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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 493 499
Rank change year-on-year -57 +6 +25
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 63 15 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.054% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.15% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 10 26
10th Percentile £416 £463 £447
25th Percentile £433 £476 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £591 £553 £684
90th Percentile £769 £563 £781
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -8.33%
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 15,242 9,778 10,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.44% 35.32% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,359 6,185 6,651
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 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 486 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.56 £30.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.96% -34.94% +15.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +12.98%

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 12 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 12 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 -57 22 £550 +10.00% 21
North of England -54 20 £433 -13.50% 4
South East - 15 £590 - 7
Yorkshire -34 11 £325 -35.00%
North West - 8 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 3 - - 2
Midlands - 3 - - 2
South West - 2 - - 2
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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) nginx
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 35 (55.56%) Azure
2 33 (52.38%) AWS
3 30 (47.62%) GCP
4 21 (33.33%) Akamai
5 12 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (14.29%) Route 53
7 6 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (7.94%) Datadog
9 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.76%) OCI
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.17%) SaaS
11 1 (1.59%) GitHub
11 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.59%) PaaS
11 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (65.08%) DNS
2 33 (52.38%) Network Security
3 26 (41.27%) Firewall
4 24 (38.10%) TCP/IP
5 20 (31.75%) HTTP
6 12 (19.05%) SSL
7 11 (17.46%) DNSSEC
8 9 (14.29%) BGP
9 6 (9.52%) BIG-IP
9 6 (9.52%) DHCP
9 6 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (9.52%) IPsec
9 6 (9.52%) VPN
10 5 (7.94%) LAN
10 5 (7.94%) MPLS
10 5 (7.94%) OSPF
10 5 (7.94%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (7.94%) WAN
11 4 (6.35%) NGFW
12 3 (4.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 14 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Legal
6 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Architect
2 15 (23.81%) Security Engineer
3 12 (19.05%) Security Specialist
4 9 (14.29%) Network Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Technical Security Specialist
5 7 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
6 6 (9.52%) Application Security Specialist
6 6 (9.52%) Applications Specialist
7 5 (7.94%) Lead
7 5 (7.94%) Lead Architect
7 5 (7.94%) Technical Architect
7 5 (7.94%) Technical Leader
8 4 (6.35%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Network Technical Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Network Security Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Network Security Specialist
9 3 (4.76%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) CSS
2 2 (3.17%) JWT
3 1 (1.59%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.59%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.59%) LangChain
3 1 (1.59%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.59%) LDAP
3 1 (1.59%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (1.59%) OpenID
3 1 (1.59%) pgvector
3 1 (1.59%) React
3 1 (1.59%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.94%) Private Cloud
3 4 (6.35%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.17%) Insider Threat
5 2 (3.17%) PKI
5 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.59%) SCADA
6 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Linux
3 2 (3.17%) AIX
4 1 (1.59%) CentOS
4 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (55.56%) DDoS Mitigation
2 22 (34.92%) Incident Response
3 19 (30.16%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (30.16%) SIEM
4 18 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (28.57%) Zero Trust
5 15 (23.81%) Load Balancing
6 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
7 11 (17.46%) High Availability
7 11 (17.46%) Migration
8 10 (15.87%) Bot Management
9 9 (14.29%) Application Security
9 9 (14.29%) OWASP
9 9 (14.29%) Runbook
10 8 (12.70%) Cloud Security
10 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.70%) DevSecOps
10 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (11.11%) Agile
11 7 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) Python
2 10 (15.87%) Bash
3 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.94%) SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Groovy
6 1 (1.59%) Java
6 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) Degree
4 7 (11.11%) CCNP
4 7 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.76%) CISSP
7 2 (3.17%) CCIE
7 2 (3.17%) GCFA
7 2 (3.17%) GCIH
7 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.59%) CEH
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.59%) PMP
8 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.59%) SANS
8 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) NCSC
1 4 (6.35%) NIST
2 3 (4.76%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.17%) GRC
3 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (7.94%) Grafana
3 2 (3.17%) Ansible
3 2 (3.17%) Istio
4 1 (1.59%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.05%) Google
3 11 (17.46%) Infoblox
4 8 (12.70%) Cisco
4 8 (12.70%) Palo Alto
5 7 (11.11%) F5
5 7 (11.11%) VMware
6 3 (4.76%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.17%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (3.17%) Meraki
8 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.59%) Intel
8 1 (1.59%) Pegasus