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 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 489 490
Rank change year-on-year -68 +1 +31
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 65 15 33
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.054% 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.15% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 9 25
10th Percentile £417 £463 £481
25th Percentile £451 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £591 £563 £688
90th Percentile £769 - £783
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £563
% change year-on-year +7.32% -8.89% -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 15,362 9,774 10,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.60% 35.43% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,425 6,154 6,623
10th Percentile £325 £306 £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 £687
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 499 523
10th Percentile £14.89 £15.45 £12.55
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.36 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.74% -33.98% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.96 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +42.24% -34.44% +10.86%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -63 22 £550 +10.00% 19
North of England -59 21 £446 -10.90% 3
South East - 15 £590 - 2
Yorkshire -35 10 £325 -35.00%
North West - 10 £456 - 2
Midlands - 4 - - 2
West Midlands - 4 - - 2
South West - 2 - - 5
North East - 1 - - 1
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 (9.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) nginx
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 36 (55.38%) Azure
2 35 (53.85%) AWS
3 29 (44.62%) GCP
4 20 (30.77%) Akamai
5 12 (18.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (15.38%) Route 53
7 8 (12.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (7.69%) Datadog
10 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.62%) OCI
11 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (3.08%) SaaS
12 1 (1.54%) CloudFront
12 1 (1.54%) GitHub
12 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (1.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (61.54%) DNS
2 34 (52.31%) Network Security
3 28 (43.08%) Firewall
4 24 (36.92%) TCP/IP
5 20 (30.77%) HTTP
6 12 (18.46%) SSL
7 11 (16.92%) DNSSEC
8 9 (13.85%) BGP
9 8 (12.31%) VPN
10 6 (9.23%) BIG-IP
10 6 (9.23%) DHCP
10 6 (9.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (9.23%) IPsec
11 5 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (7.69%) LAN
11 5 (7.69%) MPLS
11 5 (7.69%) OSPF
11 5 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 15 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Finance
2 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Legal
6 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Architect
2 17 (26.15%) Security Engineer
3 11 (16.92%) Security Specialist
4 9 (13.85%) Network Architect
5 6 (9.23%) Network Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Technical Security Specialist
5 6 (9.23%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Application Security Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Lead
6 5 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Technical Leader
7 4 (6.15%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Network Technical Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 3 (4.62%) Network Security Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Network Security Specialist
8 3 (4.62%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) CSS
2 2 (3.08%) JWT
3 1 (1.54%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (1.54%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.54%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.54%) LangChain
3 1 (1.54%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.54%) LDAP
3 1 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (1.54%) OpenID
3 1 (1.54%) pgvector
3 1 (1.54%) React
3 1 (1.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 4 (6.15%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.08%) Insider Threat
5 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) PKI
5 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.54%) SCADA
6 1 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Windows
2 3 (4.62%) Linux
3 2 (3.08%) AIX
4 1 (1.54%) CentOS
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.92%) DDoS Mitigation
2 22 (33.85%) Incident Response
3 21 (32.31%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (29.23%) SIEM
4 19 (29.23%) Zero Trust
5 18 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (24.62%) Load Balancing
7 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 11 (16.92%) High Availability
8 11 (16.92%) Migration
9 10 (15.38%) Bot Management
10 9 (13.85%) Application Security
10 9 (13.85%) Cloud Security
10 9 (13.85%) OWASP
10 9 (13.85%) Runbook
11 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (12.31%) DevSecOps
11 8 (12.31%) Network Segmentation
11 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.23%) Python
2 11 (16.92%) Bash
3 9 (13.85%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.69%) SQL
6 1 (1.54%) Groovy
6 1 (1.54%) Java
6 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.85%) CCNP
2 9 (13.85%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.31%) Degree
4 5 (7.69%) CISSP
4 5 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.62%) CCIE
5 3 (4.62%) GCIH
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.08%) GCFA
6 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.54%) CCIE Security
7 1 (1.54%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) NIST
2 4 (6.15%) NCSC
3 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.62%) NIST 800
4 2 (3.08%) GRC
4 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (29.23%) Terraform
2 5 (7.69%) Grafana
3 3 (4.62%) Ansible
4 2 (3.08%) Istio
5 1 (1.54%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.46%) Google
3 11 (16.92%) Infoblox
4 10 (15.38%) Cisco
4 10 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 7 (10.77%) F5
5 7 (10.77%) VMware
6 3 (4.62%) CheckPoint
6 3 (4.62%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.08%) AlgoSec
7 2 (3.08%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.08%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (3.08%) Meraki
8 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.54%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.54%) Intel
8 1 (1.54%) Pegasus