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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 372 422
Rank change year-on-year +56 +50 +61
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 22 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.029% 0.061%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £358 - £452
25th Percentile £417 £456 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile - £469 £556
90th Percentile £525 - £703
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -15.38%

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 4,088 5,290 7,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.88% 25.97% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 3,761 5,560
10th Percentile £237 £213 £250
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 260 221
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.97 £17.72 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% -29.12% +25.00%
75th Percentile £34.46 £32.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £66.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.90% -38.94% +59.09%

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 24 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 24 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 - 8 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 8 £500 - 3
North of England +14 6 £358 -22.59% 6
South East - 4 £500 - 13
North West +12 3 £358 - 4
Yorkshire +9 3 £500 +8.11% 2
Scotland +2 2 £500 -
East of England - 2 £525 - 4
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 (13.64%) Apache
1 3 (13.64%) nginx
1 3 (13.64%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (72.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 16 (72.73%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (63.64%) Amazon S3
4 11 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (40.91%) Route 53
6 6 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (22.73%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (22.73%) GitHub
7 5 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (13.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (13.64%) Azure
10 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (9.09%) Amazon Macie
10 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) SSL
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 9 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
5 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
5 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
5 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (77.27%) Jenkins
2 9 (40.91%) JUnit
3 8 (36.36%) Git
3 8 (36.36%) Mockito
4 6 (27.27%) Maven
4 6 (27.27%) SonarQube
5 5 (22.73%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (22.73%) DbUnit
5 5 (22.73%) jMock
6 2 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
1 9 (40.91%) Java Developer
2 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Lead
4 4 (18.18%) Architect
4 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Lead Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Web Services
2 10 (45.45%) REST
3 9 (40.91%) Hibernate
3 9 (40.91%) Spring
3 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
4 7 (31.82%) SOAP
5 6 (27.27%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (27.27%) JPA
5 6 (27.27%) RESTful
5 6 (27.27%) Spring Batch
5 6 (27.27%) Spring Integration
6 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
6 5 (22.73%) Bootstrap
6 5 (22.73%) PowerMock
6 5 (22.73%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (13.64%) .NET
7 3 (13.64%) HTML
7 3 (13.64%) jQuery
7 3 (13.64%) OAuth
7 3 (13.64%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (22.73%) PKI
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Microservices
2 9 (40.91%) Scrum
2 9 (40.91%) TDD
3 8 (36.36%) BDD
3 8 (36.36%) Kanban
4 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (31.82%) Secrets Management
5 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (22.73%) FinOps
6 5 (22.73%) Key Management
6 5 (22.73%) Open Source
7 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) RBAC
7 4 (18.18%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) AWS Certification
4 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) GDPR
1 5 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (22.73%) NIST
1 5 (22.73%) SOC 2
2 2 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (9.09%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (9.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Docker
2 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (22.73%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Prometheus
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Grafana
3 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 3 (13.64%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Kibana
5 2 (9.09%) Kustomize
5 2 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Atlassian
1 5 (22.73%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (13.64%) AppDynamics
2 3 (13.64%) Thales
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk