AWS KMS Job Trends in the South East

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 299 263
Rank change year-on-year +24 -36 +149
Permanent jobs citing AWS KMS 1 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.010% 0.086% 0.078%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.031% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65,850
25th Percentile - - £68,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £74,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.86%
75th Percentile - - £81,625
90th Percentile - - £85,150
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% -26.32%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

AWS KMS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,219 3,034 2,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.04% 32.67% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 1,658 2,136
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,302
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS KMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS KMS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS KMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS KMS within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Surrey +5 1 - -
AWS KMS
England

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python