Distributed Denial-of-Service Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 521 696
Rank change year-on-year -71 +175 -12
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 8 10 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.034% 0.090%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.053% 0.081% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 65
10th Percentile £63,750 £56,547 £44,500
25th Percentile - £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +44.23%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £66,250 £86,500 -
UK median annual salary £73,500 £66,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.94% -11.67% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,067 12,400 25,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.39% 41.66% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 9,881 5,384 15,532
10th Percentile £29,375 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,988 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Distributed Denial-of-Service job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Scotland +10 5 £65,000 +4.00% 3
North of England -37 2 £65,000 -18.75% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £65,000 - 1
East of England - 1 - -
Distributed Denial-of-Service
UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) OSPF
2 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Network Support
2 5 (62.50%) Network Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Change Control
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Fintech
2 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds