DDoS Mitigation Contracts

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring DDoS Mitigation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 577 696
Rank change year-on-year +61 +119 +129
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 1 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.030% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.035% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - - £490
25th Percentile - £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.74% +11.65%
75th Percentile - £475 £619
90th Percentile - £548 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £625
% change year-on-year - - +21.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,532 37,140 52,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.94% 86.25% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,079 23,924 36,124
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,080 2,439 1,724
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.34 £16.00 £16.17
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%
75th Percentile £60.84 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.06 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.78% +8.57% +75.00%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DDoS Mitigation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DDoS Mitigation.

Daily rate trend for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OLE
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree