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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 334 439
Rank change year-on-year +28 +105 +146
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 7 13 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.088% 0.067%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.24% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 13
10th Percentile - £512 £502
25th Percentile £406 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +15.56%
75th Percentile £638 £600 -
90th Percentile £645 £604 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £594
% change year-on-year -6.67% -5.26% -1.04%

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 4,000 5,427 9,398
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.91% 36.72% 39.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,846 3,903 6,994
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 88 132
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.19 £17.43 £21.31
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -45.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.06 £69.63
90th Percentile £92.50 £72.06 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -37.14% +59.09%

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 20 June 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) SSL
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Secrets Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (14.29%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Kustomize
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Qualys
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk
1 1 (14.29%) Tenable