Distributed Denial-of-Service Job Trends

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 683 677
Rank change year-on-year +53 -6 +237
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 12 24 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.045% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.059% 0.12% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 43
10th Percentile - £50,500 £48,551
25th Percentile £85,000 £53,125 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +107.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £142,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,345 19,868 20,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.31% 37.15% 36.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,183 9,316 14,895
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.31% +3.38% -3.64%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Trend

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

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Top 3 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 January 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
England +74 12 £135,000 +107.69% 80
London +57 12 £135,000 +107.69% 5
Work from Home +69 10 £135,000 - 4

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Mimecast
3 3 (25.00%) Tessian
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (33.33%) Firewall
3 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) Network Security
3 3 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (33.33%) Law
3 4 (33.33%) Retail
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cyberattack
2 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (33.33%) Insider Threat
3 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (25.00%) Low-Code
3 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (25.00%) Web3
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) AI
1 8 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
4 4 (33.33%) Disruptive Innovation
4 4 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (33.33%) Fintech
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 4 (33.33%) SIEM
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) OSCP
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 4 (33.33%) CREST Certified
2 4 (33.33%) OSCE
3 3 (25.00%) CCNP
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (25.00%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) CISM
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 4 (33.33%) EU AI Act
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco
1 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 3 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (8.33%) Imperva
3 1 (8.33%) Qualys
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk