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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 383 419
Rank change year-on-year +26 +36 +146
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 11 15 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.083% 0.094% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 20
10th Percentile £463 £500 £508
25th Percentile £469 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £583
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +11.59% -2.92%
75th Percentile £563 £747 £626
90th Percentile - £788 £652
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -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 5,074 5,393 7,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.06% 33.62% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,282 3,573 5,646
10th Percentile £333 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 68 86
10th Percentile £16.37 £17.25 £17.28
25th Percentile £23.98 £23.35 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +5.24% -2.46%
75th Percentile £46.35 £54.06 £53.19
90th Percentile £69.75 £71.44 £74.33
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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
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 16 September 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% 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) Akamai
3 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) Network Security
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) SSL
4 1 (9.09%) Internet
4 1 (9.09%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Security Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Security Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) DDoS Mitigation
3 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) SIEM
4 3 (27.27%) SOAR
4 3 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
1 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
1 3 (27.27%) Splunk
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Juniper
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco