DDoS Mitigation Jobs

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DDoS Mitigation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DDoS Mitigation over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 871 931
Rank change year-on-year +185 +60 +237
Permanent jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 4 31 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.031% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.037% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 4 25 33
10th Percentile £52,750 £47,500 £44,192
25th Percentile £60,625 £48,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - £90,000 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -38.89% +55.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,790 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,810 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DDoS Mitigation in the UK

DDoS Mitigation
Top 5 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 9 May 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
England +142 4 £70,000 +27.27% 13
London +100 3 £75,000 +42.86% 10
UK excluding London +177 1 £50,000 -9.09% 9
North of England - 1 £50,000 - 2
North West - 1 £50,000 - 2

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Financial Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Financial Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Security Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
1 3 (75.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) LogRhythm
2 3 (75.00%) Qualys
2 3 (75.00%) Tenable
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet