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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 572 711
Rank change year-on-year +86 +139 -127
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 56 67 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.42% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 53 59
10th Percentile - £260 £437
25th Percentile £425 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £631 £674
90th Percentile £723 £638 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -11.02% +2.61% -4.17%
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 11,251 16,100 23,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.47% 33.72% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,318 11,239 17,150
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 556 608
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.21 £10.63 £17.38
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.27 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

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 2 June 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 2 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 +112 31 £525 -12.50% 6
East of England -4 11 £650 +8.33% 1
Yorkshire +25 6 £558 -
Midlands +24 6 £540 -1.82% 1
North of England +23 6 £558 +6.19% 1
East Midlands - 4 £540 -
West Midlands +10 2 - - 1
South West - 1 £600 - 1
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 (19.64%) CMS
2 2 (3.57%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (44.64%) Azure
2 14 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 10 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (16.07%) Akamai
5 8 (14.29%) AWS
6 6 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (10.71%) Cloudflare
7 5 (8.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (8.93%) SaaS
8 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.36%) IaaS
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.57%) GCP
9 2 (3.57%) PaaS
10 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (1.79%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.79%) Serverless
10 1 (1.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (44.64%) Firewall
2 23 (41.07%) DNS
3 14 (25.00%) Network Security
4 11 (19.64%) HTTP
5 5 (8.93%) Internet
5 5 (8.93%) SMTP
5 5 (8.93%) SSL
6 4 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (7.14%) FTP
6 4 (7.14%) IPsec
6 4 (7.14%) SAN
6 4 (7.14%) VPN
7 3 (5.36%) HTTPS
7 3 (5.36%) LAN
7 3 (5.36%) MPLS
7 3 (5.36%) WAN
7 3 (5.36%) Wireshark
8 2 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 15 (26.79%) Finance
2 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Retail
5 5 (8.93%) Marketing
6 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Senior
2 12 (21.43%) Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Architect
3 11 (19.64%) Security Engineer
3 11 (19.64%) SOC Analyst
4 8 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (12.50%) Network Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Network Architect
6 5 (8.93%) Security Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Junior
8 3 (5.36%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Consultant
9 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Network Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) LDAP
2 4 (7.14%) SAML
3 3 (5.36%) gRPC
3 3 (5.36%) WebSockets
4 2 (3.57%) OAuth
5 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.79%) JSON
5 1 (1.79%) JWT
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.79%) Web Services
5 1 (1.79%) XML
5 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Cyberattack
2 9 (16.07%) Data Centre
2 9 (16.07%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (8.93%) Security Posture
3 5 (8.93%) Social Media
4 4 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.36%) HP Storage
5 3 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.36%) PKI
6 1 (1.79%) IVR
6 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (48.21%) Windows
2 16 (28.57%) Linux
3 9 (16.07%) Windows 10
3 9 (16.07%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.14%) AIX
4 4 (7.14%) Solaris
5 3 (5.36%) Unix
6 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (26.79%) DDoS Mitigation
2 15 (26.79%) Incident Response
3 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (19.64%) Security Operations
4 11 (19.64%) Vulnerability Management
5 10 (17.86%) SIEM
6 9 (16.07%) Computer Science
7 8 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 8 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
7 8 (14.29%) OWASP
7 8 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 7 (12.50%) Information Security
8 7 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 6 (10.71%) ITIL
9 6 (10.71%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (10.71%) RBAC
10 5 (8.93%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (8.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.71%) Python
3 5 (8.93%) Bash
4 4 (7.14%) SQL
5 2 (3.57%) Bicep
6 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) Degree
4 9 (16.07%) CCIE
4 9 (16.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.93%) CCNP
6 3 (5.36%) CEH
6 3 (5.36%) CISSP
6 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.79%) CCNA
8 1 (1.79%) CCSP
8 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.14%) NIST
3 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) SCCM
2 5 (8.93%) Terraform
3 4 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (5.36%) FortiGate
4 3 (5.36%) HP Data Protector
4 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.36%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 15 (26.79%) Cisco
3 12 (21.43%) F5
4 11 (19.64%) Darktrace
4 11 (19.64%) FireEye
4 11 (19.64%) LogRhythm
4 11 (19.64%) Splunk
5 9 (16.07%) VMware
6 8 (14.29%) CA
6 8 (14.29%) Qualys
7 7 (12.50%) Symantec
8 6 (10.71%) Juniper
9 5 (8.93%) Arista
10 4 (7.14%) Brocade
10 4 (7.14%) EMC
10 4 (7.14%) IronPort
10 4 (7.14%) Palo Alto
11 3 (5.36%) Dynatrace
11 3 (5.36%) HP
11 3 (5.36%) New Relic