Amazon GuardDuty Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Amazon GuardDuty
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Amazon GuardDuty skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.44% 0.15% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £510 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £530 £538 -
90th Percentile £536 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £525 -
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

Amazon GuardDuty falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 322 301 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.73% 45.26% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 216 264
10th Percentile £344 £340 £304
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.05% -4.71%
75th Percentile £550 £552 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £682
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -55.65% +188.37%
75th Percentile £28.75 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon GuardDuty relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Amazon GuardDuty job vacancy trend in Leeds

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SCCP
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) FinOps
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Discovery
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk