Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 364 474
Rank change year-on-year +27 +110 +89
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 16 27 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.15% 0.070%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.46% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 12
10th Percentile £459 - £500
25th Percentile £480 £425 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -8.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £825 £547 £638
90th Percentile £839 £741 -
England median daily rate £594 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +13.10% -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 -

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 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in London.

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

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 1 May 2025.

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in London.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in London

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 1 May 2025. 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
East London - 2 £515 -
Central London +3 1 - - 2
Distributed Denial-of-Service
England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (62.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Slack
2 7 (43.75%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Route 53
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) HTTP
2 4 (25.00%) IPsec
2 4 (25.00%) LAN
2 4 (25.00%) VPN
2 4 (25.00%) WAN
2 4 (25.00%) Wireless
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (18.75%) MPLS
3 3 (18.75%) NGFW
4 2 (12.50%) Internet
4 2 (12.50%) Network Security
4 2 (12.50%) PSTN
4 2 (12.50%) VoIP
5 1 (6.25%) Intranet
5 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
5 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (6.25%) SSL
5 1 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) MongoDB
2 9 (56.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (56.25%) MySQL
2 9 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) JIRA
2 9 (56.25%) Cucumber
2 9 (56.25%) Git
2 9 (56.25%) Jasmine
2 9 (56.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Lead
2 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Lead Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Network Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) JIRA Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Telephony Manager
5 1 (6.25%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Spring
1 10 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 9 (56.25%) OpenAPI
2 9 (56.25%) RESTful
2 9 (56.25%) Spring Batch
2 9 (56.25%) Spring Security
2 9 (56.25%) Swagger
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) OpenID
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) SAML
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Linux
2 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) TDD
2 9 (56.25%) BDD
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
2 9 (56.25%) Continuous Delivery
2 9 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (56.25%) OWASP
2 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
3 8 (50.00%) API Design
3 8 (50.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 8 (50.00%) Microservices
4 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
5 5 (31.25%) High Availability
5 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Network Load Balancing
7 3 (18.75%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Bash
1 10 (62.50%) Java
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Packer
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco
1 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (18.75%) Aruba
2 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
2 3 (18.75%) F5
2 3 (18.75%) Juniper
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) VMware