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 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 362 408
Rank change year-on-year +5 +46 +119
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 12 18 29
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.090% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.34% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 22
10th Percentile £450 £495 £488
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £675 £595
Median % change year-on-year -24.07% +13.45% -1.24%
75th Percentile £563 £775 £634
90th Percentile - £788 £669
England median daily rate £500 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -19.35% +3.33% -

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 5,213 5,366 7,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.91% 33.85% 34.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 3,456 5,165
10th Percentile £338 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.77% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 66 93
10th Percentile £17.06 £17.38 £18.11
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.24 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £36.50 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -27.95% +22.81% +6.18%
75th Percentile £46.75 £58.44 £50.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £79.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £28.13 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -46.43% +16.67% +73.08%

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 24 October 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 +5 4 £525 -30.00% 4
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 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Akamai
2 2 (16.67%) Cloudflare
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) Network Security
3 3 (25.00%) SSL
4 2 (16.67%) Internet
5 1 (8.33%) DHCP
5 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
5 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Security Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Security Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) SIEM
4 3 (25.00%) SOAR
4 3 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
6 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (8.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 2 (16.67%) F5
3 2 (16.67%) Infoblox
3 2 (16.67%) Juniper
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle