Amazon GuardDuty Contract Job Trends

Amazon GuardDuty
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon GuardDuty skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 512 566
Rank change year-on-year -25 +54 +174
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 56 24 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.072% 0.067%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 18 24
10th Percentile £419 £486 £513
25th Percentile £463 £511 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +7.98%
75th Percentile £597 £550 £591
90th Percentile £716 £555 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,051 12,068 14,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.08% 36.22% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,631 8,044 10,750
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 174 264
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.65 £14.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +6.55% +14.71%
75th Percentile £56.25 £44.90 £57.63
90th Percentile £78.15 £68.75 £78.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.59% +15.14% +7.69%

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon GuardDuty job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 December 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
England -9 45 £513 -6.82% 107
London +11 28 £513 -6.82% 12
Work from Home +8 23 £500 -4.21% 112
UK excluding London -47 17 £520 -0.95% 112
North of England -43 7 £500 -2.44% 26
Yorkshire -40 5 £520 -0.95% 10
South East - 4 £600 - 23
South West - 2 £406 - 12
West Midlands - 2 - - 14
Midlands - 2 - - 25
North East - 2 £466 - 1
Scotland -9 1 £550 +4.76% 7
East of England - 1 £600 - 11

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 28 (50.00%) AWS KMS
4 22 (39.29%) AWS CloudTrail
5 19 (33.93%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (32.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (28.57%) AWS Control Tower
8 15 (26.79%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (23.21%) Azure
9 13 (23.21%) Entra ID
10 7 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (12.50%) Serverless
11 6 (10.71%) GitHub
12 5 (8.93%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (5.36%) Amazon Macie
14 3 (5.36%) AWS CodePipeline
14 3 (5.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) Network Security
2 3 (5.36%) VPN
3 2 (3.57%) Firewall
4 1 (1.79%) BGP
4 1 (1.79%) SCCP
4 1 (1.79%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.14%) GitLab
3 3 (5.36%) JIRA
4 2 (3.57%) Git
5 1 (1.79%) Metasploit
5 1 (1.79%) Snyk
General
1 20 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Architect
2 18 (32.14%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) AWS Architect
4 10 (17.86%) Security Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Security Architect
6 8 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (14.29%) Senior
7 7 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) AWS Security Architect
8 5 (8.93%) Consultant
8 5 (8.93%) Lead
8 5 (8.93%) Lead Architect
8 5 (8.93%) Lead Cloud Architect
8 5 (8.93%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) AWS CDK
2 4 (7.14%) SailPoint
3 3 (5.36%) OAuth
4 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.57%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.36%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 27 (48.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (44.64%) CI/CD
4 19 (33.93%) DevOps
5 14 (25.00%) Migration
6 12 (21.43%) DevSecOps
6 12 (21.43%) Threat Detection
7 11 (19.64%) Incident Response
8 10 (17.86%) Security Architecture
9 9 (16.07%) Roadmaps
10 8 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
10 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
11 7 (12.50%) FinOps
11 7 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
11 7 (12.50%) Observability
11 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (12.50%) Runbook
12 6 (10.71%) RBAC
12 6 (10.71%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.29%) Python
2 5 (8.93%) Go
3 3 (5.36%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.79%) Bash
5 1 (1.79%) C
5 1 (1.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (35.71%) AWS Certification
2 20 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.14%) CISSP
5 2 (3.57%) Degree
6 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.79%) CCSP
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CISM
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (33.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (23.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (17.86%) NCSC
4 9 (16.07%) NIST
5 7 (12.50%) GDPR
6 5 (8.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (7.14%) PCI DSS
7 4 (7.14%) SOC 2
8 2 (3.57%) GRC
8 2 (3.57%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.79%) IASME
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (62.50%) Terraform
2 12 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.50%) Grafana
3 7 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.79%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) CloudEndure
1 8 (14.29%) Tenable
2 7 (12.50%) Citrix
3 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.14%) Splunk
5 2 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.79%) Intel
6 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.79%) Qualys
6 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow