Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.38% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £529 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £596 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £563 - -

All Generic Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 119 47 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 45.08% 43.93% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 41 35
10th Percentile £313 - £495
25th Percentile £360 £356 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £391 £560
Median % change year-on-year +15.09% -30.18% +20.04%
75th Percentile £539 £550 £586
90th Percentile £621 £638 £621
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £469 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% -10.67% +17.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £29.52 £36.50
% change year-on-year -45.79% -19.14% +57.67%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Bot Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python