DDoS Mitigation Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring DDoS Mitigation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.030% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £563 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +12.50% +5.26% -20.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,887 1,358 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.59% 88.82% 81.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,893 858 1,112
10th Percentile £313 £206 £275
25th Percentile £405 £371 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £669 £731
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 88 113
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.12
25th Percentile £20.31 £13.76 £14.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.28 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +39.99% +21.70% -20.20%
75th Percentile £60.37 £34.16 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DDoS Mitigation job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DDoS Mitigation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DDoS Mitigation

DDoS Mitigation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Warwickshire - 1 - - 1
DDoS Mitigation
England

DDoS Mitigation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) DNSSEC
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft