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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 369 429
Rank change year-on-year +32 +60 +145
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 24 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.068% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.17% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 28
10th Percentile £420 £422 £459
25th Percentile £475 £603 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £863 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +56.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £625 £938 £631
90th Percentile £725 - £650
England median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +3.77%

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 5,728 6,643 8,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.26% 41.30% 39.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,897 4,659 6,548
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.54%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £786
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 65
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.40
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £22.75
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -35.60% +35.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 - 11 £475 -
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 10 (41.67%) Confluence
1 10 (41.67%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
3 12 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 11 (45.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (45.83%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (45.83%) Azure
4 11 (45.83%) Route 53
5 10 (41.67%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (41.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 10 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (41.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (8.33%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) DNS
1 10 (41.67%) Firewall
1 10 (41.67%) FTP
1 10 (41.67%) HTTP
1 10 (41.67%) IMAP
1 10 (41.67%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (41.67%) SMTP
1 10 (41.67%) SSH
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Git
2 11 (45.83%) Jenkins
3 10 (41.67%) JIRA
3 10 (41.67%) Vagrant
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (4.17%) DbUnit
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) jMock
4 1 (4.17%) JUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Maven
4 1 (4.17%) Mockito
4 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 16 (66.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 16 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 16 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 6 (25.00%) Senior
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) LDAP
2 6 (25.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.33%) Web Services
4 1 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) Bootstrap
4 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.17%) JPA
4 1 (4.17%) PowerMock
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Replication
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Ubuntu
2 10 (41.67%) VMS
2 10 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 16 (66.67%) DevOps
2 16 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 15 (62.50%) Cloud Security
4 11 (45.83%) Configuration Management
5 10 (41.67%) Change Management
5 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (41.67%) Patch Management
5 10 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (25.00%) Observability
8 4 (16.67%) Agile
9 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
9 3 (12.50%) Threat Detection
10 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
10 2 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
10 2 (8.33%) DevSecOps
10 2 (8.33%) High Availability
10 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 10 (41.67%) Groovy
3 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) Go
5 3 (12.50%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (70.83%) SC Cleared
3 13 (54.17%) AWS Certification
4 12 (50.00%) Degree
5 10 (41.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) CISM
6 1 (4.17%) CISSP
6 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (54.17%) Docker
2 11 (45.83%) Postfix
3 10 (41.67%) DFS Replication
3 10 (41.67%) Dovecot
3 10 (41.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (87.50%) Terraform
2 17 (70.83%) Grafana
3 11 (45.83%) Prometheus
4 10 (41.67%) Nessus
4 10 (41.67%) Proxmox
5 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.17%) Ansible
6 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (41.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk