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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 371 461
Rank change year-on-year +17 +90 +98
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 11 28 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.083% 0.16% 0.098%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.48% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 16
10th Percentile £459 - £498
25th Percentile £480 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £559 £659 £638
90th Percentile £563 £747 £661
England median daily rate £500 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% +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 4,872 5,882 9,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.85% 33.38% 35.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,214 4,125 6,579
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 141 98
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £17.93
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.00 £22.49
Median hourly rate £30.40 £27.84 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -20.46% -13.58%
75th Percentile £48.44 £50.25 £58.44
90th Percentile £65.39 £71.25 £85.99
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +50.00% -5.66%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +10 3 £525 -31.15% 8
East London - 2 £515 -
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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
1 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) LAN
2 4 (36.36%) VPN
2 4 (36.36%) WAN
2 4 (36.36%) Wireless
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (27.27%) IPsec
3 3 (27.27%) MPLS
3 3 (27.27%) NGFW
4 2 (18.18%) Internet
4 2 (18.18%) Network Security
4 2 (18.18%) PSTN
4 2 (18.18%) VoIP
5 1 (9.09%) HTTP
5 1 (9.09%) Intranet
5 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
5 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jasmine
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Operations Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Security Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Security Operations Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Telephony Manager
3 1 (9.09%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Security
1 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
1 5 (45.45%) Migration
1 5 (45.45%) Security Operations
2 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (36.36%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) SIEM
2 4 (36.36%) SOAR
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Network Design
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Bash
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCNA
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco
1 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Aruba
2 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
2 3 (27.27%) F5
2 3 (27.27%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft