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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 502 498
Rank change year-on-year -84 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 48 16 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.057% 0.075%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 15
10th Percentile £419 £454 £443
25th Percentile £498 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £640
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -21.88% +4.49%
75th Percentile £592 £563 £703
90th Percentile £769 - £783
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 16,028 10,176 9,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 36.41% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,641 6,374 5,981
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £648 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £526
% change year-on-year +1.32% -1.49% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,170 529 364
10th Percentile £13.89 £15.13 £15.92
25th Percentile £17.52 £18.87 £24.42
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £56.93
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -47.30% +23.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.06 £48.50
% change year-on-year +28.29% -42.14% +8.38%

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 7 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 7 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 -72 20 £550 +7.32% 45
South East - 13 £586 - 7
North of England -61 9 £437 -12.70% 6
West Midlands - 5 - - 3
Midlands - 5 - - 3
North West - 5 £437 - 6
Yorkshire -32 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 31 (64.58%) Azure
2 30 (62.50%) AWS
3 17 (35.42%) GCP
4 12 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (20.83%) Route 53
6 7 (14.58%) Akamai
7 6 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (10.42%) Datadog
9 4 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
10 3 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (6.25%) OCI
11 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (4.17%) Serverless
12 1 (2.08%) CloudFront
12 1 (2.08%) Kong
12 1 (2.08%) PaaS
12 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
12 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (56.25%) Firewall
2 26 (54.17%) DNS
2 26 (54.17%) Network Security
3 19 (39.58%) TCP/IP
4 13 (27.08%) HTTP
5 12 (25.00%) DNSSEC
6 10 (20.83%) VPN
7 9 (18.75%) BGP
7 9 (18.75%) SSL
8 7 (14.58%) DHCP
9 6 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (12.50%) IPsec
10 5 (10.42%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (10.42%) MPLS
10 5 (10.42%) NGFW
10 5 (10.42%) OSPF
10 5 (10.42%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (8.33%) LAN
11 4 (8.33%) VLAN
11 4 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (43.75%) Architect
2 11 (22.92%) Security Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Network Architect
4 7 (14.58%) Network Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Network Technical Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.08%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.08%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Software Development Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) Terraform
2 4 (8.33%) CSS
3 2 (4.17%) JWT
3 2 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (2.08%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.08%) LangChain
4 1 (2.08%) LangGraph
4 1 (2.08%) OpenID
4 1 (2.08%) pgvector
4 1 (2.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (10.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (10.42%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.33%) Private Cloud
4 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.17%) PKI
5 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) Insider Threat
6 1 (2.08%) SCADA
6 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (4.17%) AIX
4 1 (2.08%) CentOS
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) DDoS Mitigation
2 19 (39.58%) Zero Trust
3 18 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 15 (31.25%) SIEM
6 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (29.17%) Load Balancing
7 10 (20.83%) Network Segmentation
8 9 (18.75%) Cloud Security
8 9 (18.75%) Runbook
9 8 (16.67%) Agile
9 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 8 (16.67%) High Availability
10 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (12.50%) Application Security
11 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (10.42%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) Python
2 9 (18.75%) Bash
3 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.33%) SQL
5 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) CCNP
2 10 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (16.67%) Degree
5 5 (10.42%) CISSP
6 4 (8.33%) CCIE
6 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.17%) CCIE Security
7 2 (4.17%) GCIH
7 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (4.17%) PMP
7 2 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (2.08%) CCNA
8 1 (2.08%) CCSE
8 1 (2.08%) CEH
8 1 (2.08%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) NIST
2 4 (8.33%) NCSC
3 3 (6.25%) NIST 800
4 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.08%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Grafana
2 3 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (4.17%) Istio
4 1 (2.08%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (25.00%) Cisco
2 12 (25.00%) Google
2 12 (25.00%) Infoblox
3 11 (22.92%) Palo Alto
4 6 (12.50%) VMware
5 4 (8.33%) CheckPoint
5 4 (8.33%) F5
6 3 (6.25%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.25%) Meraki
6 3 (6.25%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.17%) AlgoSec
7 2 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.08%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (2.08%) ForeScout
8 1 (2.08%) Intel
8 1 (2.08%) Pegasus