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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 489 499
Rank change year-on-year -78 +10 +35
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 64 15 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.054% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.15% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 26
10th Percentile £416 £463 £447
25th Percentile £435 £476 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £595 £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 15,162 9,689 10,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.38% 35.09% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,333 6,121 6,736
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 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 873 481 552
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.52 £18.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.56% -33.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £44.74
% change year-on-year +49.02% -34.06% +11.85%

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 5 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 5 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 -39 23 £550 +10.00% 2
North of England -42 20 £439 -12.20% 4
South East - 15 £590 - 7
Yorkshire -36 12 £375 -25.00%
North West - 7 £500 - 4
West Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
South West - 2 - - 2
North East - 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 (9.38%) 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 34 (53.13%) Azure
2 32 (50.00%) AWS
3 29 (45.31%) GCP
4 20 (31.25%) Akamai
5 12 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (14.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (14.06%) Route 53
7 6 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (7.81%) Datadog
9 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.69%) OCI
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.13%) SaaS
11 1 (1.56%) GitHub
11 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (64.06%) DNS
2 33 (51.56%) Network Security
3 25 (39.06%) Firewall
4 24 (37.50%) TCP/IP
5 20 (31.25%) HTTP
6 12 (18.75%) SSL
7 11 (17.19%) DNSSEC
8 9 (14.06%) BGP
9 6 (9.38%) BIG-IP
9 6 (9.38%) DHCP
9 6 (9.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (9.38%) IPsec
9 6 (9.38%) VPN
10 5 (7.81%) LAN
10 5 (7.81%) MPLS
10 5 (7.81%) OSPF
10 5 (7.81%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (7.81%) WAN
11 4 (6.25%) NGFW
12 3 (4.69%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 14 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Finance
4 6 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Legal
7 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Architect
2 14 (21.88%) Security Engineer
3 12 (18.75%) Security Specialist
4 10 (15.63%) Network 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%) Lead
7 5 (7.81%) Lead Architect
7 5 (7.81%) Technical Architect
7 5 (7.81%) Technical Leader
8 4 (6.25%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Network Security Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Network Technical Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Network Specialist
9 3 (4.69%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (1.56%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
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 8 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.81%) Private Cloud
3 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.13%) Insider Threat
5 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.56%) PKI
6 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.56%) SCADA
6 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Linux
3 2 (3.13%) AIX
4 1 (1.56%) CentOS
4 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (54.69%) DDoS Mitigation
2 22 (34.38%) Incident Response
3 19 (29.69%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (29.69%) SIEM
4 18 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (26.56%) Zero Trust
6 15 (23.44%) Load Balancing
7 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
8 12 (18.75%) Migration
9 11 (17.19%) High Availability
10 10 (15.63%) Bot Management
11 9 (14.06%) Application Security
11 9 (14.06%) OWASP
11 9 (14.06%) Runbook
12 8 (12.50%) Cloud Security
12 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (10.94%) Agile
13 7 (10.94%) DevSecOps
13 7 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.13%) Python
2 10 (15.63%) Bash
3 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.81%) SQL
6 1 (1.56%) Groovy
6 1 (1.56%) Java
6 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.50%) Degree
4 7 (10.94%) CCNP
4 7 (10.94%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.69%) CISSP
7 2 (3.13%) CCIE
7 2 (3.13%) GCFA
7 2 (3.13%) GCIH
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) NCSC
1 4 (6.25%) NIST
2 3 (4.69%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.13%) GRC
3 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (28.13%) Terraform
2 5 (7.81%) Grafana
3 2 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Istio
4 1 (1.56%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 19 (29.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.75%) Google
3 11 (17.19%) Infoblox
4 8 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 7 (10.94%) Cisco
5 7 (10.94%) VMware
6 6 (9.38%) F5
7 3 (4.69%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (3.13%) Meraki
9 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.56%) Pegasus