AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 65 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.27% 0.55% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% 1.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £531 £320 -
25th Percentile £541 £335 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.61% - -
75th Percentile £603 - -
90th Percentile £609 - -
North West median daily rate £575 £358 £325
% change year-on-year +60.61% +10.15% -40.91%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

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 in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 217 162 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.64% 29.83% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 136 128
10th Percentile £350 £312 £311
25th Percentile £413 £358 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £414 £453
Median % change year-on-year +16.74% -8.56% -10.75%
75th Percentile £615 £492 £541
90th Percentile £653 £578 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £457 £475
% change year-on-year +9.35% -3.74% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £16.20 - £17.53
25th Percentile £16.59 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £12.82 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +36.51% -27.65% -21.14%
75th Percentile £17.77 - £43.75
90th Percentile £17.79 - -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £34.67 £16.06
% change year-on-year +80.27% +115.88% -27.67%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS KMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in Cheshire

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 June 2026. 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
Knutsford -4 2 £575 +60.61% 1
AWS KMS
North West

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS