Amazon GuardDuty Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon GuardDuty
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon GuardDuty skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon GuardDuty over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 440 593
Rank change year-on-year +112 +153 -116
Contract jobs citing Amazon GuardDuty 13 17 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.088% 0.071% 0.068%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 27
10th Percentile £512 £500 £504
25th Percentile £525 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +10.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £681
90th Percentile £604 £735 £735
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Amazon GuardDuty falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Amazon GuardDuty
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon GuardDuty as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon GuardDuty trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon GuardDuty
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon GuardDuty.

Amazon GuardDuty daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon GuardDuty
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Azure
3 10 (76.92%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (76.92%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (76.92%) Entra ID
3 10 (76.92%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (30.77%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (30.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
6 1 (7.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Specialist
1 5 (38.46%) Azure Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.69%) AWS SAM
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Cloud Operations
2 9 (69.23%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (69.23%) Cost Control
3 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) Planning and Forecasting
4 4 (30.77%) Supplier Management
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) SIEM
7 1 (7.69%) Analytics
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Fintech
7 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.69%) Software Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Go
2 1 (7.69%) Groovy
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) AWS Certification
1 9 (69.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle
2 9 (69.23%) Microsoft