DDoS Mitigation Job Trends in the South West

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DDoS Mitigation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 - 244
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.022% - 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% - 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51,830
25th Percentile £53,750 - £58,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £72,319
75th Percentile £61,250 - £86,980
90th Percentile - - £93,876
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -20.00% +140.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

DDoS Mitigation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,567 2,867 6,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.41% 82.96% 75.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,370 1,876 4,108
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DDoS Mitigation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

DDoS Mitigation job vacancy trend in the South West

DDoS Mitigation
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DDoS Mitigation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DDoS Mitigation

DDoS Mitigation
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DDoS Mitigation within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 August 2026. 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
Dorset - 2 £57,500 - 2
DDoS Mitigation
England

DDoS Mitigation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (100.00%) PMI
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef