Distributed Denial-of-Service Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in permanent job vacancies in the City of 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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 166 188
Rank change year-on-year +33 +22 +111
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 2 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.12% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.45% 0.47%
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
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £112,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -24.44% +55.17% +31.82%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 737 1,117 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 43.25% 38.73% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 596 711 1,129
10th Percentile £39,450 £46,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £117,500 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the City of London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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