Amazon GuardDuty Contracts

Amazon GuardDuty
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon GuardDuty skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 555 650
Rank change year-on-year +62 +95 +135
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 25 27 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.063% 0.092%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.23% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 33
10th Percentile £479 £504 -
25th Percentile £513 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £650
90th Percentile £670 £638 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -5.78% +7.14% -4.55%

All Cloud 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 11,044 13,936 21,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.49% 32.41% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,632 9,908 15,402
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 345 346
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -38.94% +55.90%
75th Percentile £46.30 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £64.45 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £17.71 £24.62
% change year-on-year +20.81% -28.09% +23.10%

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon GuardDuty as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Daily rate trend for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Top 8 Contract 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 11 May 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 +82 15 £550 -4.35% 20
UK excluding London +54 11 £530 -5.78% 10
London +32 11 £563 -2.17% 14
Work from Home +42 10 £560 +1.82% 10
Scotland +5 7 £528 -6.22%
North West - 2 £500 - 1
South West - 2 £588 -
North of England - 2 £500 - 5

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (68.00%) Serverless
3 15 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (52.00%) Amazon S3
5 12 (48.00%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (48.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (32.00%) OpenShift
8 7 (28.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 7 (28.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 7 (28.00%) AWS KMS
8 7 (28.00%) Route 53
9 6 (24.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 6 (24.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (24.00%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (20.00%) PaaS
10 5 (20.00%) SaaS
10 5 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.00%) VPN
3 3 (12.00%) DNS
3 3 (12.00%) Network Security
3 3 (12.00%) SSL
4 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (12.00%) InfluxDB
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Git
3 4 (16.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (8.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Security Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Architect
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Architect
6 3 (12.00%) Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Security Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Security Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Security Technical Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (12.00%) Node.js
2 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (12.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) Loki
3 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (48.00%) Cloud Security
2 12 (48.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (36.00%) Agile
4 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (28.00%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Kanban
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.00%) SIEM
6 5 (20.00%) Software Delivery
6 5 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
7 4 (16.00%) Microservices
7 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (12.00%) Observability
8 3 (12.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) Python
2 15 (60.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) Groovy
4 3 (12.00%) Go
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Degree
6 1 (4.00%) OCP
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) NIST
2 3 (12.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Grafana
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.00%) Kibana
5 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Imperva
1 3 (12.00%) Qualys
1 3 (12.00%) Tenable
2 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk