AWS Control Tower Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

AWS Control Tower
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring AWS Control Tower skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Control Tower 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.21% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +17.07% -10.87% -5.43%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 795 518 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.67% 33.08% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 342 405
10th Percentile £302 £200 £213
25th Percentile £413 £375 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -9.31%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £684 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 10
10th Percentile £24.43 £15.95 £17.73
25th Percentile - £17.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +5.28% +16.52%
75th Percentile £33.00 £34.69 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.50 £35.00 £29.35
England median hourly rate £30.25 £27.50 £23.23
% change year-on-year +10.00% +18.39% -3.22%

AWS Control Tower
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

AWS Control Tower job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

AWS Control Tower
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 Control Tower within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 January 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
Coventry - 3 £413 - 1
Birmingham - 1 - -
AWS Control Tower
England

AWS Control Tower
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Consultant
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (60.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) NIST
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft