) Telecoms Specialist
8 2 (5.26%) Cloud Specialist
8 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) OAuth
1 5 (13.16%) OAuth2
1 5 (13.16%) OpenID
1 5 (13.16%) SAML
1 5 (13.16%) Web Services
1 5 (13.16%) XACML
2 1 (2.63%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (2.63%) J2EE
2 1 (2.63%) LangChain
2 1 (2.63%) LangGraph
2 1 (2.63%) LDAP
2 1 (2.63%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (2.63%) pgvector
2 1 (2.63%) React
2 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Insider Threat
3 2 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
3 11 (28.95%) Migration
4 9 (23.68%) Roadmaps
5 8 (21.05%) DDoS Mitigation
5 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
5 8 (21.05%) Incident Response
5 8 (21.05%) Security Architecture
6 7 (18.42%) DevOps
6 7 (18.42%) SIEM
6 7 (18.42%) UML
7 6 (15.79%) Agile
7 6 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (15.79%) Bot Management
7 6 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (15.79%) Microservices
7 6 (15.79%) Project Management
7 6 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (13.16%) Application Security
8 5 (13.16%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) JavaScript
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) Groovy
4 1 (2.63%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) CISSP
2 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) CCNP
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.26%) GCFA
3 2 (5.26%) GCIH
3 2 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CEH
4 1 (2.63%) CISM
4 1 (2.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) GRC
1 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.63%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.63%) NCSC
2 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) RACF
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Istio
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) F5
3 2 (5.26%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (5.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) New Relic
4 1 (2.63%) Pegasus