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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 708 862 898
Rank change year-on-year +154 +36 +270
Permanent jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 21 21 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.021% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.059% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 19
10th Percentile £64,500 £57,500 £59,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £59,375 £63,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.97% -14.71% +41.67%
75th Percentile £108,125 £74,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,375 £76,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £72,500 £70,250
% change year-on-year -37.93% +3.20% +33.81%

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 15,581 35,410 42,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.82% 35.48% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,653 26,672 28,040
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Top 9 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 18 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 +129 19 £88,750 +22.41% 29
London +126 15 £95,000 +35.71% 22
Work from Home +130 10 £95,000 +31.03% 10
UK excluding London +166 8 £45,000 -37.93% 10
South East +93 4 - - 6
Midlands +58 4 - -
West Midlands +42 4 - -
Yorkshire +66 1 £45,000 -28.00% 3
North of England +41 1 £45,000 -25.00% 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
5 11 (52.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (47.62%) AWS KMS
7 8 (38.10%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (38.10%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (28.57%) Azure
10 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (23.81%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (19.05%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (19.05%) GCP
12 3 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
13 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (9.52%) Amazon Macie
13 2 (9.52%) AWS Direct Connect
13 2 (9.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) Firewall
2 8 (38.10%) SSL
3 4 (19.05%) VPN
4 2 (9.52%) WAN
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 1 (4.76%) Banking
1 1 (4.76%) Finance
1 1 (4.76%) Law
1 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (33.33%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 3 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.52%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 3 (14.29%) Unix
3 3 (14.29%) VMS
3 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) Agile
4 9 (42.86%) Cloud Security
5 7 (33.33%) Capacity Management
5 7 (33.33%) Key Management
5 7 (33.33%) Patch Management
6 6 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 6 (28.57%) SIEM
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (23.81%) Security Architecture
8 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (19.05%) Observability
8 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (14.29%) High Availability
9 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (14.29%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 6 (28.57%) Bash
4 4 (19.05%) Go
4 4 (19.05%) Java
5 3 (14.29%) Groovy
5 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (14.29%) Perl
5 3 (14.29%) Ruby
6 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) CCNP
5 2 (9.52%) CISSP
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
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 10 (47.62%) Docker
2 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (71.43%) Terraform
2 10 (47.62%) Ansible
3 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (33.33%) Nessus
3 7 (33.33%) Proxmox
4 5 (23.81%) Grafana
5 3 (14.29%) Nagios
6 1 (4.76%) Argo
6 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Juniper
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Qualys
3 1 (4.76%) Tenable