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 2 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 459 495
Rank change year-on-year -93 +36 +75
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 48 20 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.083% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.24% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 39
10th Percentile £323 £476 -
25th Percentile £417 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £593 £563 £650
90th Percentile £778 £591 £723
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -11.02%
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 13,457 8,260 11,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.29% 34.30% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,463 5,364 7,333
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -3.18% -3.51%
75th Percentile £634 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 702 345 837
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £43.60 £34.34 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% -3.67% +58.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £87.35 £83.05 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.24% -5.71% +57.30%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -55 25 £439 -12.20% 3
Yorkshire -47 17 £375 -25.00%
London -63 17 £525 +5.00% 2
North West - 7 £500 - 3
South East - 4 £790 -
South West - 2 - - 2
North East - 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 5 (10.42%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 19 (39.58%) Akamai
3 18 (37.50%) AWS
3 18 (37.50%) GCP
4 9 (18.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (14.58%) SaaS
6 6 (12.50%) PaaS
7 5 (10.42%) IaaS
7 5 (10.42%) Serverless
8 3 (6.25%) Datadog
9 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.08%) GitHub
10 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.08%) OCI
10 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (56.25%) DNS
2 23 (47.92%) Network Security
3 13 (27.08%) Firewall
3 13 (27.08%) HTTP
3 13 (27.08%) SSL
4 9 (18.75%) TCP/IP
5 6 (12.50%) IPsec
6 5 (10.42%) Kerberos
7 4 (8.33%) BGP
7 4 (8.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (6.25%) BIG-IP
8 3 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (6.25%) HTTPS
9 2 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (4.17%) DWDM
9 2 (4.17%) LAN
9 2 (4.17%) MPLS
9 2 (4.17%) OSPF
9 2 (4.17%) WAN
9 2 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 8 (16.67%) Finance
2 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Legal
6 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Military
7 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Security Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Security Specialist
3 10 (20.83%) Architect
4 7 (14.58%) Senior
4 7 (14.58%) Technical Architect
4 7 (14.58%) Technical Security Specialist
4 7 (14.58%) Technical Specialist
5 6 (12.50%) Application Security Specialist
5 6 (12.50%) Applications Specialist
6 5 (10.42%) Senior Architect
6 5 (10.42%) Senior Technical Architect
7 4 (8.33%) Network Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 3 (6.25%) Lead
8 3 (6.25%) Network Security Specialist
8 3 (6.25%) Network Specialist
8 3 (6.25%) Security Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Telecoms Specialist
9 2 (4.17%) Cloud Specialist
9 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) OAuth
1 5 (10.42%) OAuth2
1 5 (10.42%) OpenID
1 5 (10.42%) SAML
1 5 (10.42%) Web Services
1 5 (10.42%) XACML
2 2 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (2.08%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (2.08%) J2EE
3 1 (2.08%) JWT
3 1 (2.08%) LangChain
3 1 (2.08%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.08%) LDAP
3 1 (2.08%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (2.08%) pgvector
3 1 (2.08%) React
3 1 (2.08%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Insider Threat
4 2 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.08%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (31.25%) DDoS Mitigation
3 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
4 12 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 12 (25.00%) SIEM
5 11 (22.92%) Migration
6 9 (18.75%) Agile
6 9 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 9 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 9 (18.75%) Security Architecture
7 8 (16.67%) Application Security
7 8 (16.67%) Bot Management
7 8 (16.67%) Zero Trust
8 7 (14.58%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (14.58%) DevOps
8 7 (14.58%) Project Management
8 7 (14.58%) UML
9 6 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (12.50%) Microservices
9 6 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) Python
2 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 8 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (2.08%) Groovy
5 1 (2.08%) Java
5 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) CCNP
2 4 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.25%) CISSP
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) GCFA
4 2 (4.17%) GCIH
4 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.08%) CEH
5 1 (2.08%) CISA
5 1 (2.08%) CISM
5 1 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMP
5 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) NIST
2 2 (4.17%) GRC
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) RACF
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (10.42%) Terraform
2 3 (6.25%) Grafana
3 2 (4.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (2.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) F5
2 3 (6.25%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco
3 2 (4.17%) Google
3 2 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (4.17%) Meraki
3 2 (4.17%) VMware
4 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.08%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.08%) Pegasus