Distributed Denial-of-Service Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Denial-of-Service in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 527 651
Rank change year-on-year +119 +124 +101
Permanent jobs citing Distributed Denial-of-Service 5 62 20
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.18% 0.047%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.085% 0.52% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 62 19
10th Percentile £45,640 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,577 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -6.45% -3.13%
75th Percentile £63,750 £84,919 £88,125
90th Percentile - - £96,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +16.00% -21.88%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,850 12,021 16,469
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.09% 35.52% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,841 9,245 11,863
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Distributed Denial-of-Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Denial-of-Service trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Distributed Denial-of-Service.

Distributed Denial-of-Service salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Denial-of-Service
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Distributed Denial-of-Service over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Distributed Denial-of-Service salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Denial-of-Service
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (20.00%) IPsec
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) IT Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (40.00%) Application Security
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (40.00%) Information Security
4 2 (40.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Network Design
4 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (40.00%) SOAR
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Tufin