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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 783 874 1067
Rank change year-on-year +91 +193 -277
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 113 96 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.092% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 86 72 106
10th Percentile £46,875 £44,192 £49,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -21.88% +23.08%
75th Percentile £84,919 £83,750 £83,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +31.82% -21.43% +55.56%

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 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
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 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 27 April 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 27 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
England +132 97 £77,421 +16.86% 15
Work from Home +134 63 £70,000 -9.68% 9
UK excluding London +42 62 £72,500 +31.82% 11
London +130 42 £71,250 +1.79% 11
North of England +74 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 -
Scotland -66 5 £47,500 -13.64% 3
North East -1 4 £79,842 +45.17%
South East +14 2 £67,500 +29.81% 2
Wales - 2 £41,067 - 4
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 -

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 5 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.88%) IIS
2 1 (0.88%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 66 (58.41%) AWS
2 64 (56.64%) Azure
3 9 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.42%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (3.54%) GCP
7 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.88%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.88%) IaaS
8 1 (0.88%) PaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Route 53
8 1 (0.88%) SaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (43.36%) WAN
2 41 (36.28%) Firewall
3 34 (30.09%) Network Security
4 33 (29.20%) SD-WAN
5 20 (17.70%) TCP/IP
5 20 (17.70%) VPN
6 16 (14.16%) LAN
7 14 (12.39%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (9.73%) DNS
9 9 (7.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (7.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 9 (7.96%) Unified Communications
9 9 (7.96%) WLAN
10 8 (7.08%) BGP
11 7 (6.19%) MPLS
11 7 (6.19%) Wireless
12 6 (5.31%) SSL
13 5 (4.42%) Internet
13 5 (4.42%) OSPF
13 5 (4.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
1 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.42%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.42%) Power BI
2 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (11.50%) Finance
2 9 (7.96%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.19%) Retail
5 6 (5.31%) Legal
5 6 (5.31%) Marketing
5 6 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.42%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.54%) Law
7 4 (3.54%) Welsh Language
8 3 (2.65%) Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (36.28%) Architect
2 39 (34.51%) Security Architect
3 30 (26.55%) Lead
4 27 (23.89%) Lead Architect
4 27 (23.89%) Lead Security Architect
5 25 (22.12%) Analyst
6 18 (15.93%) Network Engineer
6 18 (15.93%) Senior
7 16 (14.16%) Security Analyst
8 13 (11.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 9 (7.96%) Security Engineer
9 9 (7.96%) Security Manager
10 8 (7.08%) Senior Architect
11 7 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (6.19%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 6 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.31%) Information Manager
12 6 (5.31%) Information Security Manager
12 6 (5.31%) Senior Network Engineer
12 6 (5.31%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.77%) Sass
2 1 (0.88%) CSS
2 1 (0.88%) HTML
2 1 (0.88%) OAuth
2 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.88%) OpenID
2 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.88%) RESTful
2 1 (0.88%) SAML
2 1 (0.88%) Web Services
2 1 (0.88%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (38.05%) Management Information System
2 24 (21.24%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (8.85%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.42%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.42%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.42%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.42%) Smart Energy
4 5 (4.42%) Smart Meter
5 3 (2.65%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.77%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.73%) Linux
2 5 (4.42%) Windows
2 5 (4.42%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.88%) CentOS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (64.60%) Information Security
2 52 (46.02%) Application Security
3 46 (40.71%) Cybersecurity
3 46 (40.71%) Security Architecture
4 38 (33.63%) CI/CD
5 34 (30.09%) DDoS Mitigation
5 34 (30.09%) OWASP
6 33 (29.20%) Identity Management
6 33 (29.20%) Secure Coding
7 28 (24.78%) SIEM
8 21 (18.58%) Security Operations
9 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (15.04%) ITIL
11 16 (14.16%) Computer Science
11 16 (14.16%) Penetration Testing
12 15 (13.27%) DevOps
12 15 (13.27%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (12.39%) Runbook
13 14 (12.39%) Use Case
13 14 (12.39%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.19%) SQL
2 5 (4.42%) VB
3 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.65%) Python
4 2 (1.77%) C
4 2 (1.77%) C++
5 1 (0.88%) Bash
5 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 59 (52.21%) CISSP
2 53 (46.90%) Cisco Certification
3 46 (40.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 46 (40.71%) CCSP
4 41 (36.28%) Azure Certification
5 39 (34.51%) AWS Certification
6 37 (32.74%) CISM
7 33 (29.20%) CCSK
8 15 (13.27%) Degree
9 13 (11.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (11.50%) CompTIA CySA+
10 10 (8.85%) CompTIA Security+
10 10 (8.85%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (5.31%) CCNP
11 6 (5.31%) CISA
11 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (5.31%) GIAC
12 5 (4.42%) JNCIA
12 5 (4.42%) SANS
13 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (47.79%) NIST
2 14 (12.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (12.39%) SOC 2
3 11 (9.73%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.42%) GRC
4 5 (4.42%) HIPAA
4 5 (4.42%) NIST 800
5 4 (3.54%) GDPR
5 4 (3.54%) SLA
6 3 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.77%) NCSC
8 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 35 (30.97%) Docker
2 7 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) RACF
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (30.97%) Kubernetes
2 34 (30.09%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (10.62%) Terraform
4 2 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.77%) Ansible
4 2 (1.77%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.77%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.88%) CASB
5 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.88%) Packer
5 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.88%) Puppet
5 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (15.93%) Cisco
1 18 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) F5
3 9 (7.96%) Meraki
3 9 (7.96%) Zscaler
4 7 (6.19%) Juniper
5 5 (4.42%) CheckPoint
5 5 (4.42%) Forcepoint
5 5 (4.42%) Oracle
5 5 (4.42%) SolarWinds
5 5 (4.42%) Splunk
6 2 (1.77%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.88%) Arista
7 1 (0.88%) IBM
7 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.88%) Qualys
7 1 (0.88%) VMware
7 1 (0.88%) Wallstreet Suite