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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 507 502
Rank change year-on-year -92 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 46 16 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.098% 0.057% 0.081%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.16% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 16
10th Percentile £419 £454 £447
25th Percentile £498 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £620
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -19.35% +1.22%
75th Percentile £592 £563 £695
90th Percentile £769 - £781
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £66.66 - -
UK median hourly rate £66.66 - -

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 16,203 10,255 9,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.60% 36.46% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,736 6,418 5,966
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £644 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £820
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £529
% change year-on-year +1.25% -1.94% -3.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,208 534 351
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.78 £16.85
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.51 £24.34
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -44.34% +14.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.13 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +30.58% -40.45% +2.62%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -93 20 £550 +7.32% 41
South East - 11 £581 - 6
North of England -64 9 £437 -12.70% 4
West Midlands - 5 - - 1
Midlands - 5 - - 1
North West - 5 £437 - 4
Yorkshire -31 4 - -
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 6 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.17%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (63.04%) AWS
1 29 (63.04%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) GCP
3 12 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (21.74%) Route 53
5 7 (15.22%) Akamai
6 6 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (10.87%) Datadog
8 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (8.70%) OCI
9 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
9 3 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (4.35%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (4.35%) SaaS
10 2 (4.35%) Serverless
11 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (58.70%) DNS
1 27 (58.70%) Network Security
2 26 (56.52%) Firewall
3 19 (41.30%) TCP/IP
4 13 (28.26%) HTTP
5 12 (26.09%) DNSSEC
6 10 (21.74%) BGP
6 10 (21.74%) VPN
7 9 (19.57%) SSL
8 7 (15.22%) DHCP
9 6 (13.04%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (13.04%) IPsec
9 6 (13.04%) OSPF
10 5 (10.87%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (10.87%) MPLS
10 5 (10.87%) NGFW
10 5 (10.87%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (8.70%) Internet
11 4 (8.70%) VLAN
12 3 (6.52%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 10 (21.74%) Finance
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Architect
2 11 (23.91%) Security Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Network Architect
4 7 (15.22%) Network Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Lead
5 4 (8.70%) Network Security Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Lead Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.35%) Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Network Technical Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Development Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Network Project Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) Terraform
2 4 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (4.35%) JWT
4 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.17%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (2.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.52%) Private Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.35%) PKI
6 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) SCADA
6 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Linux
3 2 (4.35%) AIX
4 1 (2.17%) CentOS
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (71.74%) DDoS Mitigation
2 20 (43.48%) Zero Trust
3 18 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (32.61%) Incident Response
4 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (32.61%) Load Balancing
5 14 (30.43%) SIEM
6 10 (21.74%) Network Segmentation
6 10 (21.74%) Runbook
7 9 (19.57%) High Availability
8 8 (17.39%) Agile
8 8 (17.39%) Cloud Security
9 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
9 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.04%) Application Security
10 6 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (10.87%) ITIL
11 5 (10.87%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 9 (19.57%) Bash
3 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) CCNP
2 9 (19.57%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) CCIE
4 4 (8.70%) CISSP
5 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.35%) CCIE Security
6 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.35%) PMP
6 2 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (2.17%) CCSA
7 1 (2.17%) CISA
7 1 (2.17%) CISM
7 1 (2.17%) GCIA
7 1 (2.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) NIST
2 4 (8.70%) NCSC
3 3 (6.52%) NIST 800
4 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Grafana
2 4 (8.70%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Istio
3 1 (2.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.26%) Google
3 12 (26.09%) Cisco
3 12 (26.09%) Infoblox
4 11 (23.91%) Palo Alto
5 5 (10.87%) VMware
6 4 (8.70%) CheckPoint
6 4 (8.70%) F5
7 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.52%) Meraki
7 3 (6.52%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.35%) AlgoSec
8 2 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
9 1 (2.17%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (2.17%) Bloomberg
9 1 (2.17%) ForeScout
9 1 (2.17%) Intel
9 1 (2.17%) Oracle
9 1 (2.17%) Reuters