Amazon GuardDuty Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon GuardDuty
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Amazon GuardDuty skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 442 594
Rank change year-on-year +110 +152 -163
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 14 29 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.11% 0.058%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.29% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 23
10th Percentile £512 £500 £520
25th Percentile £525 £503 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £630
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -0.79% +14.55%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £688
90th Percentile £602 £775 £745
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £630
% change year-on-year - -8.73% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Amazon GuardDuty is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,502 10,118 18,500
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.12% 39.53% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,950 7,445 13,815
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £426 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 127 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.82 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +96.36% -28.35%
75th Percentile £46.88 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.40 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%

Amazon GuardDuty
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon GuardDuty as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon GuardDuty trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Amazon GuardDuty daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Azure
3 10 (71.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (71.43%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (71.43%) Entra ID
3 10 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (28.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (21.43%) Serverless
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (14.29%) GCP
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
7 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 1 (7.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.14%) InfluxDB
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Specialist
1 5 (35.71%) Azure Specialist
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AWS SAM
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Operations
2 9 (64.29%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (64.29%) Cost Control
3 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Planning and Forecasting
4 4 (28.57%) Supplier Management
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) SIEM
6 2 (14.29%) Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 2 (14.29%) Data Management
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Bash
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Go
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) AWS Certification
1 9 (64.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft