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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - 106
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Route 53 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.38% - 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% - 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £468 - £480
25th Percentile £473 - £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £523
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.40%
75th Percentile £547 - £542
90th Percentile £550 - £547
England median daily rate £522 £675 £513
% change year-on-year -22.70% +31.71% -7.87%

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 394 266 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.39% 25.68% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 159 202
10th Percentile £199 £205 £186
25th Percentile £358 £318 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -1.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £559
90th Percentile £694 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 53
10th Percentile £10.80 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.82 £14.48
Median hourly rate £21.72 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +7.30% +17.65%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.93 £35.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £72.13 £70.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.38 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.12% +28.10% -14.52%

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 3 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
Cambridgeshire - 4 £495 -
Norfolk - 3 £550 -
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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
4 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Advertising
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Network Services Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Service Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team Management
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Open Source
2 2 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
3 1 (14.29%) People Management
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) HAProxy
2 3 (42.86%) Stealthwatch
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
4 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (14.29%) Nagios
4 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Infoblox
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) jetNEXUS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SaltStack