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 25 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 370 402
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 +122
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 10 18 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.071% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.34% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 17
10th Percentile £442 £493 £445
25th Percentile £463 £581 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +17.39% -19.30%
75th Percentile £556 £781 £623
90th Percentile £563 £788 £659
England median daily rate £475 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -23.39% +3.33% -2.04%

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 5,548 5,320 6,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.35% 33.87% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,526 3,404 4,786
10th Percentile £335 £325 £325
25th Percentile £434 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £725
90th Percentile £813 £850 £825
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 62 102
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.28 £18.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.72 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +17.50% -1.64%
75th Percentile £43.00 £56.00 £49.68
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £65.09
England median hourly rate £28.13 £44.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.08% -1.12% +27.14%

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
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 25 November 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
Central London +4 3 £525 -30.00%
East London - 1 £525 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Akamai
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) Network Security
3 3 (30.00%) SSL
4 2 (20.00%) Internet
5 1 (10.00%) DHCP
5 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
5 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) SOAR
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) Infoblox
2 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle