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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 762 848 1056
Rank change year-on-year +86 +208 -267
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 90 61 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.070% 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 68 45 73
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,192 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,809 £52,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% -7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £84,919 £81,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £99,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -25.00% +21.21%

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 29,962 37,664 65,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.98% 43.19% 47.12%
Number of salaries quoted 20,892 20,703 30,375
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,686 £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 £87,500 £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 26 May 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 26 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
London +110 38 £75,000 +9.09% 9
North of England - 27 £79,842 - 2
North West - 16 £79,842 - 2
East of England +23 11 £72,500 +61.11% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £79,842 -
Midlands - 5 £79,842 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £79,842 -
South West - 4 £45,603 - 1
North East - 4 £79,842 -
South East -6 2 £67,500 +29.81% 4
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 57 (63.33%) AWS
2 49 (54.44%) Azure
3 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
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 42 (46.67%) WAN
2 33 (36.67%) SD-WAN
3 28 (31.11%) Network Security
4 27 (30.00%) Firewall
5 16 (17.78%) TCP/IP
6 13 (14.44%) VPN
7 11 (12.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 11 (12.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 9 (10.00%) LAN
8 9 (10.00%) Unified Communications
9 7 (7.78%) BGP
10 6 (6.67%) DNS
10 6 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (6.67%) OSPF
10 6 (6.67%) Wireshark
11 5 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (5.56%) Internet
11 5 (5.56%) SSL
11 5 (5.56%) VoIP
11 5 (5.56%) Wireless
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 10 (11.11%) Finance
2 7 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (7.78%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.67%) Legal
3 6 (6.67%) Marketing
3 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.67%) Retail
4 4 (4.44%) Law
4 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.33%) Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Welsh Language
7 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (43.33%) Architect
2 38 (42.22%) Security Architect
3 30 (33.33%) Lead
4 27 (30.00%) Lead Architect
4 27 (30.00%) Lead Security Architect
5 18 (20.00%) Senior
6 16 (17.78%) Network Engineer
7 14 (15.56%) Analyst
8 8 (8.89%) Security Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) Security Manager
9 7 (7.78%) Security Analyst
9 7 (7.78%) Senior Architect
10 6 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 6 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 6 (6.67%) Information Manager
10 6 (6.67%) Information Security Manager
10 6 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
10 6 (6.67%) SOC Engineer
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 16 (17.78%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.56%) Smart Energy
4 5 (5.56%) Smart Meter
5 3 (3.33%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
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 61 (67.78%) Information Security
2 44 (48.89%) Security Architecture
3 41 (45.56%) Application Security
4 33 (36.67%) Identity Management
4 33 (36.67%) OWASP
4 33 (36.67%) Secure Coding
5 32 (35.56%) CI/CD
6 31 (34.44%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (21.11%) DDoS Mitigation
8 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (17.78%) SIEM
9 11 (12.22%) Configuration Management
9 11 (12.22%) ITIL
9 11 (12.22%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 10 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 9 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 8 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (8.89%) Security Operations
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 52 (57.78%) CISSP
2 45 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 41 (45.56%) Azure Certification
4 39 (43.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 39 (43.33%) AWS Certification
4 39 (43.33%) CCSP
5 36 (40.00%) CISM
6 33 (36.67%) CCSK
7 14 (15.56%) Degree
8 7 (7.78%) CISA
8 7 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (7.78%) GIAC
9 6 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (6.67%) CCNP
9 6 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
9 6 (6.67%) JNCIA
10 5 (5.56%) SANS
11 3 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (53.33%) NIST
2 11 (12.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (12.22%) PCI DSS
3 5 (5.56%) GDPR
3 5 (5.56%) GRC
3 5 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.56%) NIST 800
4 4 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (4.44%) SLA
5 3 (3.33%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.11%) QA
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%) 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 11 (12.22%) F5
3 9 (10.00%) Cisco
4 7 (7.78%) Juniper
5 6 (6.67%) Splunk
6 5 (5.56%) CheckPoint
6 5 (5.56%) Forcepoint
6 5 (5.56%) Oracle
6 5 (5.56%) SolarWinds
7 4 (4.44%) Zscaler
8 3 (3.33%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.33%) Meraki
9 1 (1.11%) Arista
9 1 (1.11%) IBM
9 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.11%) VMware
9 1 (1.11%) Wallstreet Suite