Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends 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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 119 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.072% 0.15% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £529 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £596 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £446 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -18.86% +22.22% -25.77%

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 921 638 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.93% 30.93% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 376 512
10th Percentile £200 £200 £300
25th Percentile £356 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -6.50% +2.04%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £586
90th Percentile £625 £665 £650
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 43 74
10th Percentile £18.50 £20.35 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.12% +10.58% -25.71%
75th Percentile £69.25 £33.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £44.34 £51.48
England median hourly rate £33.50 £37.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -9.46% +17.46% +40.00%

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

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 West.

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

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

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

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

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 27 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
Manchester -23 1 - - 1
Cheshire - 1 £563 - 4
Distributed Denial-of-Service
England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Akamai
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Bot Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform