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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 360 413
Rank change year-on-year +15 +53 +140
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 23 15 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.096% 0.049%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 9
10th Percentile £429 £408 £443
25th Percentile £472 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £528 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +11.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £609 £938 £550
90th Percentile £731 - £560
England median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% -7.32%

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 6,137 6,393 7,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.96% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,157 4,344 5,729
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 34 69
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -9.68% +51.96%
75th Percentile £41.25 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.33 £85.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%

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 17 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 17 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 -
Central London -2 1 £475 +4.40% 6
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 12 (52.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (47.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (47.83%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (47.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 11 (47.83%) Amazon S3
4 11 (47.83%) Route 53
5 10 (43.48%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (43.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (43.48%) Azure
5 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
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
8 1 (4.35%) Serverless
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 3 (13.04%) 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 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
3 10 (43.48%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
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 9 (39.13%) 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%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Architect
7 3 (13.04%) Security Architect
8 2 (8.70%) AWS Architect
8 2 (8.70%) AWS Security Architect
8 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
9 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 1 (4.35%) Developer
9 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 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
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 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
2 16 (69.57%) Platform Engineering
3 15 (65.22%) Cloud Security
3 15 (65.22%) DevOps
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 2 (8.70%) Agile
6 2 (8.70%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps
6 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Migration
6 2 (8.70%) Risk Management
6 2 (8.70%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 11 (47.83%) SQL
3 10 (43.48%) Groovy
3 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
4 4 (17.39%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
3 13 (56.52%) AWS Certification
4 10 (43.48%) Azure Certification
4 10 (43.48%) Degree
5 2 (8.70%) CISSP
6 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (4.35%) CCSP
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.35%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.04%) GDPR
3 2 (8.70%) NIST
3 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
4 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