Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends in London

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in London. 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 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 361 362
Rank change year-on-year -60 +1 +86
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 23 10 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.074% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.20% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 14
10th Percentile £419 £463 £504
25th Percentile £444 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +0.84%
75th Percentile - £563 £761
90th Percentile £577 - £788
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,502 5,068 5,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.14% 37.37% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,696 3,340 3,813
10th Percentile £358 £334 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £750
90th Percentile £800 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 118 81
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -3.61% -13.83%
75th Percentile £57.81 £45.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £32.05 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.91% -32.53% +14.46%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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
Central London -13 1 £595 +13.33% 1
Distributed Denial-of-Service
England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Akamai
3 5 (21.74%) Datadog
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (13.04%) OCI
6 2 (8.70%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
7 1 (4.35%) LangSmith
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.35%) PaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (73.91%) Network Security
2 13 (56.52%) Firewall
3 11 (47.83%) HTTP
4 8 (34.78%) DNS
4 8 (34.78%) SSL
4 8 (34.78%) TCP/IP
5 3 (13.04%) BIG-IP
5 3 (13.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (13.04%) HTTPS
5 3 (13.04%) IPsec
5 3 (13.04%) NGFW
5 3 (13.04%) VPN
6 2 (8.70%) BGP
6 2 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (8.70%) DWDM
6 2 (8.70%) Internet
6 2 (8.70%) MPLS
6 2 (8.70%) OSPF
6 2 (8.70%) Wireless
6 2 (8.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Security Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Network Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Network Security Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Network Security Specialist
3 3 (13.04%) Network Specialist
3 3 (13.04%) Security Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Security Specialist
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.35%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Junior
5 1 (4.35%) Network Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (4.35%) JWT
1 1 (4.35%) LangChain
1 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
1 1 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (4.35%) pgvector
1 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (21.74%) Onboarding
3 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) DDoS Mitigation
2 9 (39.13%) Incident Response
2 9 (39.13%) SIEM
3 8 (34.78%) Application Security
3 8 (34.78%) Runbook
4 6 (26.09%) Zero Trust
5 5 (21.74%) Bot Management
5 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (21.74%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) Threat Detection
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 4 (17.39%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (17.39%) OWASP
7 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
7 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
7 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) High Availability
7 3 (13.04%) Load Balancing
7 3 (13.04%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CCNP
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) CISA
2 1 (4.35%) CISM
2 1 (4.35%) CISSP
2 1 (4.35%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.35%) PMP
2 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
1 3 (13.04%) NIST 800
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Grafana
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Palo Alto
2 3 (13.04%) F5
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (8.70%) Meraki
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Pegasus