Route 53 Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 58 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Route 53 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.82% 0.34% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 0.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - £398

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

Route 53 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 294 224 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.59% 38.42% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 172 174
10th Percentile £313 £191 £254
25th Percentile £421 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £588
90th Percentile £679 £698 £685
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £21.20 - £14.03
25th Percentile £22.63 - £17.04
Median hourly rate £25.00 £60.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +130.77% +67.85%
75th Percentile £51.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £66.80 - £37.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.95
% change year-on-year +34.44% +1.45% +21.94%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Route 53 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Route 53 job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Route 53.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Route 53

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (71.43%) Confluence
2 3 (42.86%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS KMS
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) FTP
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
1 3 (42.86%) IMAP
1 3 (42.86%) OpenLDAP
1 3 (42.86%) SMTP
1 3 (42.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (57.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) JIRA
3 4 (57.14%) JUnit
3 4 (57.14%) Maven
3 4 (57.14%) Mockito
3 4 (57.14%) SonarQube
4 3 (42.86%) DbUnit
4 3 (42.86%) jMock
4 3 (42.86%) Vagrant
5 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 7 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (57.14%) AngularJS
1 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
1 4 (57.14%) JPA
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
1 4 (57.14%) REST
1 4 (57.14%) SOAP
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Batch
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Cloud
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Integration
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 3 (42.86%) LDAP
2 3 (42.86%) PowerMock
3 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
2 3 (42.86%) VMS
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) BPMN
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) Biometrics
4 3 (42.86%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
4 3 (42.86%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
4 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) BDD
5 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Groovy
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) AWS Certification
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Certification
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
2 6 (85.71%) Postfix
3 3 (42.86%) DFS Replication
3 3 (42.86%) Dovecot
3 3 (42.86%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Nessus
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
2 3 (42.86%) Proxmox
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
2 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow