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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 510 535
Rank change year-on-year -143 +25 +60
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 35 46 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.14% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.36% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 13
10th Percentile £431 £413 £507
25th Percentile £454 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% -8.09% -1.09%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £735 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.50% -4.76% -

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 19,177 12,735 13,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.39% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,727 8,519 8,599
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 646 288 181
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.80 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -44.94% +55.49%

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 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Top 8 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 14 October 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
England -133 25 £520 +4.00% 32
London -106 21 £488 -2.50% 21
Work from Home -77 13 £545 +9.00% 13
UK excluding London -109 6 £533 +6.50% 10
South East - 3 £533 - 4
Scotland -22 2 £550 - 2
Yorkshire -37 1 £520 - 1
North of England -76 1 £520 +4.00% 4

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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (71.43%) AWS CloudTrail
3 24 (68.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 17 (48.57%) Serverless
5 16 (45.71%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (40.00%) GitHub
7 12 (34.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (25.71%) GCP
8 9 (25.71%) Route 53
9 8 (22.86%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (22.86%) Amazon S3
10 7 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
11 6 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (17.14%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (14.29%) AWS KMS
13 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (8.57%) AWS Direct Connect
14 3 (8.57%) Datadog
14 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) VPN
3 2 (5.71%) Network Security
4 1 (2.86%) BGP
4 1 (2.86%) DNS
4 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (37.14%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (22.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (22.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.86%) Metadata
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Local Government
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Architect
1 12 (34.29%) AWS Architect
2 8 (22.86%) Technical Architect
3 7 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Security Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Expert
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Security Architect
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Solution Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Security Assurance Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) Terraform
2 7 (20.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 7 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 7 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.86%) Node.js
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Security Posture
2 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) NHS
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 17 (48.57%) Cloud Security
2 17 (48.57%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (34.29%) DevOps
4 11 (31.43%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (28.57%) Microservices
6 9 (25.71%) DevSecOps
6 9 (25.71%) SIEM
7 8 (22.86%) Data Integration
7 8 (22.86%) Data Protection
7 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (22.86%) Technical Debt
7 8 (22.86%) Threat Management
7 8 (22.86%) Vulnerability Management
8 7 (20.00%) API Design
8 7 (20.00%) Design Patterns
8 7 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
8 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 6 (17.14%) AI
10 5 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) Python
1 8 (22.86%) TypeScript
2 5 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) NCSC
2 2 (5.71%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (25.71%) Grafana
3 8 (22.86%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.43%) Ansible
5 1 (2.86%) CloudForms
5 1 (2.86%) Podman
5 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
2 1 (2.86%) Citrix
2 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.86%) Google
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Okta
2 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
2 1 (2.86%) Qualys
2 1 (2.86%) Splunk
2 1 (2.86%) Tenable