AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS KMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS KMS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 862 919 1171
Rank change year-on-year +57 +252 -288
Permanent jobs citing AWS KMS 26 76 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.075% 0.041%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.073% 0.17% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 25 26 37
10th Percentile £47,789 £75,625 £59,500
25th Percentile £57,597 £87,813 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £97,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.61% +2.63% +31.03%
75th Percentile £67,968 £100,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £130,000 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £73,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year -14.87% -10.61% +22.22%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS KMS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Top 10 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 8 May 2024. 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 +29 26 £62,783 -35.61% 4
Work from Home +65 17 £62,783 -37.22% 1
UK excluding London +2 16 £62,783 -14.87% 1
North of England +52 12 £62,783 +4.64%
London +60 10 £65,000 -35.00% 4
North West +12 7 £62,783 +4.64%
East of England - 3 £42,500 -
North East - 3 £62,783 -
Yorkshire - 2 £62,783 -
South East +14 1 £85,000 -2.86%

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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (53.85%) Azure
3 12 (46.15%) Azure Key Vault
3 12 (46.15%) Entra ID
4 8 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (19.23%) AWS CodePipeline
5 5 (19.23%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (11.54%) Loggly
7 3 (11.54%) Rackspace Cloud
8 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) Git
3 4 (15.38%) Bitbucket
4 3 (11.54%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.69%) Selenium
6 1 (3.85%) DbUnit
6 1 (3.85%) jMock
6 1 (3.85%) JUnit
6 1 (3.85%) Maven
6 1 (3.85%) Mocha
6 1 (3.85%) Mockito
6 1 (3.85%) Postman
6 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.85%) TestNG
General
1 13 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 12 (46.15%) Security Engineer
1 12 (46.15%) Senior
1 12 (46.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 12 (46.15%) Senior Security Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Development Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Lambda Expressions
1 6 (23.08%) Node.js
2 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) React
2 3 (11.54%) REST
2 3 (11.54%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.69%) Web Services
4 1 (3.85%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.85%) Celery
4 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.85%) Next.js
4 1 (3.85%) PowerMock
4 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Enterprise Software
1 12 (46.15%) Hybrid Cloud
1 12 (46.15%) PKI
1 12 (46.15%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Secrets Management
2 16 (61.54%) DevOps
3 12 (46.15%) Coaching
3 12 (46.15%) Identity Management
3 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (46.15%) Key Management
3 12 (46.15%) Mentoring
3 12 (46.15%) Privileged Identity Management
4 9 (34.62%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
6 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (15.38%) Microservices
7 3 (11.54%) Design Patterns
7 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.69%) Process Improvement
8 2 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Java
2 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.54%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) CA Single Sign-On
1 12 (46.15%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 2 (7.69%) Terraform
5 1 (3.85%) Consul
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) CA
1 12 (46.15%) CyberArk
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
1 12 (46.15%) ServiceNow
2 3 (11.54%) New Relic
2 3 (11.54%) Rackspace
2 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
3 2 (7.69%) Atlassian