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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 485 504
Rank change year-on-year -107 +19 +16
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 50 16 29
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.058% 0.089%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.16% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 20
10th Percentile £426 £463 £464
25th Percentile £500 £472 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £594 £563 £695
90th Percentile £786 - £776
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% -6.25%
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 15,608 9,968 10,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.85% 35.90% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,443 6,260 6,229
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,045 499 418
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.50 £14.89
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -79 21 £550 +10.00% 48
South East - 14 £590 - 6
North of England -69 9 £437 -12.70% 11
West Midlands - 5 - - 2
Midlands - 5 - - 2
North West - 5 £437 - 8
Yorkshire -43 4 - - 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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) Azure
2 29 (58.00%) AWS
3 16 (32.00%) GCP
4 12 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (20.00%) Route 53
6 7 (14.00%) Akamai
7 6 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (10.00%) Datadog
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.00%) OCI
10 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (2.00%) CloudFront
11 1 (2.00%) GitHub
11 1 (2.00%) PaaS
11 1 (2.00%) SaaS
11 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (60.00%) Firewall
2 28 (56.00%) Network Security
3 27 (54.00%) DNS
4 22 (44.00%) TCP/IP
5 15 (30.00%) HTTP
6 12 (24.00%) DNSSEC
6 12 (24.00%) SSL
7 9 (18.00%) BGP
7 9 (18.00%) VPN
8 7 (14.00%) DHCP
9 6 (12.00%) BIG-IP
9 6 (12.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (12.00%) IPsec
10 5 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (10.00%) LAN
10 5 (10.00%) MPLS
10 5 (10.00%) OSPF
10 5 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (20.00%) Finance
1 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Architect
2 11 (22.00%) Security Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Network Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Network Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Lead
5 5 (10.00%) Lead Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Technical Leader
6 4 (8.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Network Technical Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Network Security Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Network Security Specialist
7 3 (6.00%) Network Specialist
7 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Security Specialist
7 3 (6.00%) Telecoms Specialist
8 2 (4.00%) Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) CSS
3 2 (4.00%) JWT
4 1 (2.00%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.00%) LangChain
4 1 (2.00%) LangGraph
4 1 (2.00%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (2.00%) OpenID
4 1 (2.00%) pgvector
4 1 (2.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
6 2 (4.00%) PKI
6 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.00%) Insider Threat
7 1 (2.00%) SCADA
7 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) AIX
4 1 (2.00%) CentOS
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 18 (36.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (36.00%) Zero Trust
3 16 (32.00%) Load Balancing
4 15 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 15 (30.00%) SIEM
5 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (22.00%) High Availability
7 9 (18.00%) Application Security
7 9 (18.00%) Network Segmentation
8 8 (16.00%) Agile
8 8 (16.00%) Cloud Security
8 8 (16.00%) Runbook
9 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
9 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (12.00%) Decision-Making
10 6 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
10 6 (12.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) Python
2 9 (18.00%) Bash
3 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.00%) SQL
5 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.00%) CCNP
2 10 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (18.00%) Degree
3 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (8.00%) CISSP
6 3 (6.00%) CCIE
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.00%) GCIH
7 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (4.00%) PMI Certification
7 2 (4.00%) PMP
7 2 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.00%) CCIE Security
8 1 (2.00%) GCFA
8 1 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) NIST
2 4 (8.00%) NCSC
3 3 (6.00%) NIST 800
4 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.00%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Grafana
2 3 (6.00%) Ansible
3 2 (4.00%) Istio
4 1 (2.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (42.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.00%) Infoblox
3 11 (22.00%) Cisco
3 11 (22.00%) Google
4 10 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 7 (14.00%) F5
5 7 (14.00%) VMware
6 3 (6.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (6.00%) Meraki
6 3 (6.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.00%) AlgoSec
7 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.00%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (2.00%) ForeScout
8 1 (2.00%) Intel
8 1 (2.00%) Pegasus