Distributed Denial-of-Service Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 73 101
Rank change year-on-year -57 +28 +29
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 8 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.40% 0.86% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 2.40% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £383 £731 -
25th Percentile £488 £739 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £765 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +27.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £779 -
90th Percentile £768 £780 -
England median daily rate £488 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -11.36% +6.80% -15.92%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 757 333 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.55% 35.88% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 209 292
10th Percentile £317 £180 £233
25th Percentile £425 £313 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £569
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
England median daily rate £508 £549 £549
% change year-on-year -7.40% -0.08% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 40
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £11.69
25th Percentile £15.50 £32.67 £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +164.96% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £42.25 £21.98
90th Percentile £57.78 £69.57 £23.75
England median hourly rate £31.18 £39.04 £32.50
% change year-on-year -20.13% +20.12% +44.44%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Denial-of-Service in Yorkshire

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
West Yorkshire -23 7 £550 -28.10% 4
South Yorkshire -58 1 £675 -
Distributed Denial-of-Service
England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) IaaS
2 5 (62.50%) PaaS
2 5 (62.50%) SaaS
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Akamai
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) IPsec
1 5 (62.50%) Kerberos
1 5 (62.50%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Architect
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Technical Architect
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth2
1 5 (62.50%) OpenID
1 5 (62.50%) SAML
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
1 5 (62.50%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 6 (75.00%) UML
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) ArchiMate
3 5 (62.50%) BPEL
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (62.50%) Data Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Project Management
3 5 (62.50%) SOA
3 5 (62.50%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CEH
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) BiZZdesign