Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 501 559
Rank change year-on-year +22 +58 +145
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 17 52 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.46% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 36 58
10th Percentile £476 £358 £260
25th Percentile £480 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -11.46% +4.35%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £634
90th Percentile - £703 £687
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £595
% change year-on-year - -11.76% +3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
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 8,837 11,352 15,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.63% 30.57% 33.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,647 7,308 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £280 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 840 524
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.23 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +56.48% -10.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.97
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £30.90 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.32% +58.44% -16.60%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in England.

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

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 30 June 2025.

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in England.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

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 30 June 2025. 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 +35 11 £500 -4.76% 79
East of England +19 3 - - 5
North of England +5 2 £500 -2.91% 16
Yorkshire -1 2 £500 -2.91% 6
Midlands +8 1 £588 +8.80% 4
West Midlands - 1 £588 - 4
Distributed Denial-of-Service
UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (11.76%) AWS KMS
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) GitHub
1 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (11.76%) Serverless
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
2 6 (35.29%) VPN
3 5 (29.41%) Network Security
4 4 (23.53%) LAN
4 4 (23.53%) WAN
4 4 (23.53%) Wireless
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (17.65%) DNS
5 3 (17.65%) IPsec
5 3 (17.65%) MPLS
5 3 (17.65%) NGFW
5 3 (17.65%) SSL
6 2 (11.76%) HTTP
6 2 (11.76%) Internet
6 2 (11.76%) PSTN
6 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (11.76%) VoIP
7 1 (5.88%) FTP
7 1 (5.88%) SMTP
7 1 (5.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Jasmine
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Legal
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Security Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Security Operations Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Security Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Network Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Batch
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Security
2 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (23.53%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Incident Response
2 8 (47.06%) Security Operations
3 7 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) SIEM
5 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
5 5 (29.41%) Migration
5 5 (29.41%) Network Load Balancing
6 4 (23.53%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (23.53%) SOAR
7 3 (17.65%) Agile
7 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 3 (17.65%) DDoS Mitigation
7 3 (17.65%) DevOps
7 3 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (17.65%) RBAC
7 3 (17.65%) Threat Detection
7 3 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) CCNA
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
1 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Kustomize
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
2 2 (11.76%) Puppet
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Splunk
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco
2 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) Aruba
3 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
3 3 (17.65%) Darktrace
3 3 (17.65%) F5
3 3 (17.65%) FireEye
3 3 (17.65%) Juniper
3 3 (17.65%) LogRhythm
4 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.88%) IronPort
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Symantec