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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 849 1004
Rank change year-on-year +131 +155 -242
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 97 78 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.084% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 70 58 88
10th Percentile £48,675 £44,192 £48,500
25th Percentile £56,809 £52,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,421 £66,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -8.62% +3.57%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £87,188
90th Percentile £85,375 £91,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -21.88% +23.08%

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 29,467 40,061 60,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.72% 43.24% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20,776 21,656 30,542
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,459 £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 £98,474 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +132 42 £71,250 +1.79% 12
North of England +59 28 £79,842 +45.17% 2
North West - 17 £79,842 - 2
East of England +22 11 £72,500 +61.11%
Yorkshire +98 7 £79,842 +45.17%
Midlands - 6 £72,421 -
South West - 6 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £72,421 -
North East -3 4 £79,842 +45.17%
South East +4 2 £67,500 +29.81% 2
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 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.03%) IIS
2 1 (1.03%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 62 (63.92%) AWS
2 51 (52.58%) Azure
3 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.06%) GCP
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.03%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.03%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.03%) IaaS
7 1 (1.03%) PaaS
7 1 (1.03%) Route 53
7 1 (1.03%) SaaS
7 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 42 (43.30%) WAN
2 33 (34.02%) Firewall
2 33 (34.02%) SD-WAN
3 25 (25.77%) Network Security
4 15 (15.46%) TCP/IP
5 13 (13.40%) Intrusion Detection
5 13 (13.40%) VPN
6 9 (9.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (9.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 9 (9.28%) LAN
6 9 (9.28%) Unified Communications
7 6 (6.19%) DNS
7 6 (6.19%) SSL
8 5 (5.15%) BGP
8 5 (5.15%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (5.15%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (5.15%) Internet
8 5 (5.15%) VoIP
8 5 (5.15%) Wireless
9 4 (4.12%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
1 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.15%) Power BI
2 5 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.03%) MySQL
3 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (8.25%) Finance
2 7 (7.22%) Retail
3 6 (6.19%) Legal
3 6 (6.19%) Marketing
3 6 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.19%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.12%) Law
4 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.09%) Banking
6 2 (2.06%) Welsh Language
7 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (41.24%) Architect
2 38 (39.18%) Security Architect
3 30 (30.93%) Lead
4 27 (27.84%) Lead Architect
4 27 (27.84%) Lead Security Architect
5 23 (23.71%) Analyst
6 16 (16.49%) Security Analyst
6 16 (16.49%) Senior
7 13 (13.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 13 (13.40%) Network Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) Security Manager
9 8 (8.25%) Senior Architect
10 6 (6.19%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 6 (6.19%) Information Manager
10 6 (6.19%) Information Security Manager
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Security Architect
11 5 (5.15%) Integration Analyst
11 5 (5.15%) Security Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Systems Analyst
11 5 (5.15%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) Sass
2 1 (1.03%) CSS
2 1 (1.03%) HTML
2 1 (1.03%) OAuth
2 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.03%) OpenID
2 1 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.03%) RESTful
2 1 (1.03%) SAML
2 1 (1.03%) Web Services
2 1 (1.03%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (42.27%) Management Information System
2 23 (23.71%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (7.22%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.15%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.15%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.15%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.15%) Smart Energy
4 5 (5.15%) Smart Meter
5 3 (3.09%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 5 (5.15%) Windows
2 5 (5.15%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.03%) CentOS
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (70.10%) Information Security
2 48 (49.48%) Application Security
3 45 (46.39%) Security Architecture
4 39 (40.21%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (35.05%) OWASP
6 33 (34.02%) CI/CD
6 33 (34.02%) Identity Management
6 33 (34.02%) Secure Coding
7 25 (25.77%) DDoS Mitigation
8 23 (23.71%) SIEM
9 16 (16.49%) Computer Science
9 16 (16.49%) Security Operations
10 15 (15.46%) Penetration Testing
11 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (14.43%) Runbook
12 13 (13.40%) Security Monitoring
13 12 (12.37%) ITIL
14 11 (11.34%) Configuration Management
15 10 (10.31%) Disaster Recovery
15 10 (10.31%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.22%) SQL
2 5 (5.15%) VB
3 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.03%) Bash
4 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 58 (59.79%) CISSP
2 52 (53.61%) Cisco Certification
3 46 (47.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 46 (47.42%) CCSP
4 41 (42.27%) Azure Certification
5 39 (40.21%) AWS Certification
6 36 (37.11%) CISM
7 33 (34.02%) CCSK
8 13 (13.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (13.40%) CompTIA CySA+
8 13 (13.40%) Degree
9 10 (10.31%) CompTIA Security+
9 10 (10.31%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (6.19%) CCNP
10 6 (6.19%) CISA
10 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (6.19%) GIAC
11 5 (5.15%) JNCIA
11 5 (5.15%) SANS
12 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (53.61%) NIST
2 11 (11.34%) PCI DSS
3 10 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (10.31%) SOC 2
4 5 (5.15%) GRC
4 5 (5.15%) HIPAA
4 5 (5.15%) NIST 800
5 4 (4.12%) GDPR
5 4 (4.12%) SLA
6 3 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 33 (34.02%) Docker
2 7 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) RACF
3 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (35.05%) Single Sign-On
2 33 (34.02%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.22%) Terraform
4 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.06%) Ansible
5 1 (1.03%) CASB
5 1 (1.03%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.03%) Packer
5 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.03%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Cisco
2 10 (10.31%) F5
3 6 (6.19%) Juniper
4 5 (5.15%) CheckPoint
4 5 (5.15%) Forcepoint
4 5 (5.15%) Oracle
4 5 (5.15%) SolarWinds
4 5 (5.15%) Splunk
5 4 (4.12%) Meraki
5 4 (4.12%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.03%) Arista
7 1 (1.03%) IBM
7 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.03%) Qualys
7 1 (1.03%) VMware
7 1 (1.03%) Wallstreet Suite