AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in the North West

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 171 123 133
Rank change year-on-year -48 +10 +20
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.085% 0.15% 0.072%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.45% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £531 £320 -
25th Percentile £541 £335 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £358 £325
Median % change year-on-year +60.61% +10.15% -40.91%
75th Percentile £603 - £338
90th Percentile £609 - -
England median daily rate £525 £475 £545
% change year-on-year +10.53% -12.84% -0.91%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,091 663 894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.09% 32.55% 32.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 504 633
10th Percentile £316 £313 £284
25th Percentile £400 £397 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -3.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £545 £575
90th Percentile £676 £638 £650
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 20 60
10th Percentile £21.70 £12.82 £15.25
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.36 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +80.27% +115.88% -27.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £54.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.54
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -31.89%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS KMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Cheshire -5 2 £575 +60.61% 1
Manchester - 1 - -
AWS KMS
England

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
1 2 (66.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SABSA
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Packer
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Tanium
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable
1 1 (33.33%) Trend Micro