Amazon GuardDuty Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon GuardDuty
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 331 449
Rank change year-on-year +37 +118 +157
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 10 14 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.091% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 22
10th Percentile £511 £512 £500
25th Percentile £540 £525 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -13.73% +1.19%
75th Percentile £606 £594 £688
90th Percentile £643 £602 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £581
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.08% -7.74%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon GuardDuty
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon GuardDuty as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon GuardDuty trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Amazon GuardDuty daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Amazon GuardDuty daily rate histogram 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (50.00%) Serverless
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (40.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (40.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 4 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (40.00%) Route 53
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
7 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (10.00%) GCP
7 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (20.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (30.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Kanban
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
5 2 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) Go
3 3 (30.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Grafana
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) Kibana
3 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Imperva
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys
2 1 (10.00%) Tenable