Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts in the North of England

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 179 207
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 8 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% 0.46% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £731 £454 -
25th Percentile £739 £483 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £765 £558 £600
Median % change year-on-year +37.22% -7.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £779 £600 £650
90th Percentile £780 - £669
England median daily rate £594 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +13.10% -12.50% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the North of England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the North of England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +8 6 £765 +37.22%
North West - 2 - - 6
Distributed Denial-of-Service
England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Slack
2 6 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 8 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
1 8 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 8 (100.00%) Git
1 8 (100.00%) Jasmine
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
1 8 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Senior
2 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Java Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Senior Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 8 (100.00%) RESTful
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 8 (100.00%) Swagger
2 7 (87.50%) Spring Batch
2 7 (87.50%) Spring Security
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) API Design
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (100.00%) Kernel Tuning
1 8 (100.00%) Microservices
1 8 (100.00%) OWASP
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
3 6 (75.00%) Integration Testing
4 5 (62.50%) High Availability
4 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
4 5 (62.50%) Operational Stability
4 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
4 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (50.00%) Coaching
6 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
7 1 (12.50%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes