AWS KMS Contracts

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring AWS KMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS KMS 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 562 632 762
Rank change year-on-year +70 +130 -72
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 22 65 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.12% 0.099%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.32% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 48 51
10th Percentile - £463 £480
25th Percentile £456 £495 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £738
90th Percentile £919 £665 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -15.91% +2.33% +38.71%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS KMS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS KMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS KMS.

Daily rate trend for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS KMS within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +49 17 £600 +9.09% 4
London +50 11 £625 +19.05% 3
Work from Home +87 9 £500 -16.67% 2
UK excluding London +18 6 £463 -15.91% 1
North of England +15 5 £463 -16.01%
Yorkshire +13 4 £463 -16.11%
Scotland +47 1 - -
North West +14 1 - -

AWS KMS
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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (68.18%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (63.64%) Amazon S3
4 13 (59.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (54.55%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (40.91%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (40.91%) AWS CloudTrail
7 8 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (27.27%) Serverless
9 5 (22.73%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (18.18%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (18.18%) Route 53
10 4 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (13.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Kerberos
1 5 (22.73%) SSL
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
3 2 (9.09%) SMS
4 1 (4.55%) DNS
4 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.55%) LAN
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon QuickSight
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
3 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) Git
3 4 (18.18%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) Mocha
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) AWS Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Kafka
2 3 (13.64%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (13.64%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 2 (9.09%) Next.js
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (9.09%) OAuth
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) SAML
4 1 (4.55%) Web Services
4 1 (4.55%) XML
4 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.09%) PKI
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (22.73%) Unix
4 4 (18.18%) CentOS
5 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.55%) Windows
5 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 4 (18.18%) Migration
4 4 (18.18%) Presales
4 4 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (13.64%) Fintech
5 3 (13.64%) GitOps
5 3 (13.64%) Secrets Management
5 3 (13.64%) SIEM
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps
6 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) PCI DSS
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Terraform
2 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 9 (40.91%) Packer
4 6 (27.27%) Ansible
4 6 (27.27%) Grafana
5 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
6 4 (18.18%) Puppet
6 4 (18.18%) Rancher
7 2 (9.09%) Argo
8 1 (4.55%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Confluent
2 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) CA
4 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk