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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 337 394
Rank change year-on-year -39 +57 +53
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 38 22 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.17% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.41% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 9
10th Percentile £451 £407 -
25th Percentile £486 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +17.07%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £663
90th Percentile £641 £640 £905
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -

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 7,614 5,331 6,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.54% 42.40% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,255 3,697 5,005
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 53 69
10th Percentile £20.19 £22.58 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.25 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -48.00%
75th Percentile £54.50 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.70 £72.50 £59.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £21.00
% change year-on-year +70.13% +25.95% -34.98%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -6 10 £513 -6.82% 1
Central London -6 3 £475 -32.14% 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 8 (21.05%) Confluence
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (42.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 16 (42.11%) Amazon S3
2 16 (42.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 15 (39.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (28.95%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (26.32%) Azure
6 9 (23.68%) AWS CloudTrail
7 6 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (13.16%) Entra ID
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (10.53%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (10.53%) dbt
9 4 (10.53%) Route 53
10 3 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
1 4 (10.53%) Network Security
2 2 (5.26%) SSH
2 2 (5.26%) X.509
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.53%) Metadata
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (7.89%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.63%) MySQL
7 1 (2.63%) OLAP
7 1 (2.63%) OLTP
7 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Git
1 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.68%) JIRA
3 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (7.89%) DbUnit
3 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 3 (7.89%) jMock
3 3 (7.89%) JUnit
3 3 (7.89%) Maven
3 3 (7.89%) Mockito
3 3 (7.89%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.63%) Snyk
4 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (47.37%) Public Sector
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Architect
2 9 (23.68%) Security Architect
3 7 (18.42%) AWS Architect
3 7 (18.42%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Lead
5 5 (13.16%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) AWS Security Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Lead Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Security Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Data Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Java Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
1 3 (7.89%) Bootstrap
1 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
1 3 (7.89%) JPA
1 3 (7.89%) PowerMock
1 3 (7.89%) REST
1 3 (7.89%) RESTful
1 3 (7.89%) SOAP
1 3 (7.89%) Spring
1 3 (7.89%) Spring Batch
1 3 (7.89%) Spring Boot
1 3 (7.89%) Spring Cloud
1 3 (7.89%) Spring Integration
1 3 (7.89%) Web Services
2 2 (5.26%) JSON
2 2 (5.26%) Node.js
2 2 (5.26%) React
2 2 (5.26%) SPIFFE
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.16%) Replication
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.89%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Clustering
4 1 (2.63%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 15 (39.47%) Agile
3 12 (31.58%) DevOps
3 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (31.58%) Migration
4 10 (26.32%) Cloud Security
5 9 (23.68%) RBAC
5 9 (23.68%) Security Architecture
6 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (15.79%) DevSecOps
8 6 (15.79%) Key Management
8 6 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
9 5 (13.16%) SDLC
9 5 (13.16%) Servant Leadership
9 5 (13.16%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (13.16%) Zero Trust
10 4 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) Java
3 7 (18.42%) SQL
4 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.53%) Groovy
5 4 (10.53%) Perl
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 18 (47.37%) SC Cleared
3 16 (42.11%) AWS Certification
4 5 (13.16%) Azure Certification
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Degree
6 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.63%) CCSP
7 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.63%) CISSP
7 1 (2.63%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (15.79%) NCSC
3 5 (13.16%) GDPR
4 4 (10.53%) NIST
4 4 (10.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (2.63%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.26%) OpenSSH
3 2 (5.26%) Postfix
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (42.11%) Terraform
2 7 (18.42%) Grafana
3 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.89%) Ansible
4 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 6 (15.79%) Citrix
3 3 (7.89%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.89%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (5.26%) CloudEndure
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Percona
5 1 (2.63%) Splunk