AWS KMS Contracts in the West Midlands

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring AWS KMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS KMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS KMS 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £505 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.46% +2.50% -23.08%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing AWS KMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS KMS in the West Midlands

AWS KMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS KMS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS KMS in the West Midlands

AWS KMS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS KMS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Solihull - 3 £500 -
Birmingham - 1 - -
AWS KMS
England

AWS KMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Mockito
2 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (50.00%) DbUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) jMock
2 3 (50.00%) Maven
2 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) JPA
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) PowerMock
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) SOAP
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Integration
2 3 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) Kanban
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (50.00%) Jaspersoft