AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in Manchester

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 - 79
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.35% - 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% - 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £461 - £324
25th Percentile £501 - £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.55%
75th Percentile £595 - £441
90th Percentile £600 - £461
North West median daily rate £600 - £388
% change year-on-year - - -29.55%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 757 379 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 38.39% 38.17% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 284 260
10th Percentile £363 £325 £356
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £611 £576 £575
90th Percentile £725 £648 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 7 5
10th Percentile £28.50 £17.92 £40.90
25th Percentile £37.50 £31.56 £58.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £49.00 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.04% -26.32% +241.03%
75th Percentile £77.00 £66.88 £71.50
90th Percentile £77.18 £82.25 £73.30
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £18.87 £41.09
% change year-on-year +217.97% -54.08% +17.40%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS KMS in Manchester

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Gatling
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Key Management
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) SFIA
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Argo
2 1 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Tanium
1 1 (14.29%) Tenable
1 1 (14.29%) Trend Micro