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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 436 499
Rank change year-on-year -49 +63 +117
Contract jobs citing Route 53 58 53 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.54% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 53
10th Percentile £431 £504 £415
25th Percentile £470 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £675 £530
Median % change year-on-year -22.70% +27.36% -5.78%
75th Percentile £584 £700 £675
90th Percentile £644 - £694
UK median daily rate £550 £582 £525
% change year-on-year -5.50% +10.86% -4.55%

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 12,432 9,835 12,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.80% 37.12% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,617 6,513 9,250
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 142 298
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.57
Median hourly rate £33.32 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £45.89 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.48 £68.75 £66.29
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +19.09% +20.88% -5.21%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -23 39 £519 -23.18% 6
West Midlands -36 10 £475 - 6
North of England -53 10 £525 -4.89%
Midlands -53 10 £475 - 6
East of England - 6 £510 - 2
North West -22 5 £575 -
Yorkshire -49 4 £509 -21.73%
North East -16 1 £575 +26.65%
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 12 (20.69%) Confluence
1 12 (20.69%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (72.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 40 (68.97%) Amazon S3
4 37 (63.79%) Amazon EC2
5 30 (51.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 30 (51.72%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (51.72%) Serverless
6 28 (48.28%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (41.38%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (36.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (34.48%) GitHub
10 16 (27.59%) Azure
11 15 (25.86%) GCP
12 11 (18.97%) AWS Direct Connect
13 10 (17.24%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (15.52%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (13.79%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (13.79%) AWS KMS
15 8 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (46.55%) DNS
2 23 (39.66%) Firewall
3 16 (27.59%) VPN
4 8 (13.79%) TCP/IP
5 7 (12.07%) FTP
5 7 (12.07%) HTTP
5 7 (12.07%) IMAP
5 7 (12.07%) OpenLDAP
5 7 (12.07%) SMTP
5 7 (12.07%) SSH
6 6 (10.34%) BGP
6 6 (10.34%) OSPF
7 5 (8.62%) OpenVPN
8 4 (6.90%) Kerberos
8 4 (6.90%) NGFW
8 4 (6.90%) WAN
9 3 (5.17%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (5.17%) DHCP
9 3 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (5.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (55.17%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (37.93%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (29.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (22.41%) DynamoDB
4 13 (22.41%) MySQL
5 9 (15.52%) NoSQL
5 9 (15.52%) Redis
6 8 (13.79%) Relational Database
7 5 (8.62%) BigQuery
7 5 (8.62%) DocumentDB
7 5 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (8.62%) RDBMS
8 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
9 3 (5.17%) Big Data
9 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
9 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
10 2 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (3.45%) Apache Hive
10 2 (3.45%) Impala
Development Applications
1 35 (60.34%) Jenkins
2 17 (29.31%) GitLab
3 15 (25.86%) Git
4 12 (20.69%) JIRA
5 11 (18.97%) SonarQube
6 7 (12.07%) Vagrant
7 6 (10.34%) Maven
8 5 (8.62%) Bitbucket
8 5 (8.62%) Gradle
8 5 (8.62%) SonarLint
9 4 (6.90%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.72%) AppScan
10 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.72%) Burp Suite
10 1 (1.72%) Metasploit
10 1 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 34 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.07%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Finance
6 3 (5.17%) Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Advertising
7 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Games
8 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Architect
2 19 (32.76%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Cloud Architect
3 12 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) AWS Architect
5 10 (17.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Technical Architect
6 9 (15.52%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (15.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Java Architect
7 5 (8.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Java Technical Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Administrator
8 4 (6.90%) Cloud Administrator
8 4 (6.90%) Network Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Network Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Network Services Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.41%) LDAP
2 10 (17.24%) OpenID
2 10 (17.24%) RESTful
3 9 (15.52%) Spring Boot
4 8 (13.79%) Kafka
5 6 (10.34%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (8.62%) Dropwizard
6 5 (8.62%) J2EE
6 5 (8.62%) JWT
6 5 (8.62%) Micronaut
6 5 (8.62%) OAuth
6 5 (8.62%) OAuth2
6 5 (8.62%) REST
6 5 (8.62%) Spring
7 4 (6.90%) Celery
7 4 (6.90%) gRPC
7 4 (6.90%) Hibernate
7 4 (6.90%) JPA
7 4 (6.90%) JSON
7 4 (6.90%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.31%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.79%) Product Ownership
3 7 (12.07%) Replication
4 5 (8.62%) N-Tier
5 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.17%) SCADA
6 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.72%) NHS
8 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Linux
1 12 (20.69%) Windows
2 10 (17.24%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (12.07%) Ubuntu
3 7 (12.07%) VMS
4 1 (1.72%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (63.79%) CI/CD
2 31 (53.45%) DevOps
3 29 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (41.38%) Containerisation
5 21 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (27.59%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (22.41%) Roadmaps
9 12 (20.69%) Mentoring
9 12 (20.69%) Observability
10 11 (18.97%) Cost Optimisation
10 11 (18.97%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (17.24%) Cloud Security
11 10 (17.24%) OWASP
11 10 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (15.52%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (15.52%) Configuration Management
12 9 (15.52%) Domain-Driven Design
12 9 (15.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (15.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 37 (63.79%) Python
2 11 (18.97%) SQL
3 10 (17.24%) Java
4 9 (15.52%) Bash
4 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
5 8 (13.79%) Groovy
6 5 (8.62%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.72%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 21 (36.21%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.76%) SC Cleared
3 17 (29.31%) AWS Certification
4 7 (12.07%) Azure Certification
4 7 (12.07%) Degree
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.72%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.72%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (8.62%) NIST
1 5 (8.62%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.90%) QA
3 3 (5.17%) GDPR
4 2 (3.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.72%) COBIT
5 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (63.79%) Docker
2 12 (20.69%) Squid
3 7 (12.07%) DFS Replication
3 7 (12.07%) Dovecot
3 7 (12.07%) Postfix
4 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (81.03%) Terraform
2 23 (39.66%) Kubernetes
2 23 (39.66%) Prometheus
3 17 (29.31%) Grafana
4 10 (17.24%) Ansible
5 8 (13.79%) Nessus
6 7 (12.07%) Proxmox
7 5 (8.62%) Consul
7 5 (8.62%) FortiGate
7 5 (8.62%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (5.17%) HAProxy
8 3 (5.17%) Packer
8 3 (5.17%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (3.45%) Argo
9 2 (3.45%) Karpenter
9 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.72%) Nagios
10 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Splunk
2 7 (12.07%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (12.07%) ServiceNow
3 6 (10.34%) AVEVA
4 5 (8.62%) Atlassian
4 5 (8.62%) Dynatrace
4 5 (8.62%) Gigya
4 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.90%) Cloudera
6 3 (5.17%) Cisco
6 3 (5.17%) Fortinet
6 3 (5.17%) Infoblox
6 3 (5.17%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.45%) Databricks
7 2 (3.45%) Globalscape
7 2 (3.45%) Google
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.45%) SAP
7 2 (3.45%) Solace
8 1 (1.72%) Tenable