AWS KMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for AWS KMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS KMS over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 426 484
Rank change year-on-year +42 +58 -65
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 6 17 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.073% 0.076%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 13
10th Percentile - - £461
25th Percentile £456 £453 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% +36.67%
75th Percentile £469 £525 £619
90th Percentile - £575 £645
UK median daily rate £488 £538 £650
% change year-on-year -9.30% -17.31% +32.65%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

AWS KMS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,290 7,758 9,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.83% 33.20% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,756 5,727 7,230
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 232 292
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.71 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.18% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.63 £31.69
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS KMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS KMS in the UK excluding London

AWS KMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS KMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS KMS in the UK excluding London

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England +34 5 £463 -17.78%
Yorkshire +19 4 £463 -19.57%
North West +15 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
AWS KMS
UK

AWS KMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) Route 53
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) CentOS
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Key Management
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Packer
2 4 (66.67%) Puppet
2 4 (66.67%) Rancher
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CA
1 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow