AWS KMS Contracts in England

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring AWS KMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS KMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 525 604
Rank change year-on-year +78 +79 +101
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 38 17 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.046% 0.097%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 38
10th Percentile £358 £456 £453
25th Percentile £409 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +2.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £547 £647 £600
90th Percentile £600 £715 £680
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -21.15%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS KMS in England

AWS KMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS KMS in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS KMS in England

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS KMS in England

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +48 21 £525 -4.55% 10
Midlands - 6 £500 -
West Midlands - 6 £500 -
South East - 4 £500 - 4
North West +19 3 £358 - 4
North of England +17 3 £358 -22.59% 4
East of England - 2 £525 -
AWS KMS
UK

AWS KMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (10.53%) Apache
1 4 (10.53%) nginx
1 4 (10.53%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (60.53%) Amazon S3
3 21 (55.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (42.11%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (34.21%) Serverless
6 10 (26.32%) Route 53
7 9 (23.68%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (18.42%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (15.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 6 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (13.16%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (10.53%) Azure
13 2 (5.26%) IaaS
13 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
13 2 (5.26%) PaaS
13 2 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) SSL
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) IPsec
2 2 (5.26%) Kerberos
2 2 (5.26%) Network Security
2 2 (5.26%) VPN
2 2 (5.26%) X.509
3 1 (2.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (36.84%) DynamoDB
2 11 (28.95%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
3 7 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 3 (7.89%) RDBMS
5 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.63%) MySQL
7 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 7 (18.42%) GitLab
2 7 (18.42%) JUnit
2 7 (18.42%) Mockito
3 6 (15.79%) Maven
4 5 (13.16%) SonarQube
5 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (10.53%) DbUnit
5 4 (10.53%) Git
5 4 (10.53%) jMock
General
1 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.26%) Finance
2 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 10 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (21.05%) Architect
5 7 (18.42%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (18.42%) Java Developer
6 6 (15.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (13.16%) AWS Developer
7 5 (13.16%) Senior
7 5 (13.16%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (10.53%) Technical Architect
9 3 (7.89%) Lead
9 3 (7.89%) Lead Developer
9 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) AWS Security Architect
10 2 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Web Services
2 9 (23.68%) Node.js
2 9 (23.68%) REST
2 9 (23.68%) Spring
2 9 (23.68%) Spring Boot
3 7 (18.42%) Hibernate
4 6 (15.79%) OAuth
5 5 (13.16%) boto
5 5 (13.16%) React
6 4 (10.53%) .NET
6 4 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (10.53%) AngularJS
6 4 (10.53%) Bootstrap
6 4 (10.53%) JPA
6 4 (10.53%) PowerMock
6 4 (10.53%) RESTful
6 4 (10.53%) SOAP
6 4 (10.53%) Spring Batch
6 4 (10.53%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (10.53%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) PKI
2 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.63%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (76.32%) DevOps
2 25 (65.79%) CI/CD
3 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (34.21%) Microservices
5 11 (28.95%) Secrets Management
6 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
7 9 (23.68%) Agile
7 9 (23.68%) TDD
8 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (18.42%) BDD
9 7 (18.42%) Cloud Security
9 7 (18.42%) Kanban
9 7 (18.42%) Scrum
9 7 (18.42%) Static Code Analysis
10 6 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (15.79%) Decision-Making
10 6 (15.79%) Key Management
11 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (13.16%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 10 (26.32%) SQL
3 9 (23.68%) Java
4 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.26%) Bash
5 2 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (36.84%) AWS Certification
2 14 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) Degree
4 5 (13.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.53%) NIST
2 2 (5.26%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (5.26%) NIST 800
2 2 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Docker
2 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.53%) Postfix
4 2 (5.26%) RACF
5 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (60.53%) Terraform
2 12 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 8 (21.05%) Grafana
4 6 (15.79%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.53%) Ansible
5 4 (10.53%) Kibana
6 3 (7.89%) Argo
6 3 (7.89%) Packer
6 3 (7.89%) Puppet
7 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.63%) Cilium
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Splunk
2 4 (10.53%) AppDynamics
2 4 (10.53%) Atlassian
2 4 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (7.89%) Thales
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Black Duck
5 1 (2.63%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.63%) Tenable