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 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 349 382
Rank change year-on-year -52 +33 +44
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 46 24 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.18% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 0.41% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 6
10th Percentile £450 £414 £422
25th Percentile £518 £425 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £863
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -39.13% +56.82%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £938
90th Percentile £650 £725 -
England median daily rate £550 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% +4.55%

All Cloud Computing 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 8,323 5,794 6,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.18% 43.26% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,696 3,953 4,733
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 52
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +2.33% -31.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £45.65
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%

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 September 2026.

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 September 2026. 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 -3 16 £550 +15.79% 1
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 9 (19.57%) Confluence
2 5 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.52%) nginx
3 3 (6.52%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (2.17%) Apache
5 1 (2.17%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (63.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 26 (56.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 25 (54.35%) Amazon S3
5 20 (43.48%) Azure
6 19 (41.30%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (36.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (19.57%) AWS CloudTrail
8 9 (19.57%) Serverless
9 8 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (13.04%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (10.87%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (10.87%) dbt
11 5 (10.87%) GCP
11 5 (10.87%) GitHub
11 5 (10.87%) Route 53
12 4 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (6.52%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) Firewall
2 4 (8.70%) DNS
2 4 (8.70%) SSH
2 4 (8.70%) SSL
3 3 (6.52%) WAN
4 2 (4.35%) FTP
4 2 (4.35%) HTTP
4 2 (4.35%) HTTPS
4 2 (4.35%) IMAP
4 2 (4.35%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (4.35%) SMTP
4 2 (4.35%) X.509
5 1 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.17%) VPN
5 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (47.83%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (43.48%) Amazon Aurora
2 20 (43.48%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (19.57%) Redis
4 8 (17.39%) MongoDB
4 8 (17.39%) MySQL
4 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (8.70%) Metadata
5 4 (8.70%) Parquet
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (6.52%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.35%) Power BI
8 1 (2.17%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.17%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.17%) Db2
8 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.26%) Git
3 12 (26.09%) JIRA
4 6 (13.04%) GitLab
5 3 (6.52%) Maven
6 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (4.35%) DbUnit
6 2 (4.35%) jMock
6 2 (4.35%) JUnit
6 2 (4.35%) Mockito
6 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (4.35%) Vagrant
7 1 (2.17%) MLflow
General
1 20 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.78%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) DBA
2 9 (19.57%) Architect
2 9 (19.57%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Administrator
3 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) AWS Architect
5 6 (13.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 4 (8.70%) Senior DBA
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Security Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Cloud Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (71.74%) Terraform
2 6 (13.04%) PySpark
3 5 (10.87%) JSON
4 2 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.35%) JPA
4 2 (4.35%) Kafka
4 2 (4.35%) LDAP
4 2 (4.35%) Node.js
4 2 (4.35%) PowerMock
4 2 (4.35%) REST
4 2 (4.35%) RESTful
4 2 (4.35%) SOAP
4 2 (4.35%) Spring
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Batch
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Integration
4 2 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) Replication
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.35%) PKI
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (32.61%) Linux
2 10 (21.74%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (10.87%) Windows
4 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.52%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) VMS
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (71.74%) CI/CD
2 29 (63.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (47.83%) Performance Tuning
4 18 (39.13%) DevOps
5 16 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (32.61%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (32.61%) Secrets Management
7 14 (30.43%) Agile
7 14 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (26.09%) High Availability
9 11 (23.91%) Data Modelling
10 10 (21.74%) Validation
11 9 (19.57%) Data Reconciliation
12 8 (17.39%) Observability
13 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (15.22%) Key Management
13 7 (15.22%) Migration
13 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (15.22%) Servant Leadership
14 6 (13.04%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) Python
2 21 (45.65%) SQL
3 12 (26.09%) PowerShell
4 10 (21.74%) Groovy
5 9 (19.57%) Java
6 7 (15.22%) Perl
7 6 (13.04%) Bash
8 2 (4.35%) Go
9 1 (2.17%) C
9 1 (2.17%) COBOL
9 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.17%) R
9 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) SC Cleared
1 22 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 21 (45.65%) AWS Certification
3 11 (23.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (23.91%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.35%) PMP
5 2 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 6 (13.04%) NIST
3 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.35%) GDPR
4 2 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) Docker
2 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.70%) Postfix
4 3 (6.52%) Squid
5 2 (4.35%) DFS Replication
5 2 (4.35%) Dovecot
5 2 (4.35%) OpenSSH
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) Grafana
2 12 (26.09%) Prometheus
3 6 (13.04%) Ansible
4 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.52%) Packer
5 3 (6.52%) Puppet
6 2 (4.35%) Argo
6 2 (4.35%) Istio
6 2 (4.35%) Nessus
6 2 (4.35%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.17%) CloudForms
7 1 (2.17%) Control-M
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.17%) systemd
7 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) ServiceNow
2 5 (10.87%) Databricks
3 4 (8.70%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.52%) Foundry
4 3 (6.52%) PagerDuty
4 3 (6.52%) Palantir
5 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.17%) Citrix
6 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.17%) Informatica
6 1 (2.17%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Sonatype
6 1 (2.17%) Trend Micro
6 1 (2.17%) Zscaler