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 21 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 495 513
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 +173
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 15 27 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.053% 0.086% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.27% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 56
10th Percentile £454 £371 £475
25th Percentile £463 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £606
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.03% +0.62%
75th Percentile £563 £688 £636
90th Percentile - £780 £731
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -2.04%

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 10,344 9,860 13,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.43% 31.23% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,466 5,920 9,142
10th Percentile £294 £297 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -3.47% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 333 443
10th Percentile £14.49 £17.11 £17.14
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £27.52 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.59% +16.67% +75.03%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.53 £75.16 £78.29
UK median hourly rate £26.64 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -42.31% +3.78% +72.41%

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
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 21 October 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 +4 12 £513 -22.64% 11
North of England -26 2 £500 -
Yorkshire -27 2 £500 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Akamai
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (13.33%) AWS KMS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) DNS
3 6 (40.00%) Network Security
4 5 (33.33%) SSL
5 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (20.00%) VPN
6 2 (13.33%) Internet
7 1 (6.67%) DHCP
7 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 7 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) SIEM
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Zero Trust
5 4 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
6 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (20.00%) Observability
6 3 (20.00%) RBAC
6 3 (20.00%) SOAR
6 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection
6 3 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (13.33%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) CISM
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (6.67%) JSP 440
3 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Ansible
3 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Kustomize
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (13.33%) Puppet
4 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Splunk
2 4 (26.67%) Fortinet
2 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (13.33%) F5
4 2 (13.33%) Infoblox
4 2 (13.33%) Juniper
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle