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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 479 502
Rank change year-on-year -69 +23 +58
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 67 17 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.066% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.19% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 12 36
10th Percentile £413 £476 £358
25th Percentile £425 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -5.88% -11.46%
75th Percentile £596 £563 £650
90th Percentile £784 - £703
UK median daily rate £553 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +5.24% - -11.76%
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 14,397 8,905 11,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.85% 34.74% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,957 5,698 7,319
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.64% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 782 426 840
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.70 £12.23
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -10.81% +56.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.07 £81.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £31.29 £35.65
% change year-on-year +35.21% -12.24% +58.44%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -51 26 £439 -12.20% 2
London -59 22 £525 +5.00% 9
Yorkshire -34 18 £375 -25.00% 1
South East - 15 £590 - 8
North West - 7 £500 - 1
North East - 2 - -
South West - 2 - -
West Midlands -52 1 - - 1
Midlands -58 1 - - 1
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 5 (7.46%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 39 (58.21%) Azure
2 35 (52.24%) AWS
3 31 (46.27%) GCP
4 19 (28.36%) Akamai
5 11 (16.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (13.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (13.43%) Route 53
7 6 (8.96%) SaaS
8 5 (7.46%) PaaS
8 5 (7.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (5.97%) IaaS
9 4 (5.97%) Serverless
10 3 (4.48%) Datadog
10 3 (4.48%) OCI
11 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.49%) GitHub
12 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 41 (61.19%) DNS
2 32 (47.76%) Network Security
3 28 (41.79%) Firewall
4 21 (31.34%) TCP/IP
5 18 (26.87%) HTTP
6 14 (20.90%) SSL
7 10 (14.93%) DNSSEC
7 10 (14.93%) IPsec
8 9 (13.43%) BGP
9 6 (8.96%) BIG-IP
9 6 (8.96%) DHCP
9 6 (8.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (8.96%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (8.96%) VPN
10 5 (7.46%) LAN
10 5 (7.46%) MPLS
10 5 (7.46%) OSPF
10 5 (7.46%) WAN
11 4 (5.97%) Kerberos
11 4 (5.97%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) JIRA
1 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.93%) Finance
4 6 (8.96%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.46%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Legal
7 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) Military
8 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Architect
2 14 (20.90%) Security Engineer
3 12 (17.91%) Security Specialist
4 10 (14.93%) Network Architect
5 9 (13.43%) Technical Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Technical Security Specialist
6 7 (10.45%) Technical Specialist
7 6 (8.96%) Application Security Specialist
7 6 (8.96%) Applications Specialist
7 6 (8.96%) Lead
7 6 (8.96%) Senior
8 5 (7.46%) Lead Architect
8 5 (7.46%) Security Architect
8 5 (7.46%) Technical Leader
9 4 (5.97%) Network Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Network Security Architect
9 4 (5.97%) Network Technical Architect
9 4 (5.97%) Senior Architect
9 4 (5.97%) Senior Technical Architect
10 3 (4.48%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) CSS
1 4 (5.97%) OAuth
1 4 (5.97%) OAuth2
1 4 (5.97%) OpenID
1 4 (5.97%) SAML
1 4 (5.97%) Web Services
1 4 (5.97%) XACML
2 1 (1.49%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (1.49%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.49%) J2EE
2 1 (1.49%) JWT
2 1 (1.49%) LangChain
2 1 (1.49%) LangGraph
2 1 (1.49%) LDAP
2 1 (1.49%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (1.49%) pgvector
2 1 (1.49%) React
2 1 (1.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.46%) Private Cloud
3 4 (5.97%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.48%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.99%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) PKI
6 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) AIX
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.76%) DDoS Mitigation
2 25 (37.31%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (29.85%) Incident Response
4 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (25.37%) SIEM
5 16 (23.88%) Zero Trust
6 15 (22.39%) CI/CD
6 15 (22.39%) Load Balancing
7 12 (17.91%) Migration
8 11 (16.42%) Agile
8 11 (16.42%) High Availability
8 11 (16.42%) Roadmaps
9 10 (14.93%) Decision-Making
9 10 (14.93%) Security Architecture
10 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (13.43%) OWASP
11 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.94%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.36%) Python
2 10 (14.93%) Bash
3 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
3 9 (13.43%) SQL
4 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.49%) Groovy
5 1 (1.49%) Java
5 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) Degree
2 8 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) CCNP
3 7 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.48%) CISSP
6 2 (2.99%) CCIE
6 2 (2.99%) GCFA
6 2 (2.99%) GCIH
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.49%) CEH
7 1 (1.49%) CISA
7 1 (1.49%) CISM
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.49%) PMP
7 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.49%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) NIST
2 3 (4.48%) NCSC
2 3 (4.48%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.99%) GRC
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) RACF
2 3 (4.48%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Terraform
2 4 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.48%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.49%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.91%) Google
3 10 (14.93%) Infoblox
4 8 (11.94%) Palo Alto
5 6 (8.96%) Cisco
5 6 (8.96%) F5
5 6 (8.96%) VMware
6 3 (4.48%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.99%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (2.99%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.99%) Meraki
8 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.49%) Pegasus