Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends 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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 151 185
Rank change year-on-year -60 +34 +39
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 9 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.33% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 1.01% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £383 £731 -
25th Percentile £488 £739 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £765 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +27.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £779 -
90th Percentile £768 £780 -
England median daily rate £488 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -11.36% +6.80% -15.92%

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 1,763 1,091 1,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.18% 32.66% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 642 869
10th Percentile £200 £200 £245
25th Percentile £363 £329 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £582
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
England median daily rate £508 £549 £549
% change year-on-year -7.40% -0.08% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 45 121
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.51 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.06 £22.98 £14.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% +36.36% +10.66%
75th Percentile £60.61 £33.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £46.18 £48.75
England median hourly rate £31.18 £39.04 £32.50
% change year-on-year -20.13% +20.12% +44.44%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 11 February 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
Yorkshire -57 8 £675 -11.76% 4
North West -29 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Distributed Denial-of-Service
England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) IaaS
2 5 (55.56%) PaaS
2 5 (55.56%) SaaS
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Akamai
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) IPsec
1 5 (55.56%) Kerberos
1 5 (55.56%) SSL
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Technical Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
1 5 (55.56%) OpenID
1 5 (55.56%) SAML
1 5 (55.56%) Web Services
1 5 (55.56%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 6 (66.67%) UML
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) ArchiMate
3 5 (55.56%) BPEL
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (55.56%) Data Architecture
3 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) Project Management
3 5 (55.56%) SOA
3 5 (55.56%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CEH
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign