Route 53 Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 92 104
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 +14
Contract jobs citing Route 53 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.091% 0.080% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.27% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £663 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +22.73% -
75th Percentile - £688 £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £563 £550 £490
% change year-on-year +2.27% +12.24% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 484 368 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.12% 29.56% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 204 148
10th Percentile £193 £200 £218
25th Percentile £375 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £423
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +18.34% -6.11%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £555
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 44 48
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.74 £16.30 £14.46
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.28 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +30.55% -24.73%
75th Percentile £55.13 £44.36 £21.37
90th Percentile £65.63 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £37.24 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.23% +18.18% -33.33%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Route 53 job vacancy trend in the East of England

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Route 53.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Route 53

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 31 July 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
Cambridgeshire +7 2 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Route 53
England

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) TOWER Software