AWS KMS Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for AWS KMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS KMS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 421 565
Rank change year-on-year +89 +144 -90
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 9 34 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.35% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 30 35
10th Percentile £400 - £473
25th Percentile £463 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £744
90th Percentile £655 £655 £775
UK median daily rate £488 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -11.36% -15.38% +31.31%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

AWS KMS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,382 9,801 18,399
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.55% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 7,278 13,752
10th Percentile £350 £372 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £744 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 130 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +2.07%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

AWS KMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS KMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS KMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing AWS KMS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (77.78%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (66.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 6 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (66.67%) Serverless
5 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
6 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (44.44%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (22.22%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
2 2 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) SAML
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Presales
2 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
3 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) GitOps
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Packer
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Confluent
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat