DDoS Mitigation Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DDoS Mitigation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.097% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £537 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
75th Percentile £686 - -
90th Percentile £748 - -
South East median daily rate £590 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

DDoS Mitigation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,495 1,395 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.03% 93.12% 84.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,611 851 1,234
10th Percentile £306 £300 £225
25th Percentile £408 £401 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 79 173
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £19.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £24.66 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +230.49% -48.08% -8.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £104.50 £81.41 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £53.95 £24.66 £50.00
% change year-on-year +118.78% -50.68% -4.76%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DDoS Mitigation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

DDoS Mitigation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DDoS Mitigation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DDoS Mitigation

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DDoS Mitigation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DDoS Mitigation in the Thames Valley

DDoS Mitigation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DDoS Mitigation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Berkshire - 2 £538 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 £790 - 1
DDoS Mitigation
South East

DDoS Mitigation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DNSSEC
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) BIG-IP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) ICMP
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) NGFW
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Infoblox
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) VMware