Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 95 109 131
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 +40
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.10% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.31% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £583 - £450
25th Percentile £586 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.78%
75th Percentile £598 - £600
90th Percentile £599 - £675
England median daily rate £594 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +13.10% -12.50% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 418 647 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.08% 33.23% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 410 525
10th Percentile £197 £307 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 19
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £17.99
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.50
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 West Midlands

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

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

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

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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 Distributed Denial-of-Service within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +18 2 £594 - 1
Distributed Denial-of-Service
England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (50.00%) Akamai
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Imperva