Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in Halifax. 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 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 8.00% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £765 £600
% change year-on-year -28.10% +27.50% -

All Generic Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 32.00% 50.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £359 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% - -
75th Percentile £459 £525 -
90th Percentile £484 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +3.90% +6.94% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 - -
75th Percentile £23.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.25 £38.75 £14.63
% change year-on-year -60.65% +164.96% -21.79%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Akamai
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform