AWS KMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS KMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS KMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 394 442
Rank change year-on-year +73 +48 +50
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 15 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.024% 0.083%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.092% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £339 - -
25th Percentile £358 £456 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £513 £469 £575
90th Percentile £525 - £775
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -21.15%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS KMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS KMS in the UK excluding London

AWS KMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS KMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS KMS in the UK excluding London

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS KMS in the UK excluding London

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Midlands - 6 £500 -
West Midlands - 6 £500 -
South East - 4 £500 - 4
North West +19 3 £358 - 4
North of England +17 3 £358 -22.59% 4
East of England - 2 £525 - 1
AWS KMS
UK

AWS KMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) nginx
1 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 7 (46.67%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (46.67%) Route 53
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (20.00%) Azure
6 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (46.67%) DynamoDB
1 7 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (46.67%) JUnit
2 7 (46.67%) Mockito
3 4 (26.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (26.67%) DbUnit
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) jMock
3 4 (26.67%) Maven
3 4 (26.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
1 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Web Services
2 7 (46.67%) Hibernate
2 7 (46.67%) REST
2 7 (46.67%) Spring
2 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (26.67%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (26.67%) Bootstrap
3 4 (26.67%) JPA
3 4 (26.67%) PowerMock
3 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 4 (26.67%) SOAP
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Batch
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Integration
4 3 (20.00%) .NET
4 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 3 (20.00%) jQuery
4 3 (20.00%) OAuth
4 3 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) PKI
2 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) BDD
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
1 7 (46.67%) Kanban
1 7 (46.67%) Microservices
1 7 (46.67%) Scrum
1 7 (46.67%) TDD
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Key Management
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (26.67%) Open Source
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (20.00%) Cryptography
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
1 2 (13.33%) NIST 800
1 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
2 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (26.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Grafana
1 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
2 3 (20.00%) Kibana
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Atlassian
1 4 (26.67%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (20.00%) Thales
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft