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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 778 887 1095
Rank change year-on-year +109 +208 -272
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 106 88 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.088% 0.090%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 82 63 97
10th Percentile £46,375 £44,192 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,577 £53,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £81,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -20.25% +20.74%
75th Percentile £84,919 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £102,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £79,842 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +45.17% -21.43% +7.69%

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 35,155 42,392 77,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.62% 47.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,026 23,184 34,267
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,483 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,625
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 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £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 20 May 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 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +105 90 £79,842 +18.28% 14
Work from Home +129 61 £70,000 -9.68% 8
UK excluding London +24 59 £79,842 +45.17% 15
London +104 37 £72,500 +3.57% 10
North of England - 28 £79,842 - 2
North West - 17 £79,842 - 2
East of England +16 11 £72,500 +61.11% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £79,842 -
Scotland -67 5 £47,500 -13.64% 6
West Midlands - 5 £79,842 -
Midlands - 5 £79,842 -
North East - 4 £79,842 -
South West - 4 £45,603 -
South East -4 2 £67,500 +29.81% 3
Wales - 2 £41,067 - 3
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 -

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 5 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.94%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 63 (59.43%) Azure
2 61 (57.55%) AWS
3 9 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (3.77%) GCP
6 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.94%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.94%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.94%) IaaS
7 1 (0.94%) PaaS
7 1 (0.94%) Route 53
7 1 (0.94%) SaaS
7 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (46.23%) WAN
2 35 (33.02%) Network Security
3 34 (32.08%) Firewall
4 33 (31.13%) SD-WAN
5 21 (19.81%) TCP/IP
6 20 (18.87%) VPN
7 16 (15.09%) LAN
8 11 (10.38%) DNS
9 9 (8.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (8.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 9 (8.49%) Unified Communications
9 9 (8.49%) WLAN
10 8 (7.55%) BGP
10 8 (7.55%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (6.60%) MPLS
11 7 (6.60%) Wireless
12 6 (5.66%) SSL
13 5 (4.72%) Internet
13 5 (4.72%) OSPF
13 5 (4.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
1 6 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.72%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.72%) Power BI
2 5 (4.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.94%) MySQL
3 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (12.26%) Finance
2 10 (9.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Legal
5 6 (5.66%) Marketing
5 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.66%) Retail
6 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.77%) Law
7 4 (3.77%) Welsh Language
8 3 (2.83%) Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (38.68%) Architect
2 39 (36.79%) Security Architect
3 30 (28.30%) Lead
4 27 (25.47%) Lead Architect
4 27 (25.47%) Lead Security Architect
5 19 (17.92%) Network Engineer
5 19 (17.92%) Senior
6 17 (16.04%) Analyst
7 10 (9.43%) Security Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Security Analyst
8 8 (7.55%) Security Manager
8 8 (7.55%) Senior Architect
9 7 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 7 (6.60%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 6 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Information Manager
10 6 (5.66%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Senior Security Architect
10 6 (5.66%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.83%) Sass
2 1 (0.94%) CSS
2 1 (0.94%) HTML
2 1 (0.94%) OAuth
2 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.94%) OpenID
2 1 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.94%) RESTful
2 1 (0.94%) SAML
2 1 (0.94%) Web Services
2 1 (0.94%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (38.68%) Management Information System
2 18 (16.98%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (9.43%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.72%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.72%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.72%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.72%) Smart Energy
4 5 (4.72%) Smart Meter
5 3 (2.83%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.26%) Linux
2 6 (5.66%) Windows
2 6 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.94%) CentOS
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (63.21%) Information Security
2 46 (43.40%) Application Security
3 45 (42.45%) Security Architecture
4 39 (36.79%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (35.85%) CI/CD
6 33 (31.13%) Identity Management
6 33 (31.13%) OWASP
6 33 (31.13%) Secure Coding
7 27 (25.47%) DDoS Mitigation
8 22 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (20.75%) SIEM
9 16 (15.09%) ITIL
10 15 (14.15%) DevOps
10 15 (14.15%) Identity Access Management
10 15 (14.15%) Vulnerability Management
11 14 (13.21%) Security Operations
12 13 (12.26%) Analytics
12 13 (12.26%) Zero Trust
13 12 (11.32%) Change Management
14 11 (10.38%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.60%) SQL
2 5 (4.72%) VB
3 3 (2.83%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.83%) Python
4 2 (1.89%) C
4 2 (1.89%) C++
5 1 (0.94%) Bash
5 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 54 (50.94%) CISSP
2 47 (44.34%) Cisco Certification
3 41 (38.68%) Azure Certification
4 40 (37.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 40 (37.74%) CCSP
5 39 (36.79%) AWS Certification
6 37 (34.91%) CISM
7 33 (31.13%) CCSK
8 16 (15.09%) Degree
9 7 (6.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (6.60%) CISA
9 7 (6.60%) CompTIA CySA+
9 7 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (6.60%) GIAC
10 6 (5.66%) CCNP
10 6 (5.66%) JNCIA
11 5 (4.72%) SANS
12 4 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (3.77%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (46.23%) NIST
2 15 (14.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (10.38%) PCI DSS
4 8 (7.55%) SOC 2
5 5 (4.72%) GDPR
5 5 (4.72%) GRC
5 5 (4.72%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.72%) NIST 800
6 4 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (3.77%) SLA
7 2 (1.89%) NCSC
8 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 35 (33.02%) Docker
2 6 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.94%) RACF
3 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (33.02%) Kubernetes
2 34 (32.08%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (11.32%) Terraform
4 2 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.89%) Ansible
4 2 (1.89%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.89%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.94%) CASB
5 1 (0.94%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.94%) Packer
5 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.94%) Puppet
5 1 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (16.04%) Cisco
1 17 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.43%) F5
3 9 (8.49%) Zscaler
4 8 (7.55%) Juniper
4 8 (7.55%) Meraki
5 6 (5.66%) Splunk
6 5 (4.72%) CheckPoint
6 5 (4.72%) Forcepoint
6 5 (4.72%) Oracle
6 5 (4.72%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.94%) Arista
7 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.94%) IBM
7 1 (0.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.94%) VMware
7 1 (0.94%) Wallstreet Suite