DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DDoS Mitigation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 934 1180
Rank change year-on-year +66 +246 -277
Permanent jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 28 41 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.041% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.043% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 24 32 31
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,192 £50,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £74,063 £70,938 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £90,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year -33.33% +55.84% -14.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DDoS Mitigation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

DDoS Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DDoS Mitigation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DDoS Mitigation.

Salary trend for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DDoS Mitigation within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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 +70 19 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Work from Home +87 15 £65,000 +18.18% 2
London +119 13 £52,500 -12.50% 3
UK excluding London -19 6 £60,000 -33.33% 3
South West - 3 £55,000 -
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
Midlands - 1 £65,000 -

DDoS Mitigation
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 1 (3.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) AWS
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (71.43%) Firewall
2 14 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 13 (46.43%) VPN
4 10 (35.71%) Network Security
5 9 (32.14%) DNS
5 9 (32.14%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (32.14%) LAN
5 9 (32.14%) WAN
5 9 (32.14%) WLAN
6 5 (17.86%) BGP
6 5 (17.86%) MPLS
6 5 (17.86%) OSPF
7 4 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (14.29%) tcpdump
7 4 (14.29%) Unified Communications
7 4 (14.29%) VXLAN
7 4 (14.29%) Wireshark
8 1 (3.57%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
3 4 (14.29%) Law
3 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Analyst
1 10 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Security Analyst
3 7 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) Senior
5 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Core Network Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Core Network Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Firewall Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) CSS
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
1 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
4 3 (10.71%) Cyberattack
5 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (35.71%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) Application Security
3 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) DevOps
3 10 (35.71%) ITIL
4 9 (32.14%) Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (32.14%) Machine Learning
4 9 (32.14%) Network Virtualisation
4 9 (32.14%) Penetration Testing
4 9 (32.14%) Runbook
4 9 (32.14%) Security Operations
4 9 (32.14%) SIEM
5 8 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
5 8 (28.57%) Zero Trust
6 7 (25.00%) Change Management
6 7 (25.00%) Information Security
7 6 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) C
2 2 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (35.71%) CISSP
2 8 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 8 (28.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 8 (28.57%) CCSP
2 8 (28.57%) CompTIA CySA+
3 5 (17.86%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (17.86%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (7.14%) CISM
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.57%) CCNA
6 1 (3.57%) CCNP
6 1 (3.57%) CEH
6 1 (3.57%) CHFI
6 1 (3.57%) CISA
6 1 (3.57%) CRISC
6 1 (3.57%) GIAC
6 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) NIST
1 5 (17.86%) SOC 2
2 4 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) CASB
3 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
3 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Cisco
1 9 (32.14%) Zscaler
2 8 (28.57%) Meraki
3 4 (14.29%) F5
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.57%) Juniper
5 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.57%) Wallstreet Suite