Amazon GuardDuty Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon GuardDuty skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 531 563
Rank change year-on-year +29 +32 +192
Permanent jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 7 35 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.097% 0.029%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.051% 0.30% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 6
10th Percentile - - £54,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,309 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -17.86% -20.97%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,904 £79,688
90th Percentile £78,000 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £50,309 £61,475
% change year-on-year +68.96% -18.16% -20.68%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,614 11,604 12,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.10% 32.30% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,850 6,313 10,415
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon GuardDuty relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Amazon GuardDuty job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK excluding London

Amazon GuardDuty
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -6 5 £47,500 +5.56%
Yorkshire -20 4 £46,250 +2.78%
Midlands +20 1 - -
West Midlands +19 1 - -
North West +17 1 £95,000 +88.83%
South East - 1 - - 2
Amazon GuardDuty
UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) SaaS
4 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
6 1 (14.29%) IaaS
6 1 (14.29%) PaaS
6 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Security Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Security
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
3 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
3 4 (57.14%) SIEM
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
5 2 (28.57%) RBAC
5 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (57.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (42.86%) GDPR
3 3 (42.86%) NIST
4 2 (28.57%) GRC
4 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Okta