Amazon GuardDuty Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Amazon GuardDuty
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Amazon GuardDuty skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.032% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
South East median daily rate £533 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 905 640 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.13% 38.93% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 384 465
10th Percentile £333 £250 £363
25th Percentile £448 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 18 16
10th Percentile £17.50 £14.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £20.39
Median hourly rate £75.00 £17.19 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +336.43% -51.59% +9.91%
75th Percentile £88.00 £32.05 £60.72
90th Percentile £110.75 £42.71 £64.73
South East median hourly rate £63.48 £18.82 £40.50
% change year-on-year +237.30% -53.53% +48.62%

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Amazon GuardDuty job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £575 - 2
Amazon GuardDuty
South East

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft