Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts in England

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 583 697
Rank change year-on-year +99 +114 -102
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 53 64 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.40% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 51 59
10th Percentile - £260 £378
25th Percentile £425 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £661
90th Percentile £728 £650 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Generic Skills
England

Distributed Denial-of-Service is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,145 16,189 23,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 33.64% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,254 16,999
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 576 631
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.21
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in England.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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 Distributed Denial-of-Service within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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 +99 29 £513 -10.87% 4
East of England -3 11 £650 +8.33% 2
Midlands +28 6 £540 -6.09%
North of England +20 6 £558 -7.08% 2
Yorkshire +17 6 £558 -
East Midlands - 4 £540 -
West Midlands +19 2 - -
Distributed Denial-of-Service
UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (20.75%) CMS
2 2 (3.77%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) Azure
2 12 (22.64%) Entra ID
3 10 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (16.98%) Akamai
5 8 (15.09%) AWS
6 6 (11.32%) Cloudflare
7 5 (9.43%) SaaS
8 4 (7.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.66%) IaaS
10 2 (3.77%) GCP
10 2 (3.77%) PaaS
11 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (1.89%) AWS KMS
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.89%) Serverless
11 1 (1.89%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (43.40%) Firewall
2 22 (41.51%) DNS
3 12 (22.64%) Network Security
4 10 (18.87%) HTTP
5 5 (9.43%) Internet
6 4 (7.55%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (7.55%) IPsec
6 4 (7.55%) SAN
6 4 (7.55%) SMTP
6 4 (7.55%) SSL
7 3 (5.66%) FTP
7 3 (5.66%) HTTPS
7 3 (5.66%) LAN
7 3 (5.66%) MPLS
7 3 (5.66%) VPN
7 3 (5.66%) WAN
7 3 (5.66%) Wireshark
8 2 (3.77%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 12 (22.64%) Finance
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Retail
5 5 (9.43%) Marketing
6 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Senior
2 12 (22.64%) Analyst
3 11 (20.75%) SOC Analyst
4 10 (18.87%) Architect
5 9 (16.98%) Security Engineer
6 8 (15.09%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (13.21%) Network Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Network Architect
9 4 (7.55%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Security Architect
10 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Junior
10 3 (5.66%) Junior Analyst
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 2 (3.77%) Backup Engineer
11 2 (3.77%) Consultant
11 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Security Architect
11 2 (3.77%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) LDAP
2 4 (7.55%) SAML
3 3 (5.66%) gRPC
3 3 (5.66%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.89%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) OAuth
4 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.89%) Web Services
4 1 (1.89%) XML
4 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Cyberattack
2 9 (16.98%) Data Centre
2 9 (16.98%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (9.43%) Security Posture
3 5 (9.43%) Social Media
4 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.66%) HP Storage
5 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.66%) PKI
6 1 (1.89%) IVR
6 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (50.94%) Windows
2 16 (30.19%) Linux
3 9 (16.98%) Windows 10
3 9 (16.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.55%) AIX
4 4 (7.55%) Solaris
5 3 (5.66%) Unix
6 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (26.42%) Incident Response
2 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (24.53%) DDoS Mitigation
4 11 (20.75%) Security Operations
5 9 (16.98%) Computer Science
5 9 (16.98%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (15.09%) Mobile Device Management
6 8 (15.09%) SIEM
6 8 (15.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 7 (13.21%) Information Security
7 7 (13.21%) OWASP
8 6 (11.32%) Cloud Security
8 6 (11.32%) ITIL
9 5 (9.43%) Configuration Management
9 5 (9.43%) Customer Service
9 5 (9.43%) Mentoring
9 5 (9.43%) Migration
10 4 (7.55%) DevOps
10 4 (7.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.75%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.43%) Bash
3 4 (7.55%) Python
3 4 (7.55%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) Degree
4 9 (16.98%) CCIE
4 9 (16.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (9.43%) CCNP
6 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) CEH
7 2 (3.77%) CISSP
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.89%) CCNA
8 1 (1.89%) CCSP
8 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) SCCM
2 4 (7.55%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (5.66%) FortiGate
3 3 (5.66%) HP Data Protector
3 3 (5.66%) NetBackup
3 3 (5.66%) Terraform
4 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 15 (28.30%) Cisco
3 12 (22.64%) F5
4 11 (20.75%) Darktrace
4 11 (20.75%) FireEye
4 11 (20.75%) LogRhythm
4 11 (20.75%) Splunk
5 9 (16.98%) VMware
6 8 (15.09%) CA
6 8 (15.09%) Qualys
7 6 (11.32%) Juniper
7 6 (11.32%) Symantec
8 5 (9.43%) Arista
9 4 (7.55%) Brocade
9 4 (7.55%) EMC
9 4 (7.55%) Palo Alto
10 3 (5.66%) HP
10 3 (5.66%) IronPort
10 3 (5.66%) New Relic
10 3 (5.66%) SolarWinds