Amazon GuardDuty Contracts

Amazon GuardDuty
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon GuardDuty skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 660 799
Rank change year-on-year +95 +139 -194
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 26 58 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.098% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 38 42
10th Percentile £504 £500 £525
25th Percentile £525 £510 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £581 £630
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -7.74% +20.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £688
90th Percentile £638 £758 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +20.00%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon GuardDuty in the UK

Amazon GuardDuty
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +115 14 £550 -12.00% 12
London +103 14 £575 -4.96% 4
England +94 14 £575 -2.13% 15
UK excluding London +51 10 £563 +2.27% 13
Scotland +41 10 £563 +7.14% 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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (57.69%) Azure
3 13 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 10 (38.46%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (38.46%) Entra ID
4 10 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudTrail
6 6 (23.08%) AWS Control Tower
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (15.38%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (15.38%) GitHub
8 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (11.54%) Serverless
10 2 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) AWS Specialist
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Specialist
5 4 (15.38%) Cloud Specialist
6 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (11.54%) Security Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Security Manager
7 2 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior
7 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Security Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Lead
8 1 (3.85%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) AWS SAM
1 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Unix
3 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Operations
2 9 (34.62%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (34.62%) Cost Control
2 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (30.77%) DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 5 (19.23%) Incident Response
5 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 5 (19.23%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (15.38%) Planning and Forecasting
6 4 (15.38%) Security Operations
6 4 (15.38%) SIEM
6 4 (15.38%) Supplier Management
7 3 (11.54%) Observability
7 3 (11.54%) Privileged Access Management
7 3 (11.54%) SDLC
7 3 (11.54%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Go
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) AWS Certification
1 9 (34.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 9 (34.62%) Azure Certification
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.54%) NIST
3 2 (7.69%) NCSC
3 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.54%) Ansible
3 3 (11.54%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Qualys
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk