AWS Control Tower Contract Job Trends in the North of England

AWS Control Tower
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring AWS Control Tower skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 192 172
Rank change year-on-year -70 -20 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Control Tower 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.026% 0.024% 0.024%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.078% 0.065% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £410 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £420 £600
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £430 £625
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £658 £538
% change year-on-year -8.75% +22.33% -2.27%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

AWS Control Tower 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,571 1,543 1,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.14% 36.89% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,648 1,101 848
10th Percentile £300 £273 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -7.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 32 25
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £12.12
25th Percentile £28.50 £15.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £18.94 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +243.28% -31.15% -14.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.03 £70.80
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

AWS Control Tower
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Control Tower relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

AWS Control Tower job vacancy trend in the North of England

AWS Control Tower
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AWS Control Tower.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Control Tower within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 - - 1
AWS Control Tower
England

AWS Control Tower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST