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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 490 498
Rank change year-on-year -61 +8 +38
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 69 16 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.058% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.17% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 11 27
10th Percentile £414 £463 £451
25th Percentile £430 £469 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £596 £544 £668
90th Percentile £780 £563 £753
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £539
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.19% -10.21%
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 14,912 9,614 10,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.26% 34.95% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,224 6,078 6,877
10th Percentile £322 £305 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 828 477 594
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.16% -28.78% +12.04%
75th Percentile £71.00 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £86.08 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.75 £41.13
% change year-on-year +47.76% -27.66% +15.85%

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 29 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 29 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 -50 25 £439 -12.20% 3
London -50 23 £550 +10.00% 3
Yorkshire -29 17 £375 -25.00%
South East - 15 £590 - 3
North West - 7 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
North East - 2 - -
South West - 2 - - 2
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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 38 (55.07%) Azure
2 35 (50.72%) AWS
3 30 (43.48%) GCP
4 21 (30.43%) Akamai
5 12 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (13.04%) Route 53
7 6 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (7.25%) Datadog
8 5 (7.25%) SaaS
9 4 (5.80%) PaaS
10 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.35%) IaaS
10 3 (4.35%) OCI
10 3 (4.35%) Serverless
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 43 (62.32%) DNS
2 33 (47.83%) Network Security
3 27 (39.13%) Firewall
4 24 (34.78%) TCP/IP
5 20 (28.99%) HTTP
6 15 (21.74%) SSL
7 11 (15.94%) DNSSEC
8 9 (13.04%) BGP
8 9 (13.04%) IPsec
9 6 (8.70%) BIG-IP
9 6 (8.70%) DHCP
9 6 (8.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (8.70%) VPN
10 5 (7.25%) LAN
10 5 (7.25%) MPLS
10 5 (7.25%) OSPF
10 5 (7.25%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (7.25%) WAN
11 4 (5.80%) NGFW
12 3 (4.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.49%) Finance
4 6 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Banking
7 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Military
8 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (36.23%) Architect
2 16 (23.19%) Security Engineer
3 12 (17.39%) Security Specialist
4 10 (14.49%) Network Architect
5 8 (11.59%) Technical Architect
6 7 (10.14%) Technical Security Specialist
6 7 (10.14%) Technical Specialist
7 6 (8.70%) Application Security Specialist
7 6 (8.70%) Applications Specialist
7 6 (8.70%) Lead
8 5 (7.25%) Lead Architect
8 5 (7.25%) Senior
8 5 (7.25%) Technical Leader
9 4 (5.80%) Network Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Network Security Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Network Technical Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Security Architect
10 3 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Architect
10 3 (4.35%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) CSS
2 3 (4.35%) OAuth
2 3 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 3 (4.35%) OpenID
2 3 (4.35%) SAML
2 3 (4.35%) Web Services
2 3 (4.35%) XACML
3 1 (1.45%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (1.45%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.45%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.45%) JWT
3 1 (1.45%) LangChain
3 1 (1.45%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.45%) LDAP
3 1 (1.45%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (1.45%) pgvector
3 1 (1.45%) React
3 1 (1.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.25%) Private Cloud
3 4 (5.80%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.90%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.90%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.45%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.45%) PKI
5 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.45%) SCADA
5 1 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Linux
3 2 (2.90%) AIX
4 1 (1.45%) CentOS
4 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.72%) DDoS Mitigation
2 24 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (31.88%) Incident Response
4 19 (27.54%) SIEM
5 18 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (24.64%) Zero Trust
7 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
8 15 (21.74%) Load Balancing
9 12 (17.39%) Migration
10 11 (15.94%) High Availability
11 10 (14.49%) Agile
11 10 (14.49%) Bot Management
12 9 (13.04%) Application Security
12 9 (13.04%) OWASP
12 9 (13.04%) Roadmaps
12 9 (13.04%) Runbook
12 9 (13.04%) Security Architecture
13 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (11.59%) DevOps
13 8 (11.59%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.54%) Python
2 10 (14.49%) Bash
3 9 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.59%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.59%) SQL
5 1 (1.45%) Groovy
5 1 (1.45%) Java
5 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.59%) Degree
4 7 (10.14%) CCNP
4 7 (10.14%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.25%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.35%) CISSP
7 2 (2.90%) CCIE
7 2 (2.90%) GCFA
7 2 (2.90%) GCIH
8 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.45%) CEH
8 1 (1.45%) CISA
8 1 (1.45%) CISM
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.45%) PMP
8 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) NCSC
1 4 (5.80%) NIST
2 3 (4.35%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.90%) GRC
3 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) RACF
1 3 (4.35%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (27.54%) Terraform
2 5 (7.25%) Grafana
3 3 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.90%) Ansible
5 1 (1.45%) Istio
5 1 (1.45%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 22 (31.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.39%) Google
3 11 (15.94%) Infoblox
4 8 (11.59%) Palo Alto
5 7 (10.14%) Cisco
5 7 (10.14%) VMware
6 6 (8.70%) F5
7 3 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.90%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.90%) Meraki
9 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.45%) Pegasus