Amazon GuardDuty Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Amazon GuardDuty skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 423 497
Rank change year-on-year +37 +74 -94
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 10 24 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.10% 0.049%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.31% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 8
10th Percentile £518 £500 £519
25th Percentile £525 £510 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +10.28%
75th Percentile £597 £616 £617
90th Percentile £609 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £630
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.70% +26.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,262 7,815 9,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.69% 33.31% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,780 7,206
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.13
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon GuardDuty as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty within the UK excluding London region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +43 10 £563 +10.84% 1
Amazon GuardDuty
UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (60.00%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (30.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Specialist
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Specialist
1 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Operations
1 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (50.00%) Cost Control
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (30.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (30.00%) Supplier Management
3 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Identity
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) Groovy
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) NCSC
3 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle