Route 53 Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 480 494
Rank change year-on-year -114 +14 +48
Contract jobs citing Route 53 44 41 40
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.095% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 21
10th Percentile £438 £420 -
25th Percentile £504 £475 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -7.06% +2.48%
75th Percentile £596 £583 £575
90th Percentile £666 £695 £609
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.42% +2.48%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,949 10,519 11,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.44% 37.87% 34.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,632 7,122 7,740
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 247 174
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Route 53 job vacancy trend in England

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Route 53
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Route 53 in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Route 53 in England

Route 53
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Route 53.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Route 53

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
London -81 18 £575 +4.55% 21
South East -51 12 £568 +13.60% 3
Midlands -60 11 £477 +0.42% 1
West Midlands -58 10 £477 +0.42%
East of England -27 1 - - 3
North of England -71 1 £425 -26.09% 8
North East - 1 £425 - 1
South West - 1 £450 - 4
Route 53
UK

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (6.82%) nginx
3 2 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (59.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 25 (56.82%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (54.55%) Amazon S3
5 22 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (43.18%) Azure
7 14 (31.82%) Serverless
8 13 (29.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (29.55%) AWS KMS
9 12 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (27.27%) GitHub
10 11 (25.00%) GCP
11 10 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (20.45%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (15.91%) AWS Direct Connect
14 6 (13.64%) AWS CloudTrail
15 5 (11.36%) Amazon ECR
16 4 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.09%) DNS
2 11 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 10 (22.73%) DNSSEC
3 10 (22.73%) Firewall
4 8 (18.18%) DHCP
5 7 (15.91%) Network Security
6 3 (6.82%) VPN
7 2 (4.55%) FTP
7 2 (4.55%) HTTP
7 2 (4.55%) HTTPS
7 2 (4.55%) IMAP
7 2 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (4.55%) SMTP
7 2 (4.55%) SSH
8 1 (2.27%) BIG-IP
8 1 (2.27%) LAN
8 1 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (2.27%) SSL
8 1 (2.27%) VLAN
8 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (31.82%) Amazon Aurora
2 14 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (22.73%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 20 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 19 (43.18%) Git
3 10 (22.73%) Maven
3 10 (22.73%) SonarQube
4 9 (20.45%) JUnit
4 9 (20.45%) Mockito
5 8 (18.18%) GitLab
6 7 (15.91%) DbUnit
7 6 (13.64%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (13.64%) jMock
8 4 (9.09%) JIRA
9 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (4.55%) Vagrant
10 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
General
1 14 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Public Sector
3 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Military
6 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) Architect
2 9 (20.45%) Developer
2 9 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Java Developer
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 8 (18.18%) AWS Architect
3 8 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (15.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Technical Architect
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Lead
9 2 (4.55%) Network Architect
9 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (59.09%) Terraform
2 10 (22.73%) RESTful
3 9 (20.45%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (20.45%) Hibernate
3 9 (20.45%) JPA
3 9 (20.45%) SOAP
3 9 (20.45%) Spring
3 9 (20.45%) Spring Batch
3 9 (20.45%) Spring Boot
3 9 (20.45%) Spring Integration
3 9 (20.45%) Web Services
4 8 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 8 (18.18%) REST
5 7 (15.91%) Spring Cloud
6 6 (13.64%) Bootstrap
6 6 (13.64%) PowerMock
7 4 (9.09%) Node.js
7 4 (9.09%) SAML
8 3 (6.82%) OpenID
8 3 (6.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (15.91%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.82%) Replication
4 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (20.45%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.27%) VMS
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (52.27%) CI/CD
2 23 (52.27%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 14 (31.82%) Microservices
5 13 (29.55%) Agile
6 11 (25.00%) High Availability
6 11 (25.00%) Load Balancing
6 11 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (22.73%) Scrum
7 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (20.45%) DDoS Mitigation
8 9 (20.45%) Decision-Making
8 9 (20.45%) Kanban
8 9 (20.45%) TDD
9 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) Python
2 18 (40.91%) Bash
3 14 (31.82%) PowerShell
4 12 (27.27%) SQL
5 9 (20.45%) Java
6 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.55%) Groovy
8 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (65.91%) SC Cleared
1 29 (65.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 5 (11.36%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.82%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Docker
2 7 (15.91%) Postfix
3 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.55%) DFS Replication
4 2 (4.55%) Dovecot
4 2 (4.55%) Squid
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (45.45%) Grafana
2 15 (34.09%) Prometheus
3 11 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 9 (20.45%) Ansible
5 2 (4.55%) Nessus
5 2 (4.55%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.27%) Argo
6 1 (2.27%) Istio
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.27%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) systemd
6 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) Infoblox
2 10 (22.73%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (20.45%) Google
4 7 (15.91%) Atlassian
5 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.55%) Splunk
7 1 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco
7 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.27%) F5
7 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.27%) Sonatype
7 1 (2.27%) TOWER Software