AWS KMS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 559 541
Rank change year-on-year +50 -18 +236
Permanent jobs citing AWS KMS 14 20 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.054% 0.023%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.17% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65,850
25th Percentile £71,250 £91,250 £68,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £92,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +24.16% -14.86%
75th Percentile £76,563 £93,750 £81,625
90th Percentile £77,500 - £85,150
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% -26.32%

All Cloud Computing 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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,627 12,028 11,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.41% 32.25% 37.97%
Number of salaries quoted 6,833 6,601 9,587
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS KMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS KMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS KMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Midlands - 11 £72,500 - 4
West Midlands - 11 £72,500 - 2
East of England +19 2 £75,000 - 2
South East +24 1 - - 3
AWS KMS
UK

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (64.29%) Confluence
2 4 (28.57%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon ELB
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon S3
3 11 (78.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (78.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (35.71%) Azure
6 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (28.57%) Route 53
7 2 (14.29%) Boomi
7 2 (14.29%) Matillion
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) DNS
1 11 (78.57%) FTP
1 11 (78.57%) HTTP
1 11 (78.57%) SMTP
1 11 (78.57%) SSH
2 10 (71.43%) Firewall
3 4 (28.57%) IMAP
3 4 (28.57%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Pentaho
3 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 11 (78.57%) Vagrant
3 9 (64.29%) Git
3 9 (64.29%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) Subversion
5 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (7.14%) GitLab
5 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 7 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Law
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) LDAP
2 2 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 11 (78.57%) VMS
3 9 (64.29%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (50.00%) Windows
5 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Cloud Security
1 11 (78.57%) Configuration Management
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) Change Management
2 9 (64.29%) Patch Management
3 7 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction
6 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 2 (14.29%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) OO
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Project Management
6 2 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (78.57%) Groovy
3 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
4 8 (57.14%) Java
5 7 (50.00%) Perl
6 6 (42.86%) SQL
7 2 (14.29%) C#
7 2 (14.29%) Ruby
8 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
3 5 (35.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
1 2 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
2 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) DFS Replication
3 4 (28.57%) Dovecot
3 4 (28.57%) Postfix
3 4 (28.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 9 (64.29%) Grafana
2 9 (64.29%) Prometheus
3 4 (28.57%) Nessus
3 4 (28.57%) Proxmox
4 2 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) ServiceNow
2 4 (28.57%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (14.29%) Informatica
3 2 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Talend