DDoS Mitigation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

DDoS Mitigation \ Protection \ Detection \ Prevention
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 523 587
Rank change year-on-year +45 +64 +326
Permanent jobs citing DDoS Mitigation 1 12 2
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.005% 0.043% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.048% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £65,250 -
25th Percentile - £67,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £101,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +26.56% +36.17%
75th Percentile - £118,750 £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +33.33% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,887 24,841 31,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.86% 88.50% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,326 17,582 23,320
10th Percentile £25,313 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,888 £57,965 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -7.26% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £99,800 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

DDoS Mitigation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DDoS Mitigation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DDoS Mitigation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DDoS Mitigation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DDoS Mitigation.

DDoS Mitigation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DDoS Mitigation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Imperva
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat