DDoS Mitigation Contract Job Trends in London

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring DDoS Mitigation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 - 381
Rank change year-on-year - - +104
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 4 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.023% - 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% - 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £419 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £456 - £475
90th Percentile - - £483
England median daily rate £500 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

DDoS Mitigation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,703 11,565 15,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 92.19% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,845 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +15.25% -22.62%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.75 £47.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DDoS Mitigation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

DDoS Mitigation job vacancy trend in London

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DDoS Mitigation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DDoS Mitigation

DDoS Mitigation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) HTTP
2 3 (75.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (75.00%) SSL
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (25.00%) DWDM
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Network Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Security Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Application Security
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto