Amazon GuardDuty
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon GuardDuty skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 883 910 1157
Rank change year-on-year +27 +247 -284
Permanent jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 19 62 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.061% 0.046%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.054% 0.14% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 25
10th Percentile - £58,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +29.17% -25.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £102,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £70,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.42% +33.81% -39.13%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon GuardDuty as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Salary trend for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 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 +58 18 £70,000 -17.65% 17
UK excluding London +8 16 £71,250 +1.42% 15
Work from Home +62 8 £70,000 -17.65% 14
West Midlands +19 8 £72,500 +20.83% 9
Midlands -3 8 £72,500 +20.83% 9
North of England +56 5 £60,000 - 2
North West - 4 £60,000 - 2
London +58 3 £70,000 -17.65% 4
Yorkshire +88 1 £62,500 -
South East 0 1 £85,000 -
South West -23 1 £65,000 -7.80% 2
Scotland -67 1 - - 1

Amazon GuardDuty
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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) Moodle
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (78.95%) AWS CloudTrail
3 14 (73.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (57.89%) Amazon S3
5 10 (52.63%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (47.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (47.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (42.11%) Serverless
8 4 (21.05%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (15.79%) Route 53
10 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeCommit
11 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (5.26%) Azure
11 1 (5.26%) OCI
11 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Burp Suite
1 2 (10.53%) Metasploit
1 2 (10.53%) sqlmap
2 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Security Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Python Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) IT Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Analyst
8 1 (5.26%) Architect
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
8 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Analyst
8 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Security Analyst
8 1 (5.26%) Senior
8 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) OAuth
1 2 (10.53%) OpenID
1 2 (10.53%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) PropTech
2 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.26%) Educational Technology
4 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (63.16%) Incident Response
3 8 (42.11%) DevSecOps
4 7 (36.84%) Information Security
4 7 (36.84%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (31.58%) Cloud Security
6 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 4 (21.05%) Data Privacy
7 4 (21.05%) Fintech
7 4 (21.05%) ITIL
7 4 (21.05%) ITSM
7 4 (21.05%) PRINCE2
7 4 (21.05%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (21.05%) Service Management
8 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
8 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (68.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (36.84%) NIST
3 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (10.53%) SOC 2
5 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) HAProxy
3 1 (5.26%) Kibana
3 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.26%) Wallstreet Suite