AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in London

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 372 409
Rank change year-on-year +10 +37 +145
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 23 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.089% 0.054%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 10
10th Percentile £419 £396 £446
25th Percentile £463 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +17.95% -11.36%
75th Percentile £609 £938 £588
90th Percentile £731 - £650
England median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -7.14%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,161 6,430 7,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 40.94% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,173 4,362 5,768
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £528
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.33% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 36 69
10th Percentile £18.56 £21.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.75 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% -11.18% +33.92%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.13 £85.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in London

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS KMS in London

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
South London - 12 £488 -
AWS KMS
England

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (43.48%) Confluence
1 10 (43.48%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon S3
3 11 (47.83%) Route 53
4 10 (43.48%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (43.48%) Azure
4 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (43.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (34.78%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (34.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) DNS
1 10 (43.48%) Firewall
1 10 (43.48%) FTP
1 10 (43.48%) HTTP
1 10 (43.48%) IMAP
1 10 (43.48%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (43.48%) SMTP
1 10 (43.48%) SSH
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Amazon Aurora
1 12 (52.17%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (52.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Git
1 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 10 (43.48%) JIRA
2 10 (43.48%) Vagrant
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (4.35%) DbUnit
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) jMock
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) Maven
3 1 (4.35%) Mockito
3 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (69.57%) Public Sector
2 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (43.48%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (69.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 16 (69.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (69.57%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (34.78%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (34.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (34.78%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) Senior
6 4 (17.39%) Security Engineer
6 4 (17.39%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Architect
8 1 (4.35%) Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) LDAP
2 6 (26.09%) AWS CDK
3 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
4 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.35%) JPA
4 1 (4.35%) PowerMock
4 1 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) SOAP
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Integration
4 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Replication
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Linux
2 10 (43.48%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (43.48%) Ubuntu
2 10 (43.48%) VMS
2 10 (43.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) CI/CD
2 16 (69.57%) DevOps
2 16 (69.57%) Platform Engineering
3 15 (65.22%) Cloud Security
4 10 (43.48%) Change Management
4 10 (43.48%) Configuration Management
4 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (43.48%) Patch Management
4 10 (43.48%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (26.09%) Observability
5 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (17.39%) Agile
7 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
7 3 (13.04%) Threat Detection
8 2 (8.70%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps
8 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) SIEM
8 2 (8.70%) Threat Modelling
9 1 (4.35%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Python
2 11 (47.83%) SQL
3 10 (43.48%) Groovy
3 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
4 4 (17.39%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) Java
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (69.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (52.17%) AWS Certification
4 10 (43.48%) Azure Certification
4 10 (43.48%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) CISM
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
2 11 (47.83%) Postfix
3 10 (43.48%) DFS Replication
3 10 (43.48%) Dovecot
3 10 (43.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (91.30%) Terraform
2 17 (73.91%) Grafana
3 11 (47.83%) Prometheus
4 10 (43.48%) Nessus
4 10 (43.48%) Proxmox
5 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (43.48%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk