DDoS Mitigation Contracts

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 680 822
Rank change year-on-year +110 +142 -121
Contract jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 17 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.027% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.030% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile - £475 £450
25th Percentile £425 £488 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £590 £517
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +14.12% +3.40%
75th Percentile £538 £636 £694
90th Percentile £684 £638 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £515
% change year-on-year - +21.36% +8.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +101 15 £450 -24.37% 5
London +89 13 £450 -17.43% 4
Work from Home +125 11 £450 -10.00% 3
UK excluding London +51 1 - - 3
Midlands +20 1 - -
West Midlands +15 1 - -

DDoS Mitigation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (70.59%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Entra ID
3 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (5.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) Firewall
2 10 (58.82%) DNS
3 5 (29.41%) Network Security
4 4 (23.53%) VPN
5 2 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (5.88%) HTTP
6 1 (5.88%) IPv4
6 1 (5.88%) IPv6
6 1 (5.88%) LAN
6 1 (5.88%) MPLS
6 1 (5.88%) VPLS
6 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Security Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Security Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.88%) SAML
1 1 (5.88%) XML
1 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
3 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
1 9 (52.94%) Windows 10
1 9 (52.94%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Vulnerability Management
2 9 (52.94%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 8 (47.06%) Mobile Device Management
4 6 (35.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) SIEM
6 4 (23.53%) Information Security
7 3 (17.65%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 3 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
7 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
7 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 3 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (17.65%) RBAC
7 3 (17.65%) Remediation Plan
7 3 (17.65%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) CEH
2 3 (17.65%) CISSP
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CCIE
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) GCIH
3 1 (5.88%) GIAC
3 1 (5.88%) GPEN
3 1 (5.88%) GWAPT
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) GRC
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) SCCM
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
1 9 (52.94%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) CA
2 8 (47.06%) Qualys
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) F5
3 1 (5.88%) Juniper
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto