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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 340 371
Rank change year-on-year -55 +31 +113
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 4 22 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.025% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.067% 0.49% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 16
10th Percentile £430 £463 £405
25th Percentile £444 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +16.67% -28.00%
75th Percentile £519 £825 £658
90th Percentile £530 £838 £766
England median daily rate £448 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -18.59% +6.80% -14.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.75
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £41.25
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,929 4,519 5,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.80% 34.84% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,859 2,976 4,213
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £700
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 68 181
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.02 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.88 £35.70 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +23.09% -17.14%
75th Percentile £57.00 £57.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £80.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +33.33%

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 10 March 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
East London 0 1 £525 +1.94%
Central London -16 1 £443 - 2
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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Akamai
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Junior Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Security Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle