Distributed Denial-of-Service Jobs

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 793 866 1119
Rank change year-on-year +73 +253 -293
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 114 81 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.086% 0.084%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 94 59 91
10th Percentile £46,625 £44,192 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -17.24% +7.41%
75th Percentile £84,919 £81,750 £83,000
90th Percentile £89,625 £89,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £52,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +39.42% -25.71% +9.80%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,820 40,772 81,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.13% 43.08% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,199 22,412 34,284
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 90 £79,842 +22.83% 9
UK excluding London +13 67 £72,500 +39.42% 12
Work from Home +93 66 £72,500 -6.45% 12
London +110 37 £77,421 +12.61% 6
North of England - 28 £79,842 -
North West - 17 £79,842 -
Scotland -59 14 £51,250 -6.82% 7
East of England +9 11 £72,500 +61.11% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £79,842 -
Midlands - 5 £79,842 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £79,842 - 1
North East - 4 £79,842 -
South West - 4 £45,603 - 1
South East -17 2 £67,500 +29.81% 1
Wales - 2 £41,067 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

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 6 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.88%) IIS
2 1 (0.88%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 62 (54.39%) Azure
2 60 (52.63%) AWS
3 9 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.51%) GCP
6 4 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.63%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.88%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.88%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 48 (42.11%) WAN
2 39 (34.21%) Network Security
3 36 (31.58%) Firewall
4 33 (28.95%) SD-WAN
5 22 (19.30%) TCP/IP
6 19 (16.67%) VPN
7 15 (13.16%) LAN
8 12 (10.53%) DNS
9 11 (9.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 11 (9.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 10 (8.77%) BGP
11 9 (7.89%) WLAN
12 8 (7.02%) Unified Communications
13 7 (6.14%) OSPF
13 7 (6.14%) Wireless
13 7 (6.14%) Wireshark
14 6 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (5.26%) MPLS
15 4 (3.51%) Internet
15 4 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 6 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.39%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.39%) Power BI
2 5 (4.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Git
1 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.88%) GitLab
2 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (14.91%) Finance
2 11 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (9.65%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.14%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Legal
4 6 (5.26%) Marketing
4 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.26%) Retail
5 4 (3.51%) Law
5 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.51%) Welsh Language
6 3 (2.63%) Banking
7 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (35.09%) Architect
2 39 (34.21%) Security Architect
3 30 (26.32%) Lead
4 27 (23.68%) Lead Architect
4 27 (23.68%) Lead Security Architect
5 25 (21.93%) Network Engineer
6 21 (18.42%) Senior
7 16 (14.04%) Analyst
8 14 (12.28%) Security Engineer
9 9 (7.89%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) Security Manager
11 7 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 7 (6.14%) Network Security Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) Security Analyst
11 7 (6.14%) Senior Architect
11 7 (6.14%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 6 (5.26%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) Sass
2 2 (1.75%) CSS
2 2 (1.75%) HTML
3 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (36.84%) Management Information System
2 17 (14.91%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.39%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.39%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.39%) Smart Energy
4 5 (4.39%) Smart Meter
5 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.63%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.16%) Linux
2 7 (6.14%) Windows
3 6 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.88%) CentOS
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (57.89%) Information Security
2 45 (39.47%) Application Security
2 45 (39.47%) Security Architecture
3 44 (38.60%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (32.46%) CI/CD
5 33 (28.95%) Identity Management
5 33 (28.95%) OWASP
5 33 (28.95%) Secure Coding
6 31 (27.19%) DDoS Mitigation
7 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (19.30%) SIEM
9 17 (14.91%) Vulnerability Management
10 16 (14.04%) Identity Access Management
10 16 (14.04%) ITIL
11 15 (13.16%) Analytics
12 14 (12.28%) DevOps
13 13 (11.40%) Zero Trust
14 12 (10.53%) Change Management
14 12 (10.53%) Security Operations
15 11 (9.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.14%) SQL
2 5 (4.39%) Python
2 5 (4.39%) VB
3 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.75%) C
4 2 (1.75%) C++
4 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (46.49%) CISSP
2 43 (37.72%) Cisco Certification
3 41 (35.96%) Azure Certification
4 39 (34.21%) AWS Certification
5 38 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 38 (33.33%) CCSP
5 38 (33.33%) CISM
6 33 (28.95%) CCSK
7 17 (14.91%) Degree
8 8 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (7.02%) GIAC
9 7 (6.14%) CISA
10 6 (5.26%) JNCIA
11 5 (4.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (4.39%) CCNP
11 5 (4.39%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (4.39%) SANS
12 3 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.75%) CEH
13 2 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (44.74%) NIST
2 17 (14.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.77%) PCI DSS
4 7 (6.14%) SOC 2
5 6 (5.26%) GDPR
5 6 (5.26%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.39%) GRC
6 5 (4.39%) NIST 800
7 4 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (3.51%) SLA
8 3 (2.63%) NCSC
9 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 35 (30.70%) Docker
2 6 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (30.70%) Kubernetes
2 33 (28.95%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (10.53%) Terraform
4 3 (2.63%) Ansible
5 2 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.75%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.75%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.88%) CASB
6 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.88%) Packer
6 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.88%) Puppet
6 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (14.04%) Cisco
1 16 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.77%) F5
3 9 (7.89%) Zscaler
4 8 (7.02%) Juniper
4 8 (7.02%) Meraki
5 7 (6.14%) Splunk
6 5 (4.39%) Oracle
7 4 (3.51%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.51%) Forcepoint
7 4 (3.51%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.51%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.88%) Arista
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.88%) VMware
8 1 (0.88%) Wallstreet Suite