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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 438 499
Rank change year-on-year -91 +61 +89
Contract jobs citing Route 53 68 51 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.55% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 44
10th Percentile £448 £490 £367
25th Percentile £477 £513 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +14.43% -4.29%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £592
90th Percentile £653 £700 £694
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £469
% change year-on-year - +17.33% -12.79%

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 14,961 9,318 12,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.78% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,143 6,346 8,595
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £511 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.59% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 228 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.68 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.25 £21.64
% change year-on-year +30.97% +30.55% -38.17%

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 14 June 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 14 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
London -69 39 £563 -15.09% 3
Midlands -48 21 £476 -4.80%
West Midlands -46 20 £476 -4.80%
East of England -22 7 £525 -22.22%
South East -62 3 £533 +6.50% 3
South West -24 1 £450 -30.77%
North West - 1 £420 - 1
North of England - 1 £420 - 1
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 11 (16.18%) Confluence
2 9 (13.24%) nginx
3 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (69.12%) Amazon S3
3 44 (64.71%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (57.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 39 (57.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 29 (42.65%) Amazon EKS
5 29 (42.65%) Serverless
6 27 (39.71%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (32.35%) Amazon SQS
8 18 (26.47%) AWS KMS
9 16 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (23.53%) Azure
10 14 (20.59%) GitHub
11 11 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (10.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 7 (10.29%) AWS Control Tower
13 7 (10.29%) AWS Direct Connect
14 6 (8.82%) AWS CloudTrail
14 6 (8.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (38.24%) DNS
2 17 (25.00%) Firewall
3 14 (20.59%) TCP/IP
3 14 (20.59%) VPN
4 9 (13.24%) OpenVPN
5 8 (11.76%) BGP
5 8 (11.76%) Network Security
6 7 (10.29%) OSPF
7 4 (5.88%) DHCP
7 4 (5.88%) NGFW
7 4 (5.88%) WAN
7 4 (5.88%) Wireless
8 3 (4.41%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.94%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.47%) Anycast
10 1 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (1.47%) DMVPN
10 1 (1.47%) IPsec
10 1 (1.47%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (48.53%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (36.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 25 (36.76%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (32.35%) DynamoDB
4 9 (13.24%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (7.35%) MySQL
6 4 (5.88%) DocumentDB
6 4 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.88%) Redis
7 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 26 (38.24%) SonarQube
3 23 (33.82%) Git
4 18 (26.47%) JUnit
4 18 (26.47%) Maven
4 18 (26.47%) Mockito
5 14 (20.59%) DbUnit
6 13 (19.12%) GitLab
6 13 (19.12%) jMock
7 11 (16.18%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (16.18%) JIRA
8 7 (10.29%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.47%) AppScan
9 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.47%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.47%) Metasploit
9 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (35.29%) Public Sector
1 24 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.24%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Advertising
5 2 (2.94%) Finance
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Games
6 1 (1.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (45.59%) Architect
2 21 (30.88%) AWS Architect
3 18 (26.47%) Developer
3 18 (26.47%) Java Developer
4 11 (16.18%) Cloud Architect
4 11 (16.18%) Technical Architect
5 8 (11.76%) Senior
6 7 (10.29%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Network Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (7.35%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (7.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Lead
8 5 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Java Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Network Architect
10 3 (4.41%) Lead Network Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.35%) Hibernate
1 22 (32.35%) JPA
1 22 (32.35%) Spring
1 22 (32.35%) Spring Boot
2 21 (30.88%) REST
3 20 (29.41%) Spring Cloud
4 19 (27.94%) RESTful
5 18 (26.47%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (26.47%) SOAP
5 18 (26.47%) Spring Batch
5 18 (26.47%) Spring Integration
5 18 (26.47%) Web Services
6 17 (25.00%) AngularJS
7 16 (23.53%) OpenID
8 13 (19.12%) PowerMock
9 12 (17.65%) Node.js
10 11 (16.18%) Bootstrap
11 9 (13.24%) LDAP
12 7 (10.29%) OAuth
12 7 (10.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (20.59%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.41%) Replication
3 3 (4.41%) SCADA
3 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Linux
2 6 (8.82%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (61.76%) DevOps
2 36 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 29 (42.65%) Containerisation
4 26 (38.24%) Microservices
5 22 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (29.41%) Decision-Making
6 20 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (27.94%) Agile
7 19 (27.94%) Roadmaps
7 19 (27.94%) Scrum
8 18 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (26.47%) TDD
9 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (23.53%) Kanban
11 13 (19.12%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (19.12%) Open Source
12 12 (17.65%) BDD
12 12 (17.65%) BPMN
13 11 (16.18%) Observability
14 10 (14.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.82%) SQL
2 22 (32.35%) Java
3 17 (25.00%) Python
4 9 (13.24%) Bash
5 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) Go
7 1 (1.47%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 43 (63.24%) Security Cleared
2 41 (60.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (22.06%) AWS Certification
4 7 (10.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.82%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.47%) CCNP
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.47%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.47%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.35%) NIST
2 5 (7.35%) PCI DSS
2 5 (7.35%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) COBIT
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (48.53%) Docker
2 11 (16.18%) Postfix
3 9 (13.24%) Squid
4 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (51.47%) Terraform
2 33 (48.53%) Grafana
3 26 (38.24%) Kubernetes
4 24 (35.29%) Prometheus
5 10 (14.71%) Ansible
6 9 (13.24%) FortiGate
6 9 (13.24%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (10.29%) Consul
8 3 (4.41%) HAProxy
8 3 (4.41%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (2.94%) Argo
9 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (1.47%) Istio
10 1 (1.47%) Karpenter
10 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.47%) Nessus
10 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (30.88%) Atlassian
2 17 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (13.24%) Dynatrace
3 9 (13.24%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.82%) AVEVA
5 4 (5.88%) Cisco
5 4 (5.88%) Infoblox
5 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.88%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.88%) Splunk
6 3 (4.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.94%) Databricks
7 2 (2.94%) Globalscape
7 2 (2.94%) Google
7 2 (2.94%) SAP
7 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.94%) Solace
8 1 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.47%) jetNEXUS
8 1 (1.47%) Tenable