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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 478 497
Rank change year-on-year -61 +19 +61
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 64 18 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.072% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 0.21% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 38
10th Percentile £413 £476 £385
25th Percentile £423 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £595 £563 £638
90th Percentile £786 - £668
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%
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 14,223 8,696 11,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.74% 34.72% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 5,588 7,289
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -1.04% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 399 846
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.15
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -8.42% +64.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.03 £81.35 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.41 £36.00
% change year-on-year +31.13% -9.97% +60.11%

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 24 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 24 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 -56 26 £439 -12.20% 2
London -61 21 £525 +5.00% 6
Yorkshire -37 18 £375 -25.00% 1
South East - 14 £586 - 7
North West - 7 £500 - 1
South West - 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 (7.81%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 37 (57.81%) Azure
2 32 (50.00%) AWS
3 30 (46.88%) GCP
4 19 (29.69%) Akamai
5 10 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (14.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (14.06%) Route 53
7 6 (9.38%) SaaS
8 5 (7.81%) PaaS
9 4 (6.25%) IaaS
9 4 (6.25%) Serverless
10 3 (4.69%) Datadog
10 3 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.13%) OCI
12 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
12 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (1.56%) Google Gemini
12 1 (1.56%) LangSmith
12 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (62.50%) DNS
2 31 (48.44%) Network Security
3 26 (40.63%) Firewall
4 20 (31.25%) TCP/IP
5 18 (28.13%) HTTP
6 14 (21.88%) SSL
7 10 (15.63%) DNSSEC
8 8 (12.50%) BGP
8 8 (12.50%) IPsec
9 6 (9.38%) DHCP
9 6 (9.38%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (7.81%) BIG-IP
10 5 (7.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (6.25%) Kerberos
11 4 (6.25%) LAN
11 4 (6.25%) MPLS
11 4 (6.25%) OSPF
11 4 (6.25%) VPN
11 4 (6.25%) WAN
12 3 (4.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.06%) Finance
4 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.25%) Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Legal
6 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Military
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Architect
2 14 (21.88%) Security Engineer
3 12 (18.75%) Security Specialist
4 8 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 7 (10.94%) Technical Security Specialist
5 7 (10.94%) Technical Specialist
6 6 (9.38%) Application Security Specialist
6 6 (9.38%) Applications Specialist
6 6 (9.38%) Senior
7 5 (7.81%) Lead
8 4 (6.25%) Lead Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Security Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Technical Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Technical Leader
9 3 (4.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 3 (4.69%) Network Security Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Network Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) CSS
1 4 (6.25%) OAuth
1 4 (6.25%) OAuth2
1 4 (6.25%) OpenID
1 4 (6.25%) SAML
1 4 (6.25%) Web Services
1 4 (6.25%) XACML
2 1 (1.56%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.56%) J2EE
2 1 (1.56%) JWT
2 1 (1.56%) LangChain
2 1 (1.56%) LangGraph
2 1 (1.56%) LDAP
2 1 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (1.56%) pgvector
2 1 (1.56%) React
2 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) Insider Threat
4 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.88%) DDoS Mitigation
2 24 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (31.25%) Incident Response
4 17 (26.56%) SIEM
5 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (23.44%) Load Balancing
7 14 (21.88%) Zero Trust
8 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
9 12 (18.75%) Migration
10 11 (17.19%) High Availability
11 10 (15.63%) Agile
11 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
12 9 (14.06%) Decision-Making
12 9 (14.06%) OWASP
12 9 (14.06%) Security Architecture
13 8 (12.50%) Application Security
13 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.13%) Python
2 10 (15.63%) Bash
3 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
3 9 (14.06%) SQL
4 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) Groovy
5 1 (1.56%) Java
5 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) Degree
4 6 (9.38%) CCNP
4 6 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.69%) CISSP
7 2 (3.13%) GCFA
7 2 (3.13%) GCIH
8 1 (1.56%) CCIE
8 1 (1.56%) CEH
8 1 (1.56%) CISA
8 1 (1.56%) CISM
8 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.56%) PMP
8 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) NIST
2 2 (3.13%) GRC
2 2 (3.13%) NCSC
2 2 (3.13%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) RACF
2 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.69%) Grafana
4 2 (3.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.56%) Ansible
5 1 (1.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.19%) Google
3 10 (15.63%) Infoblox
4 6 (9.38%) Palo Alto
5 5 (7.81%) F5
6 4 (6.25%) Cisco
6 4 (6.25%) VMware
7 2 (3.13%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (3.13%) Meraki
7 2 (3.13%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.56%) Pegasus