AWS Control Tower Contracts

AWS Control Tower
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring AWS Control Tower skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Control Tower over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 551 635
Rank change year-on-year +3 +84 +189
DemandTrendContract jobs citing AWS Control Tower 7 22 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.057% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.058% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 17
10th Percentile £418 £457 £420
25th Percentile £444 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -16.67% -9.77%
75th Percentile £713 £544 £650
90th Percentile £738 £620 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -12.92% -14.29% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,148 13,083 18,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.08% 33.69% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,105 9,036 13,408
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £748 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 224 348
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £17.80 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.13
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -23.13% +66.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.35 £70.00 £78.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -14.23% -18.52% +42.11%

AWS Control Tower
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Control Tower as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Control Tower in the UK

AWS Control Tower
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Control Tower.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Control Tower over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Control Tower in the UK

AWS Control Tower
Top 8 DemandTrendContract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +13 4 £463 -7.50% 5
England -10 4 £675 +28.57% 7
UK excluding London +8 3 £523 -12.92% 3
London +21 2 £725 +38.10% 7
North of England -21 1 £420 -30.00%
North East - 1 £420 -
South West - 1 £625 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

AWS Control Tower
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Information Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) ISMS
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GRC
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) IASME
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft