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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 790 865 1124
Rank change year-on-year +75 +259 -281
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 115 81 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.085% 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 95 59 89
10th Percentile £46,750 £44,192 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £52,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -17.24% +9.85%
75th Percentile £84,919 £81,750 £83,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £89,000 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £52,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +39.42% -25.71% +12.00%

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 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 2 June 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 2 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
England +93 90 £79,842 +22.83% 11
UK excluding London +9 68 £72,500 +39.42% 14
Work from Home +97 66 £72,500 -6.45% 13
London +104 37 £77,421 +12.61% 6
North of England - 28 £79,842 - 1
North West - 17 £79,842 - 1
Scotland -60 15 £50,000 -9.09% 7
East of England +5 11 £72,500 +61.11% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £79,842 -
West Midlands - 5 £79,842 - 1
Midlands - 5 £79,842 - 2
North East - 4 £79,842 -
South West - 4 £45,603 - 1
South East -22 2 £67,500 +29.81% 1
Wales - 2 £41,067 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

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 6 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.87%) IIS
2 1 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 62 (53.91%) Azure
2 60 (52.17%) AWS
3 9 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.48%) GCP
6 4 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.87%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.87%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.87%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 48 (41.74%) WAN
2 39 (33.91%) Network Security
3 36 (31.30%) Firewall
4 33 (28.70%) SD-WAN
5 22 (19.13%) TCP/IP
6 19 (16.52%) VPN
7 15 (13.04%) LAN
8 12 (10.43%) DNS
9 11 (9.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 11 (9.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 10 (8.70%) BGP
11 9 (7.83%) WLAN
12 8 (6.96%) Unified Communications
13 7 (6.09%) OSPF
13 7 (6.09%) Wireless
13 7 (6.09%) Wireshark
14 6 (5.22%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (5.22%) MPLS
15 4 (3.48%) SSL
15 4 (3.48%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) Relational Database
1 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.35%) Power BI
2 5 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.87%) MySQL
3 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Git
1 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.87%) GitLab
2 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (14.78%) Finance
2 11 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (9.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Legal
4 6 (5.22%) Marketing
4 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.22%) Retail
5 4 (3.48%) Law
5 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.48%) Welsh Language
6 3 (2.61%) Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (34.78%) Architect
2 39 (33.91%) Security Architect
3 30 (26.09%) Lead
4 27 (23.48%) Lead Architect
4 27 (23.48%) Lead Security Architect
5 25 (21.74%) Network Engineer
6 21 (18.26%) Senior
7 16 (13.91%) Analyst
8 14 (12.17%) Security Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (6.96%) Security Manager
11 7 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (6.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 7 (6.09%) Network Security Engineer
11 7 (6.09%) Security Analyst
11 7 (6.09%) Senior Architect
11 7 (6.09%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.22%) Information Manager
12 6 (5.22%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.61%) Sass
2 2 (1.74%) CSS
2 2 (1.74%) HTML
3 1 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (36.52%) Management Information System
2 17 (14.78%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (7.83%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.35%) Smart Energy
4 5 (4.35%) Smart Meter
5 4 (3.48%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.04%) Linux
2 7 (6.09%) Windows
3 6 (5.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.87%) CentOS
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (57.39%) Information Security
2 45 (39.13%) Application Security
2 45 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (39.13%) Security Architecture
3 37 (32.17%) CI/CD
4 33 (28.70%) Identity Management
4 33 (28.70%) OWASP
4 33 (28.70%) Secure Coding
5 31 (26.96%) DDoS Mitigation
6 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (19.13%) SIEM
8 17 (14.78%) Vulnerability Management
9 16 (13.91%) Identity Access Management
9 16 (13.91%) ITIL
10 15 (13.04%) Analytics
11 14 (12.17%) DevOps
12 13 (11.30%) Zero Trust
13 12 (10.43%) Change Management
13 12 (10.43%) Security Operations
14 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.09%) SQL
2 5 (4.35%) Python
2 5 (4.35%) VB
3 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.74%) C
4 2 (1.74%) C++
4 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.87%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (46.09%) CISSP
2 43 (37.39%) Cisco Certification
3 41 (35.65%) Azure Certification
4 39 (33.91%) AWS Certification
5 38 (33.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 38 (33.04%) CCSP
5 38 (33.04%) CISM
6 33 (28.70%) CCSK
7 17 (14.78%) Degree
8 8 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (6.96%) GIAC
9 7 (6.09%) CISA
10 6 (5.22%) JNCIA
11 5 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (4.35%) CCNP
11 5 (4.35%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (4.35%) SANS
12 3 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (1.74%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (44.35%) NIST
2 17 (14.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.70%) PCI DSS
4 7 (6.09%) SOC 2
5 6 (5.22%) GDPR
5 6 (5.22%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.35%) GRC
6 5 (4.35%) NIST 800
7 4 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (3.48%) SLA
8 3 (2.61%) NCSC
9 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 35 (30.43%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 33 (28.70%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (10.43%) Terraform
4 3 (2.61%) Ansible
5 2 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.74%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.74%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.87%) CASB
6 1 (0.87%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.87%) Packer
6 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.87%) Puppet
6 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (13.91%) Cisco
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.70%) F5
3 9 (7.83%) Zscaler
4 8 (6.96%) Juniper
4 8 (6.96%) Meraki
5 7 (6.09%) Splunk
6 5 (4.35%) Oracle
7 4 (3.48%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.48%) Forcepoint
7 4 (3.48%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.48%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.87%) Arista
8 1 (0.87%) IBM
8 1 (0.87%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.87%) VMware
8 1 (0.87%) Wallstreet Suite