Amazon GuardDuty Jobs

Amazon GuardDuty
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon GuardDuty skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 888 897
Rank change year-on-year +200 +9 +280
Permanent jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 21 24 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.023% 0.067%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.067% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 21
10th Percentile £75,750 £57,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £61,563 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -14.71% +54.55%
75th Percentile £97,500 £73,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £75,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% +23.81%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,281 35,941 42,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.80% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,069 26,912 27,490
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,225 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Top 7 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +154 19 £82,500 +13.79% 24
London +127 16 £82,500 +17.86% 12
Work from Home +118 8 £86,250 +18.97% 4
UK excluding London +180 7 - - 18
South East +91 4 - - 14
Midlands +77 4 - -
West Midlands +49 4 - -

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:

Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (66.67%) Serverless
3 13 (61.90%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (57.14%) Amazon S3
4 12 (57.14%) AWS KMS
5 11 (52.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (38.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (38.10%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (23.81%) Azure
10 4 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (19.05%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (19.05%) GCP
11 3 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
11 3 (14.29%) Amazon Macie
12 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) Firewall
2 8 (38.10%) SSL
3 2 (9.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 7 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (14.29%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Banking
2 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Senior
2 8 (38.10%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) AWS CDK
1 4 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.52%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 4 (19.05%) Unix
4 3 (14.29%) VMS
4 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 9 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (38.10%) SIEM
5 7 (33.33%) Capacity Management
5 7 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 7 (33.33%) Key Management
5 7 (33.33%) Patch Management
6 6 (28.57%) Observability
7 5 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (19.05%) High Availability
9 3 (14.29%) Application Security
9 3 (14.29%) Security Architecture
9 3 (14.29%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Bash
3 7 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 6 (28.57%) Go
5 4 (19.05%) Java
5 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 3 (14.29%) Groovy
6 3 (14.29%) Perl
6 3 (14.29%) Ruby
7 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
2 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (76.19%) Terraform
2 11 (52.38%) Ansible
3 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 7 (33.33%) Grafana
4 7 (33.33%) Nessus
4 7 (33.33%) Proxmox
5 3 (14.29%) Nagios
6 1 (4.76%) Argo
6 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Qualys
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) Tenable