AWS KMS Job Trends in the Midlands

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring AWS KMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AWS KMS 11 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.14% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% -26.32%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,837 2,137 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.14% 31.84% 38.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,393 1,233 1,726
10th Percentile £27,780 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,350 £78,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

AWS KMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

AWS KMS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS KMS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS KMS

AWS KMS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS KMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
West Midlands - 11 £72,500 - 6
AWS KMS
England

AWS KMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (81.82%) Confluence
2 4 (36.36%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon Glacier
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (36.36%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
1 11 (100.00%) FTP
1 11 (100.00%) HTTP
1 11 (100.00%) SMTP
1 11 (100.00%) SSH
2 9 (81.82%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) IMAP
3 4 (36.36%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 11 (100.00%) Vagrant
2 9 (81.82%) Git
2 9 (81.82%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Subversion
4 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 7 (63.64%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) VMS
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (63.64%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 11 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Change Management
2 9 (81.82%) Patch Management
3 7 (63.64%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) OO
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 1 (9.09%) Servant Leadership
6 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Groovy
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) PowerShell
3 7 (63.64%) Java
3 7 (63.64%) Perl
4 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Certification
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Certification
3 5 (45.45%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
2 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) DFS Replication
3 4 (36.36%) Dovecot
3 4 (36.36%) Postfix
3 4 (36.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (81.82%) Grafana
2 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
3 4 (36.36%) Nessus
3 4 (36.36%) Proxmox
4 2 (18.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) ServiceNow
2 4 (36.36%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle