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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 349 397
Rank change year-on-year -48 +48 +52
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 39 18 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.13% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.31% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 7
10th Percentile £400 £409 £475
25th Percentile £500 £422 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £600 £555 £919
90th Percentile £650 £605 £938
England median daily rate £513 £475 £545
% change year-on-year +7.89% -12.84% -0.91%

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 8,225 5,794 7,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.75% 42.92% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,648 3,925 5,194
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 81 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £18.67
25th Percentile £25.44 £25.01 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £60.50
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +61.15% +14.32% -33.33%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 12 £513 -
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 (23.08%) Confluence
2 4 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (7.69%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (58.97%) Amazon S3
3 20 (51.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (43.59%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (35.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (28.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 11 (28.21%) AWS CloudTrail
7 10 (25.64%) Azure
8 8 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (15.38%) Serverless
10 5 (12.82%) GitHub
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (10.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (10.26%) dbt
11 4 (10.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) Firewall
2 3 (7.69%) WAN
3 2 (5.13%) SSH
3 2 (5.13%) X.509
4 1 (2.56%) DNS
4 1 (2.56%) Network Security
4 1 (2.56%) SSL
4 1 (2.56%) VPN
4 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (12.82%) Metadata
4 4 (10.26%) DynamoDB
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (7.69%) Parquet
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (41.03%) Jenkins
2 14 (35.90%) Git
3 12 (30.77%) JIRA
4 6 (15.38%) GitLab
5 4 (10.26%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (10.26%) DbUnit
5 4 (10.26%) jMock
5 4 (10.26%) JUnit
5 4 (10.26%) Maven
5 4 (10.26%) Mockito
5 4 (10.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.56%) Snyk
6 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (41.03%) Public Sector
2 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Finance
5 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Architect
3 6 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) AWS Architect
5 4 (10.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Security Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Security Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Technical Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) JSON
2 4 (10.26%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
2 4 (10.26%) Bootstrap
2 4 (10.26%) Hibernate
2 4 (10.26%) JPA
2 4 (10.26%) PowerMock
2 4 (10.26%) PySpark
2 4 (10.26%) REST
2 4 (10.26%) RESTful
2 4 (10.26%) SOAP
2 4 (10.26%) Spring
2 4 (10.26%) Spring Batch
2 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
2 4 (10.26%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (10.26%) Spring Integration
2 4 (10.26%) Web Services
3 3 (7.69%) Node.js
4 2 (5.13%) React
4 2 (5.13%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Replication
2 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.69%) Windows
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 20 (51.28%) Agile
3 15 (38.46%) DevOps
4 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (25.64%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (17.95%) Change Management
7 7 (17.95%) Cloud Security
7 7 (17.95%) Migration
7 7 (17.95%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (17.95%) RBAC
7 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (15.38%) Decision-Making
8 6 (15.38%) Key Management
8 6 (15.38%) Servant Leadership
8 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (12.82%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
9 5 (12.82%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (12.82%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) Java
2 11 (28.21%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.38%) Groovy
5 5 (12.82%) Perl
6 3 (7.69%) Bash
7 2 (5.13%) Go
8 1 (2.56%) C
8 1 (2.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 9 (23.08%) AWS Certification
4 7 (17.95%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) NCSC
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.69%) Postfix
4 2 (5.13%) OpenSSH
5 1 (2.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (46.15%) Terraform
2 9 (23.08%) Grafana
3 6 (15.38%) Ansible
3 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.69%) Packer
4 3 (7.69%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) CloudForms
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 4 (10.26%) Atlassian
2 4 (10.26%) Citrix
2 4 (10.26%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 3 (7.69%) Foundry
3 3 (7.69%) PagerDuty
3 3 (7.69%) Palantir
3 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Trend Micro