Distributed Denial-of-Service Jobs

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 have cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 792 879 1076
Rank change year-on-year +87 +197 -273
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 110 93 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.092% 0.098%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 85 67 98
10th Percentile £46,750 £44,192 £49,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £80,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -19.50% +24.23%
75th Percentile £84,919 £83,750 £83,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +31.82% -21.43% +53.85%

All Generic Skills
UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Distributed Denial-of-Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Denial-of-Service in the UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Top 16 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 9 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 +118 94 £79,842 +18.28% 10
UK excluding London +35 62 £72,500 +31.82% 5
Work from Home +115 61 £70,000 -9.68% 5
London +101 39 £72,500 +3.57% 8
North of England +78 28 £79,842 +45.17% 1
North West - 17 £79,842 - 1
East of England +30 11 £72,500 +61.11%
Yorkshire +96 7 £79,842 +45.17%
Midlands - 6 £72,421 -
South West - 6 £52,500 -
West Midlands - 6 £72,421 -
Scotland -68 5 £47,500 -13.64%
North East -3 4 £79,842 +45.17%
South East -15 2 £67,500 +29.81% 1
Wales - 2 £41,067 - 3
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 -

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.91%) IIS
2 1 (0.91%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 64 (58.18%) AWS
1 64 (58.18%) Azure
2 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) GCP
6 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.91%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.91%) IaaS
7 1 (0.91%) PaaS
7 1 (0.91%) Route 53
7 1 (0.91%) SaaS
7 1 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (44.55%) WAN
2 38 (34.55%) Firewall
3 35 (31.82%) Network Security
4 33 (30.00%) SD-WAN
5 21 (19.09%) TCP/IP
6 20 (18.18%) VPN
7 16 (14.55%) LAN
8 12 (10.91%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (10.00%) DNS
10 9 (8.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (8.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 9 (8.18%) Unified Communications
10 9 (8.18%) WLAN
11 8 (7.27%) BGP
12 7 (6.36%) MPLS
12 7 (6.36%) Wireless
13 6 (5.45%) SSL
14 5 (4.55%) Internet
14 5 (4.55%) OSPF
14 5 (4.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Relational Database
1 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.55%) Power BI
2 5 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.91%) MySQL
3 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.91%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (11.82%) Finance
2 9 (8.18%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Legal
5 6 (5.45%) Marketing
5 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.45%) Retail
6 5 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.64%) Law
7 4 (3.64%) Welsh Language
8 3 (2.73%) Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (37.27%) Architect
2 39 (35.45%) Security Architect
3 30 (27.27%) Lead
4 27 (24.55%) Lead Architect
4 27 (24.55%) Lead Security Architect
5 22 (20.00%) Analyst
6 19 (17.27%) Network Engineer
7 18 (16.36%) Senior
8 13 (11.82%) Security Analyst
9 11 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 10 (9.09%) Security Engineer
11 8 (7.27%) Security Manager
11 8 (7.27%) Senior Architect
12 7 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (6.36%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 6 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (5.45%) Information Manager
13 6 (5.45%) Information Security Manager
13 6 (5.45%) Senior Security Architect
13 6 (5.45%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.82%) Sass
2 1 (0.91%) CSS
2 1 (0.91%) HTML
2 1 (0.91%) OAuth
2 1 (0.91%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.91%) OpenID
2 1 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.91%) RESTful
2 1 (0.91%) SAML
2 1 (0.91%) Web Services
2 1 (0.91%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (38.18%) Management Information System
2 21 (19.09%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.55%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.55%) Smart Energy
4 5 (4.55%) Smart Meter
5 3 (2.73%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.91%) Linux
2 5 (4.55%) Windows
2 5 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.91%) CentOS
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (63.64%) Information Security
2 50 (45.45%) Application Security
3 45 (40.91%) Security Architecture
4 43 (39.09%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (34.55%) CI/CD
6 33 (30.00%) Identity Management
6 33 (30.00%) OWASP
6 33 (30.00%) Secure Coding
7 31 (28.18%) DDoS Mitigation
8 25 (22.73%) SIEM
9 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (17.27%) Security Operations
11 16 (14.55%) ITIL
12 15 (13.64%) Computer Science
12 15 (13.64%) DevOps
12 15 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (12.73%) Vulnerability Management
14 13 (11.82%) Analytics
14 13 (11.82%) Penetration Testing
14 13 (11.82%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.36%) SQL
2 5 (4.55%) VB
3 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.73%) Python
4 2 (1.82%) C
4 2 (1.82%) C++
5 1 (0.91%) Bash
5 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 58 (52.73%) CISSP
2 51 (46.36%) Cisco Certification
3 44 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 44 (40.00%) CCSP
4 41 (37.27%) Azure Certification
5 39 (35.45%) AWS Certification
6 37 (33.64%) CISM
7 33 (30.00%) CCSK
8 16 (14.55%) Degree
9 11 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
10 8 (7.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (7.27%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (6.36%) CISA
11 7 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (6.36%) GIAC
12 6 (5.45%) CCNP
12 6 (5.45%) JNCIA
13 5 (4.55%) SANS
14 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (47.27%) NIST
2 14 (12.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (10.91%) SOC 2
4 11 (10.00%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.55%) GRC
5 5 (4.55%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.55%) NIST 800
6 4 (3.64%) GDPR
6 4 (3.64%) SLA
7 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.82%) NCSC
9 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 35 (31.82%) Docker
2 6 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) RACF
3 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 34 (30.91%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (10.91%) Terraform
4 2 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.82%) Ansible
4 2 (1.82%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.82%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.91%) CASB
5 1 (0.91%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.91%) Packer
5 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.91%) Puppet
5 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.45%) Cisco
3 10 (9.09%) F5
4 9 (8.18%) Zscaler
5 8 (7.27%) Juniper
5 8 (7.27%) Meraki
6 6 (5.45%) Splunk
7 5 (4.55%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.55%) Forcepoint
7 5 (4.55%) Oracle
7 5 (4.55%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.91%) Arista
8 1 (0.91%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.91%) IBM
8 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.91%) Qualys
8 1 (0.91%) VMware
8 1 (0.91%) Wallstreet Suite