Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 489 589
Rank change year-on-year +46 +100 +116
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 31 51 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.45% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 34 53
10th Percentile £477 - £260
25th Percentile £484 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £803 £638 £631
90th Percentile £833 £711 £648
UK median daily rate £588 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +11.90% -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
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 8,291 11,297 16,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.11% 30.70% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,422 7,404 11,458
10th Percentile £300 £268 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 819 584
10th Percentile £15.87 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.72 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £34.25 £32.12 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% +42.83% -16.69%
75th Percentile £64.57 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.45 £70.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £22.49
% change year-on-year +4.00% +38.98% -18.24%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in England.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

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 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in England.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

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 9 May 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 +53 16 £525 +2.44% 25
North of England +19 8 £765 +37.22% 6
Yorkshire +11 6 £765 +37.22%
East of England +27 4 - - 3
West Midlands +15 2 £594 - 1
Midlands +6 2 £594 +9.95% 1
North West - 2 - - 6
Distributed Denial-of-Service
UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (54.84%) Confluence
2 4 (12.90%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Slack
2 12 (38.71%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (6.45%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) AWS KMS
3 2 (6.45%) IaaS
3 2 (6.45%) PaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Route 53
3 2 (6.45%) SaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Akamai
4 1 (3.23%) Azure
4 1 (3.23%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 12 (38.71%) HTTP
2 7 (22.58%) Firewall
3 5 (16.13%) IPsec
4 4 (12.90%) LAN
4 4 (12.90%) SSL
4 4 (12.90%) VPN
4 4 (12.90%) WAN
4 4 (12.90%) Wireless
5 3 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (9.68%) MPLS
5 3 (9.68%) Network Security
5 3 (9.68%) NGFW
6 2 (6.45%) DNS
6 2 (6.45%) FTP
6 2 (6.45%) Internet
6 2 (6.45%) Kerberos
6 2 (6.45%) PSTN
6 2 (6.45%) SMTP
6 2 (6.45%) VoIP
7 1 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (58.06%) MongoDB
2 16 (51.61%) Apache Cassandra
2 16 (51.61%) MySQL
2 16 (51.61%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (54.84%) JIRA
2 16 (51.61%) Cucumber
2 16 (51.61%) Git
2 16 (51.61%) Jasmine
2 16 (51.61%) JUnit
3 2 (6.45%) GitLab
3 2 (6.45%) Maven
General
1 8 (25.81%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Developer
1 13 (41.94%) Java Developer
2 12 (38.71%) Senior
3 8 (25.81%) Senior Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Senior Java Developer
4 7 (22.58%) Lead
5 6 (19.35%) Analyst
6 5 (16.13%) Lead Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Lead Java Developer
6 5 (16.13%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Java Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Security Operations Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (58.06%) Spring
1 18 (58.06%) Spring Boot
2 16 (51.61%) OpenAPI
2 16 (51.61%) RESTful
2 16 (51.61%) Swagger
3 15 (48.39%) Spring Batch
3 15 (48.39%) Spring Security
4 2 (6.45%) LDAP
4 2 (6.45%) Node.js
4 2 (6.45%) OAuth
4 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
4 2 (6.45%) OpenID
4 2 (6.45%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) SAML
4 2 (6.45%) Web Services
4 2 (6.45%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (12.90%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (70.97%) Linux
2 16 (51.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (19.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) CI/CD
1 18 (58.06%) Continuous Delivery
1 18 (58.06%) Continuous Integration
1 18 (58.06%) TDD
2 17 (54.84%) Microservices
2 17 (54.84%) OWASP
3 16 (51.61%) BDD
3 16 (51.61%) Containerisation
4 15 (48.39%) API Design
4 15 (48.39%) Kernel Tuning
4 15 (48.39%) Test Automation
5 11 (35.48%) Integration Testing
5 11 (35.48%) Software Engineering
6 10 (32.26%) High Availability
7 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
7 8 (25.81%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (22.58%) Cloud Security
8 7 (22.58%) Incident Response
8 7 (22.58%) Operational Stability
8 7 (22.58%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Bash
1 19 (61.29%) SQL
2 18 (58.06%) Java
3 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.68%) Python
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Security Cleared
2 15 (48.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) CCNA
3 3 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) CEH
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (58.06%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (51.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Packer
2 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Splunk
2 4 (12.90%) Cisco
2 4 (12.90%) Darktrace
2 4 (12.90%) F5
2 4 (12.90%) FireEye
2 4 (12.90%) LogRhythm
2 4 (12.90%) Palo Alto
3 3 (9.68%) Aruba
3 3 (9.68%) CheckPoint
3 3 (9.68%) Juniper
4 2 (6.45%) IronPort
4 2 (6.45%) Symantec
4 2 (6.45%) VMware
5 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.23%) Imperva
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat