AWS KMS Job Trends

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 677 698
Rank change year-on-year +46 +21 +269
Permanent jobs citing AWS KMS 20 34 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.062% 0.029%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.098% 0.17% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 9
10th Percentile - £60,000 £61,545
25th Percentile £71,250 £65,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% +14.29% -26.32%
75th Percentile £77,500 £121,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £129,500 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £92,500 £74,500
% change year-on-year -21.62% +24.16% -14.86%

All Cloud Computing 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 20,505 19,934 21,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 36.09% 41.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11,185 11,794 17,464
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £101,268 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS KMS
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS KMS over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS KMS in the UK

AWS KMS
Top 8 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 1 January 2026. 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 +66 20 £73,750 -7.81% 17
UK excluding London +58 15 £72,500 -21.62% 11
Midlands - 11 £72,500 - 5
West Midlands - 11 £72,500 - 5
London +19 7 £75,000 -1.64% 7
Work from Home +68 4 £86,250 +18.97% 10
East of England +22 3 £75,000 - 2
South East +20 1 - - 1

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (50.00%) Confluence
2 4 (20.00%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (70.00%) Amazon S3
3 13 (65.00%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (65.00%) Amazon ELB
4 12 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (40.00%) Amazon Glacier
6 7 (35.00%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (30.00%) Azure
8 5 (25.00%) Route 53
9 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (15.00%) Boomi
10 3 (15.00%) Matillion
11 2 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
12 1 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (5.00%) Serverless
12 1 (5.00%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) DNS
1 11 (55.00%) FTP
1 11 (55.00%) HTTP
1 11 (55.00%) SMTP
1 11 (55.00%) SSH
2 10 (50.00%) Firewall
3 4 (20.00%) IMAP
3 4 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (15.00%) Pentaho
4 3 (15.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (15.00%) Star Schema
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (55.00%) Vagrant
3 10 (50.00%) Git
3 10 (50.00%) JIRA
4 2 (10.00%) Subversion
5 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.00%) GitLab
5 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (65.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Law
5 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) LDAP
2 3 (15.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) Next.js
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Replication
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 11 (55.00%) VMS
3 9 (45.00%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (35.00%) Windows
5 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) Configuration Management
3 10 (50.00%) Change Management
4 9 (45.00%) Patch Management
5 8 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (35.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) Data Extraction
8 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
8 3 (15.00%) Data Transformation
8 3 (15.00%) ETL
8 3 (15.00%) Migration
8 3 (15.00%) Project Management
8 3 (15.00%) RBAC
9 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 2 (10.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) Groovy
3 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (40.00%) Java
5 7 (35.00%) Perl
5 7 (35.00%) SQL
6 2 (10.00%) C#
6 2 (10.00%) Ruby
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
7 1 (5.00%) Go
7 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (85.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (85.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (25.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) CISM
5 1 (5.00%) CISSP
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (15.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (5.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) DFS Replication
3 4 (20.00%) Dovecot
3 4 (20.00%) Postfix
3 4 (20.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Terraform
2 10 (50.00%) Grafana
3 9 (45.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (20.00%) Nessus
4 4 (20.00%) Proxmox
5 2 (10.00%) Nagios
6 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (15.00%) Informatica
3 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
3 3 (15.00%) Talend
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle