Amazon GuardDuty
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon GuardDuty skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 896 902 1156
Rank change year-on-year +6 +254 -299
Permanent jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 18 62 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.060% 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.051% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16 17 25
10th Percentile - £58,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +29.17% -22.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £97,500 £102,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.36% +33.81% -39.13%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon GuardDuty is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,320 44,215 75,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.85% 42.74% 48.20%
Number of salaries quoted 26,705 29,050 41,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,988 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,600 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Top 12 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 5 May 2024. 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 +61 17 £70,000 -17.65% 16
UK excluding London -6 15 £70,000 -0.36% 14
Work from Home +64 8 £70,000 -17.65% 12
West Midlands +25 6 £72,500 +20.83% 8
Midlands +22 6 £72,500 +20.83% 8
North of England +47 5 £60,000 - 2
North West - 4 £60,000 - 2
London +81 3 £70,000 -17.65% 4
South East +27 2 £85,000 -
Yorkshire +83 1 £62,500 -
South West -28 1 £65,000 -7.80% 2
Scotland -65 1 - - 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Moodle
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (72.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 13 (72.22%) AWS CloudTrail
3 9 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 8 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (38.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (38.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (33.33%) Serverless
7 3 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (16.67%) Route 53
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (5.56%) OCI
9 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
9 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Burp Suite
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) Metasploit
1 2 (11.11%) sqlmap
2 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Java Technical Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth
1 2 (11.11%) OpenID
1 2 (11.11%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
2 1 (5.56%) XML
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) PropTech
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (55.56%) Incident Response
3 7 (38.89%) Information Security
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
5 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (27.78%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (22.22%) Data Privacy
6 4 (22.22%) Fintech
6 4 (22.22%) ITIL
6 4 (22.22%) ITSM
6 4 (22.22%) PRINCE2
6 4 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (22.22%) Service Management
7 3 (16.67%) Open Source
7 3 (16.67%) SIEM
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Bash
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Groovy
5 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (27.78%) NIST
3 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
5 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (5.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (5.56%) NCSC
5 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
3 1 (5.56%) Kibana
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Wallstreet Suite