DDoS Mitigation Contracts in England

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 622 764
Rank change year-on-year +86 +142 -121
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 15 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.032% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.035% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 9
10th Percentile - £475 £425
25th Percentile £425 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £590 £515
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +14.56% +3.00%
75th Percentile £538 £636 £738
90th Percentile £684 £638 £813
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.29% +3.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DDoS Mitigation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DDoS Mitigation in England

DDoS Mitigation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DDoS Mitigation in England.

Daily rate trend for DDoS Mitigation in England

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DDoS Mitigation in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DDoS Mitigation in England

DDoS Mitigation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
London +98 13 £450 -17.43% 4
Midlands +23 1 - -
West Midlands +14 1 - -
DDoS Mitigation
UK

DDoS Mitigation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 11 (73.33%) Entra ID
3 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (6.67%) IaaS
6 1 (6.67%) PaaS
6 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) Firewall
2 9 (60.00%) DNS
3 5 (33.33%) Network Security
4 4 (26.67%) VPN
5 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (6.67%) IPv4
5 1 (6.67%) IPv6
5 1 (6.67%) LAN
5 1 (6.67%) MPLS
5 1 (6.67%) VPLS
5 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (6.67%) JSON
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.67%) SAML
1 1 (6.67%) XML
1 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
1 9 (60.00%) Windows 10
1 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 8 (53.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 8 (53.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 6 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) SIEM
5 3 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (20.00%) Information Security
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (20.00%) RBAC
5 3 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (20.00%) Security Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) CEH
3 2 (13.33%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (60.00%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) CA
2 8 (53.33%) Qualys
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) F5
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto