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 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 528 629 791
Rank change year-on-year +101 +162 -263
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 64 16 80
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.040% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.10% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 64 14 56
10th Percentile £43,625 £55,000 £50,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -3.13% +18.52%
75th Percentile £84,919 £88,438 £83,000
90th Percentile - £93,125 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -25.00% +21.21%

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 12,089 15,447 34,031
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.42% 38.60% 47.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,244 11,288 17,015
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,165 £110,000 £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 26 May 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 (1.56%) nginx
1 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (81.25%) Azure
2 40 (62.50%) AWS
3 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.13%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 43 (67.19%) WAN
2 33 (51.56%) SD-WAN
3 17 (26.56%) Network Security
4 15 (23.44%) TCP/IP
5 14 (21.88%) Firewall
5 14 (21.88%) VPN
6 10 (15.63%) LAN
7 8 (12.50%) BGP
7 8 (12.50%) DNS
7 8 (12.50%) WLAN
8 6 (9.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 6 (9.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (9.38%) MPLS
8 6 (9.38%) OSPF
8 6 (9.38%) Wireshark
9 4 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (6.25%) tcpdump
9 4 (6.25%) Unified Communications
9 4 (6.25%) VXLAN
10 3 (4.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Git
1 1 (1.56%) GitLab
1 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (14.06%) Finance
1 9 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.25%) Law
3 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
3 4 (6.25%) Welsh Language
4 3 (4.69%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
5 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (51.56%) Architect
1 33 (51.56%) Security Architect
2 27 (42.19%) Lead
2 27 (42.19%) Lead Architect
2 27 (42.19%) Lead Security Architect
3 14 (21.88%) Senior
4 12 (18.75%) Network Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior Architect
6 6 (9.38%) Senior Security Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) IT Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Network Operations Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Core Network Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (54.69%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Linux
2 3 (4.69%) Windows
3 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (64.06%) Application Security
1 41 (64.06%) Information Security
2 36 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 33 (51.56%) Identity Management
3 33 (51.56%) OWASP
3 33 (51.56%) Secure Coding
3 33 (51.56%) Security Architecture
4 17 (26.56%) DDoS Mitigation
5 14 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (20.31%) DevOps
7 12 (18.75%) Analytics
8 11 (17.19%) ITIL
9 10 (15.63%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
9 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (12.50%) Agile
11 8 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
11 8 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.69%) Python
2 2 (3.13%) C
2 2 (3.13%) C++
2 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (56.25%) Azure Certification
1 36 (56.25%) CISSP
2 34 (53.13%) CISM
3 33 (51.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 33 (51.56%) AWS Certification
3 33 (51.56%) CCSK
3 33 (51.56%) CCSP
3 33 (51.56%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (10.94%) Degree
5 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.13%) CISA
6 2 (3.13%) GIAC
6 2 (3.13%) JNCIA
6 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (57.81%) NIST
2 5 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.25%) SLA
3 4 (6.25%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.13%) NCSC
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.56%) GDPR
5 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 35 (54.69%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (54.69%) Kubernetes
2 33 (51.56%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (14.06%) Terraform
4 2 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (3.13%) Ansible
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (3.13%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.56%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Cisco
2 8 (12.50%) Meraki
2 8 (12.50%) Zscaler
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.81%) F5
5 3 (4.69%) Juniper
6 2 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.56%) Wallstreet Suite