AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 65 82
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 +41
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.34% 0.13% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 0.30% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -9.52%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 331 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.28% 42.93% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 224 297
10th Percentile £309 £336 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £546 £556 £600
90th Percentile £628 £654 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.09 -
25th Percentile £69.69 £19.28 -
Median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £182.88 - -
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 West Yorkshire

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Leeds -14 3 £550 - 1
AWS KMS
Yorkshire

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) FinOps
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Discovery
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk