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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 504 519
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 +176
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 16 29 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.058% 0.089% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.29% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 62
10th Percentile £463 £464 £453
25th Percentile £472 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £563 £695 £631
90th Percentile - £776 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 9,942 10,062 13,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.81% 30.78% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 6,218 9,564
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.05%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
UK median daily rate £515 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -5.02% -1.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 416 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.73 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%

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
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
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 17 September 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 +22 11 £500 -23.08% 16
East of England +5 3 - -
Yorkshire -9 2 £500 - 1
North of England -11 2 £500 - 1
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 (18.75%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) Network Security
3 5 (31.25%) DNS
3 5 (31.25%) SSL
4 3 (18.75%) VPN
5 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.25%) FTP
6 1 (6.25%) HTTP
6 1 (6.25%) Internet
6 1 (6.25%) LAN
6 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.25%) SMTP
6 1 (6.25%) WAN
6 1 (6.25%) Wireless
6 1 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (18.75%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (56.25%) Incident Response
2 7 (43.75%) DDoS Mitigation
2 7 (43.75%) Security Operations
3 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) SIEM
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
5 3 (18.75%) RBAC
5 3 (18.75%) SOAR
5 3 (18.75%) Threat Detection
5 3 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) FinOps
6 2 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
1 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 2 (12.50%) Kustomize
4 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) Puppet
4 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) Darktrace
2 3 (18.75%) FireEye
2 3 (18.75%) Fortinet
2 3 (18.75%) LogRhythm
2 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Juniper
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) IronPort
4 1 (6.25%) Symantec