AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in the South East

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 167 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.092% 0.053% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £488 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +0.52% +2.11% -5.00%

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 1,355 1,174 1,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.01% 31.28% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 797 1,019
10th Percentile £213 £261 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 17 34
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.10 £17.47
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £19.81
Median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%
75th Percentile £48.75 £43.75 £53.21
90th Percentile £92.30 £64.73 £77.44
England median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS KMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS KMS

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 19 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
Berkshire - 4 £600 -
Thames Valley - 4 £600 -
AWS KMS
England

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) FinOps
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Runbook
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) CloudEndure