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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 438 504
Rank change year-on-year -93 +66 +104
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 10 40 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.032% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.092% 0.46% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 28
10th Percentile £426 £448 £385
25th Percentile £433 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £500 £788 £631
90th Percentile £523 £830 £676
UK median daily rate £463 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -28.85% +8.33% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
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 10,831 8,702 11,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 32.58% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,859 5,236 7,692
10th Percentile £288 £275 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £535 £545
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.83% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 249 510
10th Percentile £14.54 £17.22 £15.49
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £19.99
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -3.78% +53.81%
75th Percentile £63.00 £66.50 £64.34
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.44 £75.13
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £33.77 £37.75
% change year-on-year -18.57% -10.54% +51.00%

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
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 January 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 -25 7 £475 -39.68% 4
East of England -21 1 £450 +55.17% 6
Yorkshire -45 1 - - 4
North of England -57 1 - - 10
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Akamai
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (30.00%) Network Security
3 3 (30.00%) SSL
4 2 (20.00%) Internet
5 1 (10.00%) DHCP
5 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
5 1 (10.00%) IPsec
5 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
5 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Gatling
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JMeter
1 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (10.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) Infoblox
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle