Amazon GuardDuty Contract Job Trends in the South West

Amazon GuardDuty
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Amazon GuardDuty skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.098% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £377 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 - -
75th Percentile £439 - -
90th Percentile £449 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -2.17%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 657 694 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.10% 28.25% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 436 737
10th Percentile £224 £244 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £704 £725
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 40 48
10th Percentile - £24.71 £13.25
25th Percentile - £33.00 £15.42
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -16.56%
75th Percentile £35.51 - £78.00
90th Percentile £66.90 - £78.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Amazon GuardDuty job vacancy trend in the South West

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. 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
Bristol - 2 £406 - 1
Amazon GuardDuty
England

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible