AWS KMS Contracts

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 565 643
Rank change year-on-year +80 +78 +113
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 41 18 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.041% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.13% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 47
10th Percentile £358 £456 £453
25th Percentile £411 £458 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -7.14% -19.23%
75th Percentile £550 £647 £650
90th Percentile £608 £715 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -2.44%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,009 14,039 21,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.57% 32.34% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,641 9,976 15,834
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 343 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £33.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +31.31%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS KMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS KMS.

Daily rate trend for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +91 39 £505 +6.32% 24
London +56 21 £525 -8.70% 11
UK excluding London +70 15 £500 +8.11% 13
Work from Home +47 11 £538 +7.50% 13
Midlands - 6 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 6 £500 - 3
South East - 4 £500 - 6
North West +12 3 £358 - 4
North of England +9 3 £358 -22.59% 4
East of England - 2 £525 -

AWS KMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (9.76%) Apache
1 4 (9.76%) nginx
1 4 (9.76%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (56.10%) Amazon S3
3 21 (51.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (41.46%) Amazon SQS
5 16 (39.02%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (34.15%) Serverless
7 11 (26.83%) Route 53
8 10 (24.39%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (21.95%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (17.07%) Amazon ECR
10 7 (17.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (14.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 6 (14.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudTrail
12 5 (12.20%) Azure
13 4 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (7.32%) IaaS
14 3 (7.32%) PaaS
14 3 (7.32%) SaaS
15 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) SSL
2 3 (7.32%) IPsec
2 3 (7.32%) Kerberos
3 2 (4.88%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) Network Security
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
3 2 (4.88%) X.509
4 1 (2.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) DynamoDB
2 12 (29.27%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (19.51%) MongoDB
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
6 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
6 3 (7.32%) RDBMS
6 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.44%) MySQL
7 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.95%) GitLab
3 7 (17.07%) JUnit
3 7 (17.07%) Maven
3 7 (17.07%) Mockito
4 5 (12.20%) SonarQube
5 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (9.76%) DbUnit
5 4 (9.76%) Git
5 4 (9.76%) jMock
General
1 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) Architect
2 10 (24.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (21.95%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (17.07%) Java Developer
5 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (12.20%) AWS Developer
6 5 (12.20%) Senior
6 5 (12.20%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) Technical Architect
7 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Lead
8 3 (7.32%) Lead Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Security Architect
8 3 (7.32%) Security Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) Web Services
2 10 (24.39%) Node.js
2 10 (24.39%) REST
2 10 (24.39%) Spring
2 10 (24.39%) Spring Boot
3 8 (19.51%) OAuth
4 7 (17.07%) Hibernate
5 5 (12.20%) boto
5 5 (12.20%) React
6 4 (9.76%) .NET
6 4 (9.76%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (9.76%) JPA
6 4 (9.76%) OpenID
6 4 (9.76%) PowerMock
6 4 (9.76%) RESTful
6 4 (9.76%) SOAP
6 4 (9.76%) Spring Batch
6 4 (9.76%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (9.76%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) PKI
2 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) DevOps
2 26 (63.41%) CI/CD
3 16 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (36.59%) Microservices
5 11 (26.83%) Agile
5 11 (26.83%) Secrets Management
6 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
6 10 (24.39%) TDD
7 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (19.51%) Cloud Security
8 8 (19.51%) Key Management
9 7 (17.07%) BDD
9 7 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (17.07%) Decision-Making
9 7 (17.07%) Kanban
9 7 (17.07%) Scrum
9 7 (17.07%) Security Architecture
9 7 (17.07%) Static Code Analysis
10 6 (14.63%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) Java
2 11 (26.83%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.88%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (48.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (36.59%) AWS Certification
2 15 (36.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.95%) Degree
4 5 (12.20%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (9.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.44%) CISM
8 1 (2.44%) CISSP
8 1 (2.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) GDPR
1 5 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.20%) NIST
2 2 (4.88%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (4.88%) NIST 800
2 2 (4.88%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.76%) Postfix
4 3 (7.32%) RACF
5 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (58.54%) Terraform
2 12 (29.27%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.51%) Grafana
4 6 (14.63%) Prometheus
5 5 (12.20%) Ansible
6 4 (9.76%) Kibana
6 4 (9.76%) Packer
6 4 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (7.32%) Argo
7 3 (7.32%) Puppet
8 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.44%) Cilium
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Splunk
2 4 (9.76%) AppDynamics
2 4 (9.76%) Atlassian
2 4 (9.76%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (9.76%) Thales
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.44%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.44%) Gemalto
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Tenable