AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 122 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.15% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 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 £488 £591 -
90th Percentile - £657 -
Central London median daily rate £475 £455 -
% change year-on-year +4.40% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 763 773 978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 39.04% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 493 706
10th Percentile £331 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £752 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +309.64% +3.75%
75th Percentile £41.94 £92.50 £40.69
90th Percentile £45.28 - £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS KMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Security Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform