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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 81 109
Rank change year-on-year -26 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Route 53 7 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.31% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 0.32% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £473 £663 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £550 £688 £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £578 £505
% change year-on-year -4.76% +14.36% -3.81%

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 462 316 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.66% 32.58% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 186 162
10th Percentile £194 £208 £221
25th Percentile £400 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £501 £451
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +11.08% +0.28%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £573
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 60
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.61 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.72 £18.31 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% +12.33% -25.91%
75th Percentile £55.25 £22.40 £21.37
90th Percentile £72.00 £36.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +58.00% +16.99% -38.94%

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 1 June 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 +8 5 £495 -26.67%
Norfolk - 2 £550 -
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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) 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%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) 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%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
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%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
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%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) HAProxy
2 3 (42.86%) Stealthwatch
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
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%) TOWER Software