AWS KMS Contracts in the South East

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring AWS KMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS KMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 4 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% - 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £452
25th Percentile - - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £455
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.33%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £505 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.46% +2.50% -23.08%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing AWS KMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for AWS KMS in the South East

AWS KMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS KMS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AWS KMS in the South East

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire - 3 - - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £500 -
Berkshire - 1 £500 -
AWS KMS
England

AWS KMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (25.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) jMock
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) PowerMock
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Identity
1 3 (75.00%) Key Management
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Thales
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft