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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 515 588
Rank change year-on-year +79 +73 +103
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 42 16 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.044% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.14% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 42
10th Percentile £358 - £463
25th Percentile £410 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -17.31%
75th Percentile £544 £663 £644
90th Percentile £595 £868 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -15.38%

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 9,035 11,689 17,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.12% 32.09% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,257 8,437 12,880
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £673
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 325 289
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.04 £15.85 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.25 £21.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% -38.24% +58.14%
75th Percentile £36.38 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.63 £65.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +57.73%

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 19 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 19 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 +58 22 £525 -14.29% 23
Midlands - 6 £500 - 4
West Midlands - 6 £500 - 4
North of England +17 5 £358 -22.59% 8
South East - 4 £500 - 11
North West +16 3 £358 - 4
Yorkshire +11 2 - - 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 (9.52%) Apache
1 4 (9.52%) nginx
1 4 (9.52%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (52.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 22 (52.38%) Amazon S3
3 16 (38.10%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (38.10%) Amazon SQS
4 13 (30.95%) Serverless
5 10 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (23.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 10 (23.81%) Route 53
6 9 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (19.05%) AWS CloudTrail
8 7 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (11.90%) Amazon Macie
11 4 (9.52%) Azure
12 3 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) SSL
2 3 (7.14%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) Network Security
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (4.76%) IPsec
3 2 (4.76%) Kerberos
3 2 (4.76%) X.509
4 1 (2.38%) DNS
4 1 (2.38%) HTTP
4 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 12 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
6 3 (7.14%) RDBMS
6 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.38%) MySQL
8 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.43%) GitLab
3 7 (16.67%) JUnit
3 7 (16.67%) Mockito
4 6 (14.29%) Maven
5 5 (11.90%) Git
5 5 (11.90%) SonarQube
6 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (9.52%) DbUnit
6 4 (9.52%) jMock
General
1 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Law
4 1 (2.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Developer
1 13 (30.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Architect
2 9 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 6 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Lead
5 5 (11.90%) Security Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior
5 5 (11.90%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Technical Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Lead Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Data Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Web Services
2 9 (21.43%) REST
2 9 (21.43%) Spring
2 9 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 8 (19.05%) Node.js
4 7 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 7 (16.67%) OAuth
5 4 (9.52%) .NET
5 4 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.52%) Bootstrap
5 4 (9.52%) boto
5 4 (9.52%) JPA
5 4 (9.52%) PowerMock
5 4 (9.52%) React
5 4 (9.52%) RESTful
5 4 (9.52%) SOAP
5 4 (9.52%) Spring Batch
5 4 (9.52%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (9.52%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 7 (16.67%) PKI
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.43%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) DevOps
2 27 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 18 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (33.33%) Microservices
5 11 (26.19%) Agile
5 11 (26.19%) Cloud Security
5 11 (26.19%) Containerisation
5 11 (26.19%) Secrets Management
6 9 (21.43%) TDD
7 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.67%) BDD
8 7 (16.67%) Kanban
8 7 (16.67%) Key Management
8 7 (16.67%) Scrum
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 6 (14.29%) Security Architecture
9 6 (14.29%) SIEM
9 6 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
10 5 (11.90%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 5 (11.90%) Bash
3 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.76%) Go
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (45.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (38.10%) AWS Certification
4 8 (19.05%) Degree
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) GDPR
1 6 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (14.29%) NIST
2 4 (9.52%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.76%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (4.76%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.52%) Postfix
4 2 (4.76%) RACF
5 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (61.90%) Terraform
2 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (21.43%) Grafana
4 8 (19.05%) Prometheus
5 6 (14.29%) Ansible
6 4 (9.52%) Kibana
6 4 (9.52%) Puppet
7 3 (7.14%) Argo
7 3 (7.14%) Packer
7 3 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.38%) Cilium
9 1 (2.38%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Splunk
2 4 (9.52%) AppDynamics
2 4 (9.52%) Atlassian
2 4 (9.52%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (7.14%) Thales
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) VMware
5 1 (2.38%) Black Duck
5 1 (2.38%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.38%) Tenable