Amazon GuardDuty Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon GuardDuty skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 327 392
Rank change year-on-year -48 +65 +63
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 17 17 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.12% 0.026%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.39% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 3
10th Percentile £423 £491 -
25th Percentile £466 £511 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £600 £538 £606
90th Percentile - £551 £648
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,805 4,320 5,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.02% 31.53% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,059 2,850 4,211
10th Percentile £238 £238 £213
25th Percentile £375 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -0.99%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 106 177
10th Percentile £13.15 £15.88 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.42 £24.18 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% +16.42% +8.86%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.41 £64.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.35 £22.75
% change year-on-year +0.55% +20.22% +1.11%

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon GuardDuty job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 13 January 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
North of England -52 7 £500 -2.44%
Yorkshire -39 5 £520 -0.95%
South East - 4 £600 - 2
South West - 2 £406 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
North East - 2 £466 -
Scotland -9 1 £550 +4.76% 1
East of England - 1 £600 - 1
Amazon GuardDuty
UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (82.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (64.71%) AWS CloudTrail
4 9 (52.94%) AWS KMS
5 7 (41.18%) AWS Control Tower
5 7 (41.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
7 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (23.53%) Serverless
9 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (17.65%) Azure
9 3 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
10 2 (11.76%) GitHub
10 2 (11.76%) IaaS
10 2 (11.76%) PaaS
10 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) SCCP
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) Cloud Security
3 7 (41.18%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
4 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
4 5 (29.41%) Threat Detection
5 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
5 4 (23.53%) FinOps
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (23.53%) RBAC
5 4 (23.53%) Runbook
5 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (17.65%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (17.65%) Security Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) SIEM
6 3 (17.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) AWS Certification
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (47.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (23.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (23.53%) NCSC
3 3 (17.65%) GDPR
3 3 (17.65%) NIST
4 2 (11.76%) HIPAA
4 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) CloudEndure
2 4 (23.53%) Citrix
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk