Route 53 Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Route 53 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £448
75th Percentile - - £486
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £420 - £663
% change year-on-year - - +26.19%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 252 138 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.39% 32.17% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 100 123
10th Percentile £340 £291 £267
25th Percentile £375 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% -10.53% -7.68%
75th Percentile £579 £568 £525
90th Percentile £647 £638 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.71% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 15
10th Percentile £15.50 - £17.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.05 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% +36.46% -16.43%
75th Percentile £25.31 - £43.75
90th Percentile £33.63 £56.17 -
North West median hourly rate £62.00 £28.75 £17.29
% change year-on-year +115.65% +66.33% -50.61%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Route 53 job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Route 53 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 March 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
Knutsford - 1 £420 -
Route 53
North West

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox