AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% - 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £401 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.64%
75th Percentile £402 - £538
90th Percentile £402 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 592 589 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.68% 34.24% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 362 528
10th Percentile £315 £269 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £477
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.71% +0.47%
75th Percentile £575 £529 £575
90th Percentile £625 £614 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.31 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £19.97 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.00 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +38.81% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.32 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Glasgow - 2 £401 - 2
AWS KMS
UK

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft