Distributed Denial-of-Service Jobs in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. 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 762 815 1091
Rank change year-on-year +53 +276 -281
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 90 64 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.096% 0.077% 0.076%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 72 45 68
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,192 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,809 £52,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -3.57% +1.82%
75th Percentile £84,919 £81,750 £87,188
90th Percentile £96,750 £93,000 £101,875
UK median annual salary £73,750 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.92% -14.29% +3.70%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31,346 36,060 68,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.28% 43.63% 47.60%
Number of salaries quoted 21,105 20,106 30,878
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,125 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,300 £46,900 £46,250
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 £87,480 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Distributed Denial-of-Service in England

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +62 37 £79,842 +14.06% 5
North of England - 28 £79,842 - 1
North West - 17 £79,842 - 1
East of England -1 11 £72,500 +61.11% 2
Yorkshire - 7 £79,842 -
Midlands - 5 £79,842 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £79,842 - 1
South West - 4 £45,603 - 1
North East - 4 £79,842 -
South East -18 2 £67,500 +29.81% 1
Distributed Denial-of-Service
UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) IIS
2 1 (1.11%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 56 (62.22%) AWS
2 49 (54.44%) Azure
3 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) GCP
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.11%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.11%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 40 (44.44%) WAN
2 33 (36.67%) SD-WAN
3 29 (32.22%) Network Security
4 27 (30.00%) Firewall
5 17 (18.89%) TCP/IP
6 12 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 12 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 11 (12.22%) VPN
8 10 (11.11%) BGP
9 9 (10.00%) OSPF
9 9 (10.00%) Wireshark
10 7 (7.78%) DNS
10 7 (7.78%) LAN
10 7 (7.78%) Unified Communications
11 4 (4.44%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (4.44%) MPLS
11 4 (4.44%) tcpdump
11 4 (4.44%) VXLAN
11 4 (4.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 6 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.56%) Power BI
2 5 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.11%) MySQL
3 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Git
1 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.11%) GitLab
2 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (14.44%) Finance
2 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Legal
4 6 (6.67%) Marketing
4 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.67%) Retail
5 4 (4.44%) Law
5 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.33%) Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Welsh Language
8 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (43.33%) Architect
2 38 (42.22%) Security Architect
3 29 (32.22%) Lead
4 27 (30.00%) Lead Architect
4 27 (30.00%) Lead Security Architect
5 21 (23.33%) Senior
6 18 (20.00%) Network Engineer
7 13 (14.44%) Analyst
8 11 (12.22%) Security Engineer
9 9 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
9 9 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (8.89%) Security Manager
11 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 7 (7.78%) Senior Architect
12 6 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 6 (6.67%) Information Manager
12 6 (6.67%) Information Security Manager
12 6 (6.67%) Security Analyst
12 6 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) Sass
2 1 (1.11%) CSS
2 1 (1.11%) HTML
2 1 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (43.33%) Management Information System
2 15 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.56%) Smart Energy
4 5 (5.56%) Smart Meter
5 3 (3.33%) Cyberattack
5 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.22%) Linux
2 6 (6.67%) Windows
2 6 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.11%) CentOS
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (64.44%) Information Security
2 44 (48.89%) Security Architecture
3 39 (43.33%) Application Security
4 33 (36.67%) Cybersecurity
4 33 (36.67%) Identity Management
4 33 (36.67%) OWASP
4 33 (36.67%) Secure Coding
5 32 (35.56%) CI/CD
6 20 (22.22%) DDoS Mitigation
7 17 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (16.67%) SIEM
9 12 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
10 11 (12.22%) ITIL
11 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 10 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 9 (10.00%) Cloud Security
12 9 (10.00%) Configuration Management
13 8 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (8.89%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.67%) SQL
2 5 (5.56%) VB
3 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.22%) Python
5 1 (1.11%) Bash
5 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 51 (56.67%) CISSP
2 41 (45.56%) Azure Certification
2 41 (45.56%) Cisco Certification
3 39 (43.33%) AWS Certification
4 37 (41.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 37 (41.11%) CCSP
4 37 (41.11%) CISM
5 33 (36.67%) CCSK
6 14 (15.56%) Degree
7 8 (8.89%) GIAC
8 7 (7.78%) CISA
8 7 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (6.67%) JNCIA
10 5 (5.56%) SANS
11 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (4.44%) CCNP
11 4 (4.44%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (54.44%) NIST
2 12 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 6 (6.67%) GDPR
4 6 (6.67%) HIPAA
5 5 (5.56%) GRC
5 5 (5.56%) NIST 800
6 4 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (4.44%) SLA
7 1 (1.11%) QA
7 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (36.67%) Docker
2 6 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (36.67%) Kubernetes
1 33 (36.67%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (7.78%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.11%) CASB
5 1 (1.11%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.11%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.11%) Packer
5 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.11%) Puppet
5 1 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.00%) F5
3 7 (7.78%) Cisco
3 7 (7.78%) Juniper
4 6 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 6 (6.67%) Splunk
5 5 (5.56%) Oracle
6 4 (4.44%) Zscaler
7 3 (3.33%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.33%) Forcepoint
7 3 (3.33%) Meraki
7 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.11%) Arista
8 1 (1.11%) IBM
8 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.11%) VMware
8 1 (1.11%) Wallstreet Suite