AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 11 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.61% - 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.72% - 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £550
75th Percentile £537 - £551
90th Percentile £538 - £551
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -9.52%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 233 140 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 34.11% 30.37% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 90 109
10th Percentile £304 £400 £400
25th Percentile £384 £482 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.47% +7.82%
75th Percentile £538 £609 £625
90th Percentile £639 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Sheffield - 9 £513 - 1
AWS KMS
Yorkshire

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) GCP
3 8 (72.73%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (18.18%) Datadog
5 2 (18.18%) Pulumi
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (54.55%) NoSQL
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) GitLab
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
1 8 (72.73%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Financial Institution
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (18.18%) GCP Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (54.55%) REST
1 6 (54.55%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (72.73%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (72.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
3 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
3 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
4 7 (63.64%) Change Management
5 6 (54.55%) Agile
5 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (54.55%) Cryptography
5 6 (54.55%) High Availability
5 6 (54.55%) Microservices
5 6 (54.55%) Non-Functional Testing
5 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (45.45%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (45.45%) Data Encryption
6 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
7 2 (18.18%) TDD
8 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Go
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
2 6 (54.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 6 (54.55%) Ansible
2 6 (54.55%) Grafana
2 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Splunk