AWS KMS Contracts in London

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 396 443
Rank change year-on-year +54 +47 +105
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 18 11 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.062% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.16% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 35
10th Percentile £409 £475 £463
25th Percentile £422 £588 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% -25.00%
75th Percentile £555 £919 £616
90th Percentile £605 £938 £650
England median daily rate £475 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -12.84% -0.91% -15.38%

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 5,627 7,027 10,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.93% 39.87% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,810 5,163 7,376
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 63 74
10th Percentile £22.80 £18.22 £19.25
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.04 £25.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -53.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS KMS in London

AWS KMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS KMS in London

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS in London over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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
West London +9 2 - -
Central London +6 1 £700 -18.84% 2
South London - 1 - -
AWS KMS
England

AWS KMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (33.33%) Serverless
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
7 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
8 2 (11.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) DynamoDB
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.56%) DbUnit
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) jMock
3 1 (5.56%) JUnit
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) Mockito
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Security Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Developer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Migration Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Node.js
2 3 (16.67%) boto
2 3 (16.67%) React
3 2 (11.11%) AWS CDK
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
4 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.56%) JPA
4 1 (5.56%) PowerMock
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) SOAP
4 1 (5.56%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) CentOS
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (22.22%) Microservices
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) SIEM
5 4 (22.22%) Threat Detection
5 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Secrets Management
6 3 (16.67%) Static Code Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) Observability
7 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) AWS Certification
2 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) Degree
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Postfix
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (83.33%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
4 3 (16.67%) Argo
4 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (16.67%) Puppet
5 2 (11.11%) Ansible
5 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.56%) Cilium
6 1 (5.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.56%) Black Duck
3 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
3 1 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (5.56%) Tenable