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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 422 489
Rank change year-on-year -82 +67 +113
Contract jobs citing Route 53 63 53 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 0.55% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 32 51
10th Percentile £436 £461 £386
25th Percentile £463 £563 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.70% +35.00% -10.11%
75th Percentile £591 £700 £638
90th Percentile £639 - £694
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £475
% change year-on-year -6.78% +24.21% -13.64%

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 13,196 9,555 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.37% 37.74% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,101 6,485 8,919
10th Percentile £309 £313 £272
25th Percentile £408 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 149 323
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.15
25th Percentile £20.31 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.28 £74.10 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.62% +26.93% -14.52%

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 2 March 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 2 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
London -34 42 £550 -18.52% 7
West Midlands -44 13 £475 - 4
Midlands -53 13 £475 - 4
East of England - 7 £510 -
North of England -61 4 £521 -5.57% 6
Yorkshire -60 3 £518 -20.38% 1
North East -12 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 10 (15.87%) Confluence
2 9 (14.29%) nginx
3 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (73.02%) Amazon S3
3 41 (65.08%) Amazon EC2
3 41 (65.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 30 (47.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 28 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (44.44%) Serverless
6 27 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (36.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (25.40%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (23.81%) GitHub
10 14 (22.22%) Azure
11 13 (20.63%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (19.05%) AWS Direct Connect
13 11 (17.46%) AWS KMS
13 11 (17.46%) GCP
14 10 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (6.35%) Amazon MSK
15 4 (6.35%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (6.35%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 28 (44.44%) DNS
2 21 (33.33%) Firewall
3 20 (31.75%) VPN
4 12 (19.05%) TCP/IP
5 8 (12.70%) OpenVPN
6 7 (11.11%) BGP
7 6 (9.52%) OSPF
8 4 (6.35%) Kerberos
8 4 (6.35%) NGFW
8 4 (6.35%) WAN
9 3 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (4.76%) DHCP
9 3 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (4.76%) Wireless
10 2 (3.17%) Network Security
10 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.59%) Anycast
11 1 (1.59%) IMAP
11 1 (1.59%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (1.59%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (46.03%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (31.75%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (26.98%) DynamoDB
4 15 (23.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (12.70%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (12.70%) MySQL
6 5 (7.94%) DocumentDB
7 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
7 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
7 4 (6.35%) Redis
8 3 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (4.76%) Big Data
8 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
8 3 (4.76%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (3.17%) Apache Hive
9 2 (3.17%) Impala
Development Applications
1 33 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 17 (26.98%) GitLab
2 17 (26.98%) SonarQube
3 13 (20.63%) Git
4 10 (15.87%) JIRA
4 10 (15.87%) Maven
5 9 (14.29%) JUnit
5 9 (14.29%) Mockito
6 7 (11.11%) Bitbucket
6 7 (11.11%) DbUnit
6 7 (11.11%) jMock
7 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (6.35%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.59%) AppScan
9 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.59%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.59%) Metasploit
9 1 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.59%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (46.03%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.70%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Finance
6 3 (4.76%) Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Advertising
7 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Games
8 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) Architect
2 13 (20.63%) AWS Architect
2 13 (20.63%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (19.05%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (14.29%) Developer
4 9 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 8 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Technical Architect
7 5 (7.94%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (7.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Administrator
8 4 (6.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Cloud Administrator
8 4 (6.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Java Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Lead
8 4 (6.35%) Network Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Network Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) REST
1 14 (22.22%) Spring
2 13 (20.63%) Hibernate
2 13 (20.63%) JPA
2 13 (20.63%) OpenID
2 13 (20.63%) Spring Boot
2 13 (20.63%) Spring Cloud
3 10 (15.87%) AngularJS
3 10 (15.87%) LDAP
3 10 (15.87%) RESTful
3 10 (15.87%) SOAP
4 9 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (14.29%) Spring Batch
4 9 (14.29%) Spring Integration
4 9 (14.29%) Web Services
5 8 (12.70%) Kafka
5 8 (12.70%) Node.js
6 7 (11.11%) PowerMock
7 6 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (7.94%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (17.46%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.35%) Replication
4 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.76%) SCADA
4 3 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
6 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) Linux
2 8 (12.70%) Windows
3 4 (6.35%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.59%) VMS
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (57.14%) DevOps
2 33 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 29 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 20 (31.75%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (26.98%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (22.22%) Observability
8 13 (20.63%) Microservices
8 13 (20.63%) Roadmaps
8 13 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (19.05%) Decision-Making
10 11 (17.46%) Cost Optimisation
11 10 (15.87%) Agile
11 10 (15.87%) Mentoring
12 9 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
12 9 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (14.29%) Scrum
12 9 (14.29%) TDD
13 8 (12.70%) BPMN
13 8 (12.70%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) Python
2 15 (23.81%) SQL
3 14 (22.22%) Java
4 8 (12.70%) Bash
5 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.94%) Go
7 2 (3.17%) Groovy
8 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.59%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 29 (46.03%) Security Cleared
2 28 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (23.81%) AWS Certification
4 6 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.94%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.59%) CCNP
8 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.59%) Degree
8 1 (1.59%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.59%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (7.94%) NIST
1 5 (7.94%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.35%) QA
3 3 (4.76%) GDPR
4 2 (3.17%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.59%) COBIT
5 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (55.56%) Docker
2 9 (14.29%) Squid
3 7 (11.11%) Postfix
4 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.17%) HDFS
6 1 (1.59%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.59%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 42 (66.67%) Terraform
2 22 (34.92%) Grafana
2 22 (34.92%) Kubernetes
3 20 (31.75%) Prometheus
4 10 (15.87%) Ansible
5 8 (12.70%) FortiGate
5 8 (12.70%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (11.11%) Consul
7 3 (4.76%) HAProxy
7 3 (4.76%) Packer
7 3 (4.76%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (3.17%) Argo
8 2 (3.17%) Karpenter
8 2 (3.17%) Nessus
8 2 (3.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.59%) Nagios
9 1 (1.59%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 11 (17.46%) Splunk
3 10 (15.87%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (12.70%) Dynatrace
4 8 (12.70%) Red Hat
5 6 (9.52%) AVEVA
6 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
7 4 (6.35%) Cloudera
8 3 (4.76%) Cisco
8 3 (4.76%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.76%) Google
8 3 (4.76%) Infoblox
8 3 (4.76%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.17%) Databricks
9 2 (3.17%) Globalscape
9 2 (3.17%) SAP
9 2 (3.17%) Solace
10 1 (1.59%) BeyondTrust
10 1 (1.59%) jetNEXUS
10 1 (1.59%) Tenable