AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in Leeds

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 60 73
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +38
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.43% 0.15% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 0.34% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 330 297 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.81% 45.55% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 209 255
10th Percentile £345 £346 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £661
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -55.65% +188.37%
75th Percentile £28.75 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in Leeds

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing AWS KMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) FinOps
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Discovery
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk