Distributed Denial-of-Service Job Trends in Central London

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 178 191
Rank change year-on-year +38 +13 +119
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.39% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - - £59,000
25th Percentile - £106,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £112,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +55.17% +31.82%
75th Percentile - £118,750 £76,875
90th Percentile - - £78,125
London median annual salary £90,000 £112,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +55.17% +7.41%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Distributed Denial-of-Service falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 862 1,287 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 43.19% 39.30% 36.77%
Number of salaries quoted 675 792 1,222
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,004 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £115,000 £120,000
London median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in Central London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Distributed Denial-of-Service

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
City of London +35 2 £85,000 -24.44% 3
Distributed Denial-of-Service
London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (50.00%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) Imperva