AWS KMS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 294 338 446
Rank change year-on-year +44 +108 +133
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 10 7 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.046% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.13% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 27
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £519 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £650
90th Percentile £583 £683 £760
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -21.15%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS KMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS KMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS KMS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS KMS.

AWS KMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS KMS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS KMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS KMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (40.00%) Route 53
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (30.00%) IaaS
4 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) SSL
2 3 (30.00%) IPsec
2 3 (30.00%) Kerberos
3 2 (20.00%) X.509
4 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cryptography Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (30.00%) OpenID
2 3 (30.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) SAML
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 3 (30.00%) XACML
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (10.00%) boto
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (30.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) CentOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) BPEL
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) SOA
4 3 (30.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CISM
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (20.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
1 3 (30.00%) RACF
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Packer
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) Grafana
3 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Black Duck
2 1 (10.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (10.00%) Gemalto
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Tenable
2 1 (10.00%) Thales