AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 657 758
Rank change year-on-year +78 +101 -120
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 19 62 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.28% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 46 57
10th Percentile £456 £453 £473
25th Percentile £459 £467 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -21.15% +32.65%
75th Percentile £631 £644 £750
90th Percentile £708 £775 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +35.48%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

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 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Top 7 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 27 April 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 +96 17 £513 +2.50% 5
London +74 11 £550 +10.00% 4
Work from Home +107 7 £500 -16.67% 3
UK excluding London +50 5 £463 -7.50% 1
North of England +33 5 £463 -17.78%
Yorkshire +22 4 £463 -19.57%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (47.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (47.37%) Amazon S3
4 7 (36.84%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (36.84%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (36.84%) AWS CloudTrail
5 6 (31.58%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (31.58%) Serverless
5 6 (31.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (21.05%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (21.05%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (21.05%) Route 53
8 3 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (15.79%) Azure
9 2 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (10.53%) SMS
3 1 (5.26%) DNS
3 1 (5.26%) LAN
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) SSL
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (26.32%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) GitLab
3 3 (15.79%) Git
4 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
4 2 (10.53%) Mocha
4 2 (10.53%) Selenium
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Developer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Backend Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Lambda Expressions
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) Node.js
2 3 (15.79%) OAuth
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
3 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
3 2 (10.53%) Next.js
3 2 (10.53%) Web Services
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.26%) React
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) SAML
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) XML
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) PKI
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) CentOS
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
4 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) Secrets Management
4 4 (21.05%) SIEM
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (10.53%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
6 2 (10.53%) Key Management
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.53%) NIST
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Terraform
2 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Packer
3 4 (21.05%) Puppet
3 4 (21.05%) Rancher
4 2 (10.53%) Grafana
5 1 (5.26%) Ansible
5 1 (5.26%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.26%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) CA
2 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Trend Micro