DDoS Mitigation Contracts in the City of London

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring DDoS Mitigation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 148 188
Rank change year-on-year +22 +40 -
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 1 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.047% 0.072% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.080% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £775 £638 £772
90th Percentile - - £788
Central London median daily rate £750 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

DDoS Mitigation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing DDoS Mitigation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for DDoS Mitigation in the City of London

DDoS Mitigation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DDoS Mitigation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DDoS Mitigation in the City of London

DDoS Mitigation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVAS
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AlienVault