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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 333 384
Rank change year-on-year -31 +51 +104
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 27 20 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.15% 0.043%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.35% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 7
10th Percentile £440 £411 -
25th Percentile £469 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £575
90th Percentile £635 £700 £730
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -1.04%

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 6,572 5,638 6,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.23% 41.60% 37.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,499 3,739 5,144
10th Percentile £347 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 48 78
10th Percentile £18.06 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.12 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.08 £32.75 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +8.77% +5.65%
75th Percentile £55.44 £56.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £69.38 £60.75
England median hourly rate £35.81 £27.50 £22.23
% change year-on-year +30.22% +23.73% -11.10%

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 February 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 February 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 0 7 £488 -11.36% 1
Central London -13 3 £475 -17.75% 2
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 6 (22.22%) Confluence
1 6 (22.22%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 14 (51.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (40.74%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (40.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 9 (33.33%) Azure
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon S3
6 7 (25.93%) Route 53
7 6 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
9 4 (14.81%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (11.11%) GitHub
11 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (7.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
2 6 (22.22%) DNS
2 6 (22.22%) FTP
2 6 (22.22%) HTTP
2 6 (22.22%) IMAP
2 6 (22.22%) OpenLDAP
2 6 (22.22%) SMTP
2 6 (22.22%) SSH
3 5 (18.52%) Network Security
4 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (29.63%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) OLAP
3 1 (3.70%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.93%) Git
3 6 (22.22%) JIRA
3 6 (22.22%) Vagrant
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
4 1 (3.70%) Snyk
General
1 18 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Architect
1 12 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Security Architect
4 6 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Security Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) AWS Architect
6 4 (14.81%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) AWS Security Architect
7 3 (11.11%) Lead
7 3 (11.11%) Lead Architect
7 3 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) LDAP
2 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Replication
2 6 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Amazon Linux
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
1 6 (22.22%) Ubuntu
1 6 (22.22%) VMS
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 16 (59.26%) Cloud Security
3 13 (48.15%) DevOps
4 12 (44.44%) Migration
5 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (22.22%) Change Management
7 6 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 6 (22.22%) DevSecOps
7 6 (22.22%) Patch Management
7 6 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (22.22%) Security Architecture
8 5 (18.52%) RBAC
9 4 (14.81%) Threat Detection
9 4 (14.81%) Zero Trust
10 3 (11.11%) BCP
10 3 (11.11%) Benchmarking
10 3 (11.11%) Security Hardening
10 3 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
10 3 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) Groovy
2 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Go
3 1 (3.70%) Ruby
3 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 16 (59.26%) Security Cleared
3 15 (55.56%) SC Cleared
4 8 (29.63%) Degree
5 6 (22.22%) Azure Certification
6 4 (14.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.41%) CISSP
8 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (3.70%) CCSP
8 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (3.70%) CISM
8 1 (3.70%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (22.22%) NCSC
3 5 (18.52%) GDPR
4 3 (11.11%) NIST
4 3 (11.11%) PCI DSS
5 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (3.70%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
2 6 (22.22%) DFS Replication
2 6 (22.22%) Dovecot
2 6 (22.22%) Postfix
2 6 (22.22%) Squid
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Terraform
2 7 (25.93%) Grafana
2 7 (25.93%) Nessus
3 6 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 6 (22.22%) Proxmox
4 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Citrix
1 6 (22.22%) Jaspersoft
1 6 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.41%) CloudEndure
3 1 (3.70%) Percona
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk