DDoS Mitigation Contracts with Work from Home Options

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DDoS Mitigation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 463 613
Rank change year-on-year +134 +150 -130
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 8 4 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.053% 0.016% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.017% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile - £483 £368
25th Percentile £425 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +24.85%
75th Percentile £475 £544 £650
90th Percentile £554 £578 £813
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -21.74% +11.65% -2.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DDoS Mitigation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

DDoS Mitigation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DDoS Mitigation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DDoS Mitigation trend for jobs with a WFH option

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DDoS Mitigation.

DDoS Mitigation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

DDoS Mitigation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DDoS Mitigation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Mobile Device Management
1 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Management
1 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) CA
2 7 (87.50%) Qualys
2 7 (87.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto