Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts in the North West

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 118 - 148
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% - 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% - 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.74%
75th Percentile - - £644
90th Percentile - - £680
England median daily rate £594 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +13.10% -12.50% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
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 West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 West 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
Manchester - 2 - - 6
Distributed Denial-of-Service
England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jasmine
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Kernel Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes