AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring AWS KMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS KMS over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 652 887 893
Rank change year-on-year +235 +6 +264
Permanent jobs citing AWS KMS 57 25 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.024% 0.071%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.070% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39 24 22
10th Percentile - £46,154 £73,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,597 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,783 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% -33.91% -9.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,968 £100,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £62,783 £73,750
% change year-on-year +15.48% -14.87% +5.36%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,281 35,941 42,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.80% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,069 26,912 27,490
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,225 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Top 9 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +189 56 £72,500 +15.48% 99
UK excluding London +214 35 £72,500 +15.48% 92
Midlands - 24 £72,500 - 18
West Midlands - 24 £72,500 - 11
London +126 22 £60,000 -7.69% 15
Work from Home +115 12 £60,000 -4.43% 7
South East - 10 £72,500 - 29
North of England +42 2 £92,500 +47.33% 18
North West +4 2 £92,500 +47.33% 7

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 21 (36.84%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (68.42%) Amazon S3
3 33 (57.89%) Amazon EC2
4 32 (56.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (45.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (40.35%) Serverless
7 22 (38.60%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (31.58%) Amazon ELB
9 16 (28.07%) Amazon Glacier
9 16 (28.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (26.32%) Route 53
11 13 (22.81%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (21.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 11 (19.30%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (12.28%) Azure
15 3 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
15 3 (5.26%) Amazon Macie
15 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
15 3 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
15 3 (5.26%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 22 (38.60%) Firewall
2 11 (19.30%) Network Security
3 7 (12.28%) DNS
3 7 (12.28%) FTP
3 7 (12.28%) HTTP
3 7 (12.28%) SMTP
3 7 (12.28%) SSH
3 7 (12.28%) SSL
4 2 (3.51%) IMAP
4 2 (3.51%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (52.63%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (22.81%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (17.54%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (56.14%) Jenkins
2 28 (49.12%) Git
3 21 (36.84%) JIRA
4 18 (31.58%) Vagrant
5 17 (29.82%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (19.30%) DbUnit
6 11 (19.30%) jMock
6 11 (19.30%) JUnit
6 11 (19.30%) Maven
6 11 (19.30%) Mockito
6 11 (19.30%) SonarQube
7 5 (8.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.75%) GitLab
General
1 24 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Advertising
4 3 (5.26%) Finance
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) AWS Engineer
1 13 (22.81%) Developer
2 12 (21.05%) Architect
2 12 (21.05%) AWS Architect
2 12 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (19.30%) Cloud Architect
3 11 (19.30%) Java Developer
3 11 (19.30%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (17.54%) Senior
5 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (15.79%) Lead
6 7 (12.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Lead Developer
6 7 (12.28%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support
7 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Support Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) ActiveMQ
1 11 (19.30%) Elastic Stack
1 11 (19.30%) Hibernate
1 11 (19.30%) JPA
1 11 (19.30%) Kafka
1 11 (19.30%) PowerMock
1 11 (19.30%) RESTful
1 11 (19.30%) SOAP
1 11 (19.30%) Spring
1 11 (19.30%) Web Services
2 10 (17.54%) AngularJS
2 10 (17.54%) Bootstrap
2 10 (17.54%) Spring Batch
2 10 (17.54%) Spring Boot
2 10 (17.54%) Spring Integration
3 5 (8.77%) REST
4 4 (7.02%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.51%) Nunjucks
5 2 (3.51%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Management Information System
1 11 (19.30%) Replication
2 8 (14.04%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (56.14%) Linux
2 18 (31.58%) VMS
3 15 (26.32%) Windows
4 9 (15.79%) Ubuntu
5 8 (14.04%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) DevOps
2 34 (59.65%) Cloud Security
3 24 (42.11%) Agile
3 24 (42.11%) Containerisation
4 23 (40.35%) Key Management
4 23 (40.35%) Microservices
5 20 (35.09%) CI/CD
6 19 (33.33%) Configuration Management
7 18 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (26.32%) Change Management
8 15 (26.32%) Incident Response
9 14 (24.56%) Mentoring
9 14 (24.56%) Patch Management
9 14 (24.56%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (22.81%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (22.81%) Security Architecture
10 13 (22.81%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (21.05%) Computer Science
11 12 (21.05%) High Availability
11 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (54.39%) Java
1 31 (54.39%) Python
2 17 (29.82%) Groovy
3 15 (26.32%) PowerShell
4 9 (15.79%) Perl
5 7 (12.28%) Shell Script
5 7 (12.28%) SQL
6 5 (8.77%) Bash
7 3 (5.26%) Ruby
8 2 (3.51%) Go
8 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (75.44%) Security Cleared
2 40 (70.18%) SC Cleared
3 19 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 16 (28.07%) Degree
5 13 (22.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.75%) CCSK
9 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.05%) GDPR
2 11 (19.30%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) NIST
4 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (64.91%) Docker
2 19 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (19.30%) DFS Replication
4 7 (12.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (12.28%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (10.53%) Postfix
6 2 (3.51%) Dovecot
6 2 (3.51%) Squid
Systems Management
1 37 (64.91%) Terraform
2 34 (59.65%) Grafana
3 29 (50.88%) Prometheus
4 15 (26.32%) Ansible
4 15 (26.32%) Kubernetes
5 9 (15.79%) Nessus
5 9 (15.79%) Proxmox
6 3 (5.26%) Nagios
7 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) ServiceNow
2 14 (24.56%) Juniper
3 10 (17.54%) Atlassian
4 6 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) Splunk