Distributed Denial-of-Service Contracts

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 621 735
Rank change year-on-year +112 +114 -91
Contract jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 62 66 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.35% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 51 78
10th Percentile £416 £260 £384
25th Percentile £425 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £665
90th Percentile £721 £650 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.67% -2.17%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,884 18,935 29,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.25% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 13,036 20,297
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 624 711
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -11.29%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +98 53 £525 -12.50% 10
London +113 29 £513 -10.87% 5
Work from Home +110 25 £500 -16.67% 7
UK excluding London +37 25 £570 -5.00% 14
East of England -9 11 £650 +8.33% 2
North of England +26 6 £558 -7.08% 2
Midlands +21 6 £540 -6.09%
Yorkshire +19 6 £558 -
East Midlands - 4 £540 -
West Midlands +17 2 - -
Wales - 1 £363 - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 5

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (17.74%) CMS
2 2 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.94%) Azure
2 12 (19.35%) Entra ID
3 11 (17.74%) AWS
4 10 (16.13%) Akamai
4 10 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (11.29%) Cloudflare
6 6 (9.68%) SaaS
7 5 (8.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (6.45%) AWS KMS
8 4 (6.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (6.45%) Serverless
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.84%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (38.71%) DNS
1 24 (38.71%) Firewall
2 16 (25.81%) Network Security
3 11 (17.74%) HTTP
4 5 (8.06%) Internet
5 4 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (6.45%) IPsec
5 4 (6.45%) SAN
5 4 (6.45%) SMTP
5 4 (6.45%) SSL
5 4 (6.45%) VPN
6 3 (4.84%) FTP
6 3 (4.84%) HTTPS
6 3 (4.84%) LAN
6 3 (4.84%) MPLS
6 3 (4.84%) WAN
6 3 (4.84%) Wireshark
7 2 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (3.23%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (4.84%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.61%) Git
General
1 12 (19.35%) Finance
2 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Retail
5 5 (8.06%) Marketing
6 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Senior
2 13 (20.97%) Architect
3 12 (19.35%) Analyst
4 11 (17.74%) SOC Analyst
5 9 (14.52%) Security Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (11.29%) Network Engineer
7 7 (11.29%) Security Architect
8 5 (8.06%) Consultant
8 5 (8.06%) Network Architect
9 4 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 3 (4.84%) AWS Consultant
10 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Junior
10 3 (4.84%) Junior Analyst
10 3 (4.84%) Senior Architect
10 3 (4.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) LDAP
2 4 (6.45%) SAML
3 3 (4.84%) gRPC
3 3 (4.84%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.61%) JSON
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.61%) Web Services
4 1 (1.61%) XML
4 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Cyberattack
2 9 (14.52%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.52%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (8.06%) PKI
3 5 (8.06%) Security Posture
3 5 (8.06%) Social Media
4 4 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.84%) HP Storage
5 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) IVR
6 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (43.55%) Windows
2 16 (25.81%) Linux
3 9 (14.52%) Windows 10
3 9 (14.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.45%) AIX
4 4 (6.45%) Solaris
5 3 (4.84%) Unix
6 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (22.58%) DDoS Mitigation
2 14 (22.58%) Incident Response
2 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (17.74%) Security Operations
4 10 (16.13%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (14.52%) Computer Science
5 9 (14.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 8 (12.90%) Migration
6 8 (12.90%) Mobile Device Management
6 8 (12.90%) SIEM
7 7 (11.29%) Cloud Security
7 7 (11.29%) Information Security
7 7 (11.29%) OWASP
8 6 (9.68%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (9.68%) ITIL
9 5 (8.06%) Configuration Management
9 5 (8.06%) Customer Service
9 5 (8.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.06%) Bash
3 4 (6.45%) Python
3 4 (6.45%) SQL
4 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.97%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (16.13%) Degree
4 9 (14.52%) CCIE
4 9 (14.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.06%) CCNP
7 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.23%) CEH
8 2 (3.23%) CISSP
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.61%) CCNA
9 1 (1.61%) CCSP
9 1 (1.61%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.84%) Docker
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) SCCM
2 6 (9.68%) Terraform
3 5 (8.06%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.45%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (4.84%) FortiGate
5 3 (4.84%) HP Data Protector
5 3 (4.84%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 15 (24.19%) Cisco
3 12 (19.35%) F5
4 11 (17.74%) Darktrace
4 11 (17.74%) FireEye
4 11 (17.74%) LogRhythm
4 11 (17.74%) Splunk
5 9 (14.52%) VMware
6 8 (12.90%) CA
6 8 (12.90%) Qualys
7 6 (9.68%) Juniper
7 6 (9.68%) Palo Alto
7 6 (9.68%) Symantec
8 5 (8.06%) Arista
9 4 (6.45%) Brocade
9 4 (6.45%) EMC
10 3 (4.84%) Dynatrace
10 3 (4.84%) HP
10 3 (4.84%) New Relic
10 3 (4.84%) SolarWinds