AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS KMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS KMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 891 1173
Rank change year-on-year +23 +282 -306
Permanent jobs citing AWS KMS 28 79 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.075% 0.038%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.080% 0.18% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 26 27 35
10th Percentile £49,424 £77,500 £58,000
25th Percentile £57,597 £92,500 £67,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.22% +5.26% +31.03%
75th Percentile £67,968 - £105,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £130,000 £115,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £87,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -28.25% +6.06% +26.92%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS KMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS KMS.

Salary trend for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS KMS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +62 28 £62,783 -37.22% 5
Work from Home +85 18 £62,783 -37.22% 3
UK excluding London +26 17 £62,783 -28.25% 1
North of England - 12 £62,783 -
London +66 11 £65,000 -35.00% 4
North West - 7 £62,783 -
East of England - 3 £42,500 -
North East - 3 £62,783 -
South East +28 2 £74,500 -14.86%
Yorkshire - 2 £62,783 -

AWS KMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (53.57%) Azure
3 12 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
3 12 (42.86%) Entra ID
4 9 (32.14%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
6 6 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (17.86%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (10.71%) AWS CodeCommit
9 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (10.71%) Loggly
9 3 (10.71%) Rackspace Cloud
10 2 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.57%) DocumentDB
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) Git
3 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 3 (10.71%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.14%) Selenium
6 1 (3.57%) DbUnit
6 1 (3.57%) jMock
6 1 (3.57%) JUnit
6 1 (3.57%) Maven
6 1 (3.57%) Mocha
6 1 (3.57%) Mockito
6 1 (3.57%) Postman
6 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.57%) TestNG
General
1 14 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 12 (42.86%) Security Engineer
1 12 (42.86%) Senior
1 12 (42.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 12 (42.86%) Senior Security Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Development Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Manager
6 1 (3.57%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Lambda Expressions
1 6 (21.43%) Node.js
2 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 4 (14.29%) Kafka
2 4 (14.29%) React
2 4 (14.29%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
3 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
3 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (10.71%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.14%) Web Services
5 1 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (3.57%) Celery
5 1 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.57%) PowerMock
5 1 (3.57%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
1 12 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
1 12 (42.86%) PKI
1 12 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) DevOps
2 17 (60.71%) Secrets Management
3 12 (42.86%) Coaching
3 12 (42.86%) Identity Management
3 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (42.86%) Key Management
3 12 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 12 (42.86%) Privileged Identity Management
4 11 (39.29%) Agile
5 6 (21.43%) Clean Code
6 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.86%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.71%) Integration Patterns
8 3 (10.71%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (10.71%) Pair Programming
8 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
3 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.29%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Python
6 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) CA Single Sign-On
1 12 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 1 (3.57%) Consul
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) CA
1 12 (42.86%) CyberArk
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 12 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 3 (10.71%) Atlassian
2 3 (10.71%) New Relic
2 3 (10.71%) Rackspace
2 3 (10.71%) SolarWinds