Hybrid/Remote Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 25 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 303 327
Rank change year-on-year -34 +24 +98
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 20 5 24
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.051% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.15% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 22
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £451 £313 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +66.08% -35.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £573 £338 £600
90th Percentile £587 - £685
UK median daily rate £553 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +5.24% - -12.50%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,754 3,316 4,320
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.39% 33.96% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,978 2,206 2,928
10th Percentile £363 £339 £325
25th Percentile £435 £413 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 90 188
10th Percentile £19.85 £16.33 £16.03
25th Percentile £28.00 £25.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £44.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -9.64% -6.19%
75th Percentile £76.00 £64.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year +32.61% -10.97% +60.11%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Distributed Denial-of-Service daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) AWS
3 8 (40.00%) GCP
4 5 (25.00%) Akamai
5 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (20.00%) Route 53
6 3 (15.00%) Datadog
7 2 (10.00%) SaaS
8 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.00%) Google Gemini
8 1 (5.00%) LangSmith
8 1 (5.00%) OCI
8 1 (5.00%) PaaS
8 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) Firewall
2 9 (45.00%) DNS
2 9 (45.00%) Network Security
3 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (20.00%) DHCP
4 4 (20.00%) DNSSEC
4 4 (20.00%) HTTP
5 3 (15.00%) BGP
5 3 (15.00%) MPLS
5 3 (15.00%) OSPF
5 3 (15.00%) SSL
6 2 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (10.00%) DWDM
6 2 (10.00%) IPsec
6 2 (10.00%) NGFW
6 2 (10.00%) VPN
6 2 (10.00%) Wireless
6 2 (10.00%) Wireshark
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) JWT
2 1 (5.00%) LangChain
2 1 (5.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (5.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (5.00%) pgvector
2 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Insider Threat
4 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 10 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (40.00%) SIEM
5 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (30.00%) Runbook
5 6 (30.00%) Zero Trust
6 5 (25.00%) Bot Management
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) High Availability
8 3 (15.00%) OWASP
8 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
8 3 (15.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) Bash
3 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) GCFA
3 2 (10.00%) GCIH
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GRC
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Google
3 4 (20.00%) Infoblox
3 4 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (10.00%) Meraki
6 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.00%) F5
6 1 (5.00%) Pegasus
6 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.00%) VMware