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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 356 365
Rank change year-on-year -84 +9 +44
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 20 12 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.099% 0.090% 0.094%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.23% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 10
10th Percentile £418 £450 £504
25th Percentile £439 £463 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £663
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -22.64% +10.42%
75th Percentile - £563 £761
90th Percentile £591 - £788
England median daily rate £550 £500 £640
% change year-on-year +10.00% -21.88% +4.49%

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 7,765 5,175 5,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.35% 38.88% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,934 3,335 3,485
10th Percentile £354 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 121 70
10th Percentile £16.79 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.50 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -19.08% +11.02%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.00 £55.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.75 £78.44
England median hourly rate £34.62 £30.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -46.90% +22.35%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Denial-of-Service in London

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 6 October 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
Central London -20 2 £725 +38.10% 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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Akamai
3 5 (25.00%) Datadog
3 5 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.00%) OCI
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) Google Gemini
6 1 (5.00%) LangSmith
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) Network Security
2 12 (60.00%) Firewall
3 9 (45.00%) HTTP
4 7 (35.00%) DNS
5 5 (25.00%) SSL
5 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (20.00%) NGFW
6 4 (20.00%) VPN
7 3 (15.00%) IPsec
8 2 (10.00%) BGP
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (10.00%) DWDM
8 2 (10.00%) Internet
8 2 (10.00%) MPLS
8 2 (10.00%) OSPF
8 2 (10.00%) Wireless
8 2 (10.00%) Wireshark
9 1 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (5.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (5.00%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) JWT
3 1 (5.00%) LangChain
3 1 (5.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (5.00%) pgvector
3 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 9 (45.00%) Incident Response
2 9 (45.00%) SIEM
3 8 (40.00%) Runbook
4 7 (35.00%) Zero Trust
5 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (25.00%) Application Security
6 5 (25.00%) Bot Management
6 5 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (25.00%) Threat Detection
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 4 (20.00%) OWASP
7 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
8 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CCNP
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) CISSP
2 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.00%) PMP
2 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE Security
3 1 (5.00%) CISA
3 1 (5.00%) CISM
3 1 (5.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) NIST
1 3 (15.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (10.00%) Meraki
5 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Pegasus