Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends in Leeds

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in Leeds. 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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 47 64
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 7 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.92% 1.46% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.68% 5.26% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £358 £731 -
25th Percentile £425 £739 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £765 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% +27.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £779 -
90th Percentile £743 £780 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £765 £600
% change year-on-year -28.10% +27.50% -

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 261 133 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 34.43% 27.82% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 88 121
10th Percentile £328 £263 £281
25th Percentile £450 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £563
90th Percentile £622 £729 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile - £33.28 £11.79
25th Percentile - £35.99 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +203.70% -37.21%
75th Percentile £15.29 £69.07 £15.20
90th Percentile £17.60 £85.61 £15.25
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
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in Leeds

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in Leeds over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) IaaS
2 5 (71.43%) PaaS
2 5 (71.43%) SaaS
2 5 (71.43%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Akamai
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) IPsec
1 5 (71.43%) Kerberos
1 5 (71.43%) SSL
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Technical Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) OAuth
1 5 (71.43%) OAuth2
1 5 (71.43%) OpenID
1 5 (71.43%) SAML
1 5 (71.43%) Web Services
1 5 (71.43%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) BPEL
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Data Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
2 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Project Management
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Security Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) SOA
2 5 (71.43%) Software Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft