Hybrid/Remote AWS KMS Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 321 364
Rank change year-on-year +33 +43 +158
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 20 4 9
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.20% 0.034% 0.052%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.088% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 9
10th Percentile £415 £346 £473
25th Percentile £463 £397 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £496 £538
90th Percentile £632 £499 £540
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -5.00%

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 4,357 4,566 6,617
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.86% 38.77% 38.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,961 3,067 4,791
10th Percentile £330 £329 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £732 £750 £717
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 49 81
10th Percentile £17.88 £20.86 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.11% +35.71%
75th Percentile £65.69 £64.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.34 £81.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS KMS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS KMS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS KMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS KMS over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

AWS KMS daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (60.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 12 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 12 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 5 (25.00%) Serverless
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (15.00%) GCP
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (10.00%) Datadog
7 2 (10.00%) GitHub
7 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) FTP
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) IMAP
2 1 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (5.00%) SMTP
2 1 (5.00%) SSH
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) OLAP
3 1 (5.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) GitLab
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Liquibase
4 1 (5.00%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
1 8 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) AWS Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Security Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Express.js
3 1 (5.00%) LDAP
3 1 (5.00%) Next.js
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (50.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Observability
5 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) TDD
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) Refactoring
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Go
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Groovy
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL Certification
5 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) NCSC
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) DFS Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Dovecot
3 1 (5.00%) Postfix
3 1 (5.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Grafana
3 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Ansible
5 1 (5.00%) Nessus
5 1 (5.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Citrix
2 2 (10.00%) CloudEndure
3 1 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (5.00%) Percona
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk