AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in Central London

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 131 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.13% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £421 -
25th Percentile £463 £423 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% - -
75th Percentile £563 £591 -
90th Percentile £608 £657 -
London median daily rate £525 £495 £475
% change year-on-year +6.06% +4.21% -5.00%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 837 912 1,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.21% 39.43% 40.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 599 786
10th Percentile £325 £385 £351
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £755
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile £18.87 - -
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £38.88 - £38.00
90th Percentile £41.94 £69.50 £53.75
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +22.95%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS KMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS in Central London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS KMS in Central London

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
City of London -5 2 £475 +4.40% 3
AWS KMS
London

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix