AWS KMS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 66 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 16 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.98% 0.15% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.84% 0.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £537 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 274 232 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.91% 35.91% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 178 163
10th Percentile £308 £197 £275
25th Percentile £413 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.89%
75th Percentile £592 £609 £578
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £23.40 - £16.92
25th Percentile £28.13 - £21.34
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +130.77% -
75th Percentile £56.63 - £26.50
90th Percentile £69.00 - £40.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.23
% change year-on-year +34.44% +5.28% +12.82%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

AWS KMS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing AWS KMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 11 (68.75%) Confluence
2 7 (43.75%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon ELB
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon S3
2 11 (68.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (43.75%) Route 53
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) DNS
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
1 11 (68.75%) FTP
1 11 (68.75%) HTTP
1 11 (68.75%) SMTP
1 11 (68.75%) SSH
2 7 (43.75%) IMAP
2 7 (43.75%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (43.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (68.75%) Git
2 11 (68.75%) JIRA
2 11 (68.75%) Vagrant
3 5 (31.25%) GitLab
4 4 (25.00%) Liquibase
General
1 12 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (43.75%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (31.25%) Finance
5 4 (25.00%) Banking
5 4 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (68.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 11 (68.75%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (62.50%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (62.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 10 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (43.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (37.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (18.75%) AWS Software Engineer
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (18.75%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
7 2 (12.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 2 (12.50%) GCP Software Engineer
7 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
8 1 (6.25%) Senior
8 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) LDAP
2 5 (31.25%) REST
3 4 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Replication
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon Linux
2 11 (68.75%) VMS
2 11 (68.75%) Windows
3 7 (43.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (93.75%) Change Management
3 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (68.75%) Cloud Security
4 11 (68.75%) Configuration Management
4 11 (68.75%) Patch Management
4 11 (68.75%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (43.75%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (25.00%) Agile
7 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (25.00%) Cryptography
7 4 (25.00%) High Availability
7 4 (25.00%) Microservices
7 4 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (18.75%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) Groovy
2 11 (68.75%) PowerShell
3 7 (43.75%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) Go
5 4 (25.00%) Java
5 4 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (68.75%) Degree
2 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) AWS Certification
3 7 (43.75%) Azure Certification
4 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Docker
2 11 (68.75%) DFS Replication
3 7 (43.75%) Dovecot
3 7 (43.75%) Postfix
3 7 (43.75%) Squid
4 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Terraform
2 15 (93.75%) Grafana
2 15 (93.75%) Prometheus
3 7 (43.75%) Nessus
3 7 (43.75%) Proxmox
4 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (18.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) ServiceNow
2 7 (43.75%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft