Distributed Denial-of-Service Jobs with Work from Home Options

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 623 814
Rank change year-on-year +107 +191 -264
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 68 17 75
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.045% 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 68 13 51
10th Percentile £45,125 £58,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,809 £71,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,421 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £84,919 £88,750 £83,000
90th Percentile £86,443 £102,000 -
UK median annual salary £73,750 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.92% -14.29% +3.70%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,313 14,649 35,766
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.90% 38.82% 47.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,290 10,927 17,359
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £49,263 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,865 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Denial-of-Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Denial-of-Service trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Distributed Denial-of-Service salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Distributed Denial-of-Service salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.47%) nginx
1 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (76.47%) Azure
2 44 (64.71%) AWS
3 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.41%) GCP
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.47%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (1.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 43 (63.24%) WAN
2 33 (48.53%) SD-WAN
3 20 (29.41%) Network Security
4 17 (25.00%) Firewall
5 15 (22.06%) TCP/IP
6 14 (20.59%) VPN
7 11 (16.18%) BGP
8 10 (14.71%) LAN
9 9 (13.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (13.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 9 (13.24%) OSPF
9 9 (13.24%) Wireshark
10 8 (11.76%) DNS
10 8 (11.76%) WLAN
11 6 (8.82%) MPLS
12 4 (5.88%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (5.88%) tcpdump
12 4 (5.88%) Unified Communications
12 4 (5.88%) VXLAN
13 3 (4.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Git
1 1 (1.47%) GitLab
1 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (17.65%) Finance
2 10 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.88%) Law
4 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.88%) Welsh Language
5 2 (2.94%) Marketing
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (48.53%) Architect
1 33 (48.53%) Security Architect
2 27 (39.71%) Lead
2 27 (39.71%) Lead Architect
2 27 (39.71%) Lead Security Architect
3 17 (25.00%) Senior
4 15 (22.06%) Network Engineer
5 11 (16.18%) Security Engineer
5 11 (16.18%) Senior Network Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Architect
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Security Architect
8 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Network Security Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (51.47%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Windows
3 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (60.29%) Application Security
1 41 (60.29%) Information Security
2 36 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 33 (48.53%) Identity Management
3 33 (48.53%) OWASP
3 33 (48.53%) Secure Coding
3 33 (48.53%) Security Architecture
4 21 (30.88%) DDoS Mitigation
5 18 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (19.12%) DevOps
7 12 (17.65%) Analytics
8 11 (16.18%) ITIL
8 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (14.71%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (14.71%) Mentoring
10 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (11.76%) Agile
11 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
11 8 (11.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.88%) Python
2 2 (2.94%) C
2 2 (2.94%) C++
2 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (52.94%) Azure Certification
1 36 (52.94%) CISSP
2 34 (50.00%) CISM
3 33 (48.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 33 (48.53%) AWS Certification
3 33 (48.53%) CCSK
3 33 (48.53%) CCSP
3 33 (48.53%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (8.82%) Degree
5 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.94%) CISA
6 2 (2.94%) GIAC
6 2 (2.94%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.47%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (58.82%) NIST
2 5 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.88%) SLA
3 4 (5.88%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.94%) NCSC
5 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.47%) GDPR
5 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 36 (52.94%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 33 (48.53%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (13.24%) Terraform
4 2 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.94%) Ansible
4 2 (2.94%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.94%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.47%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Cisco
2 8 (11.76%) Meraki
2 8 (11.76%) Zscaler
3 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.35%) F5
4 5 (7.35%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.41%) Juniper
6 2 (2.94%) Splunk
7 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.47%) Wallstreet Suite