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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 483 524
Rank change year-on-year -8 +41 +97
Contract jobs citing Route 53 40 34 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.31% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 40
10th Percentile £411 £467 £450
25th Percentile £459 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +6.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £688 £578
90th Percentile £696 £693 £676
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

All Cloud 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 11,364 11,103 14,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 39.00% 35.59% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,681 7,378 10,432
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £534
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +0.09% -2.91%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 145 294
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.73 £14.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £44.01 £64.73 £59.69
90th Percentile £70.45 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +44.93%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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 22 £600 -2.04% 5
West Midlands -5 19 £475 -
Midlands -11 19 £475 -
North of England -32 6 £575 +26.65% 3
North West -10 5 £575 +76.92% 2
East of England - 2 £575 - 1
Yorkshire -29 1 £500 -23.08% 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 14 (35.00%) nginx
2 13 (32.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (72.50%) Amazon S3
4 28 (70.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 22 (55.00%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (55.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (47.50%) AWS KMS
7 15 (37.50%) Azure
8 12 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
8 12 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (30.00%) Serverless
9 11 (27.50%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (22.50%) GitHub
11 8 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (20.00%) GCP
12 7 (17.50%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (15.00%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (15.00%) Apigee
13 6 (15.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (37.50%) DNS
2 13 (32.50%) Firewall
3 12 (30.00%) IMAP
3 12 (30.00%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (30.00%) SMTP
3 12 (30.00%) SSH
4 10 (25.00%) FTP
4 10 (25.00%) HTTP
5 1 (2.50%) DHCP
5 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.50%) VLAN
5 1 (2.50%) VPN
5 1 (2.50%) VSAN
5 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (72.50%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (57.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 23 (57.50%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (27.50%) DynamoDB
4 7 (17.50%) MySQL
5 5 (12.50%) BigQuery
5 5 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 5 (12.50%) RDBMS
5 5 (12.50%) Redis
5 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (82.50%) Jenkins
2 27 (67.50%) Git
3 13 (32.50%) JIRA
4 12 (30.00%) Maven
4 12 (30.00%) SonarQube
4 12 (30.00%) Vagrant
5 11 (27.50%) GitLab
6 6 (15.00%) JUnit
7 5 (12.50%) Gradle
7 5 (12.50%) SonarLint
8 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (10.00%) DbUnit
8 4 (10.00%) jMock
8 4 (10.00%) Mockito
9 2 (5.00%) CircleCI
10 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
10 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (42.50%) Public Sector
3 10 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Games
6 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.50%) Police
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (35.00%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (35.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (30.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 12 (30.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 12 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 9 (22.50%) Architect
7 6 (15.00%) Developer
7 6 (15.00%) Java Developer
8 5 (12.50%) Java Architect
8 5 (12.50%) Java Technical Architect
8 5 (12.50%) Technical Architect
9 4 (10.00%) AWS Architect
10 3 (7.50%) AWS Solution Architect
10 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
11 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) LDAP
2 12 (30.00%) RESTful
3 11 (27.50%) Spring Boot
4 7 (17.50%) REST
4 7 (17.50%) Spring
5 6 (15.00%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (15.00%) Hibernate
5 6 (15.00%) JPA
5 6 (15.00%) SOAP
5 6 (15.00%) Spring Batch
5 6 (15.00%) Spring Integration
5 6 (15.00%) Web Services
6 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.50%) Dropwizard
6 5 (12.50%) J2EE
6 5 (12.50%) JWT
6 5 (12.50%) Micronaut
7 4 (10.00%) Bootstrap
7 4 (10.00%) PowerMock
7 4 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Replication
2 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.50%) N-Tier
4 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (50.00%) Linux
2 14 (35.00%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (30.00%) VMS
3 12 (30.00%) Windows
4 11 (27.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) CI/CD
1 27 (67.50%) DevOps
2 16 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (35.00%) Cloud Security
3 14 (35.00%) Configuration Management
4 13 (32.50%) Agile
4 13 (32.50%) Change Management
4 13 (32.50%) Patch Management
4 13 (32.50%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (27.50%) Microservices
6 11 (27.50%) TDD
7 9 (22.50%) BDD
8 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (15.00%) OWASP
10 6 (15.00%) Scrum
10 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (70.00%) Python
2 19 (47.50%) SQL
3 14 (35.00%) PowerShell
4 13 (32.50%) Groovy
5 12 (30.00%) Java
6 7 (17.50%) Bash
7 3 (7.50%) Go
8 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (57.50%) Security Cleared
2 21 (52.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 10 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 10 (25.00%) Degree
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 32 (80.00%) Docker
2 16 (40.00%) Postfix
3 12 (30.00%) Dovecot
3 12 (30.00%) Squid
4 10 (25.00%) DFS Replication
5 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (72.50%) Terraform
2 21 (52.50%) Prometheus
3 20 (50.00%) Grafana
4 16 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 12 (30.00%) Nessus
6 10 (25.00%) Proxmox
7 4 (10.00%) Ansible
8 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
8 2 (5.00%) Kibana
8 2 (5.00%) Packer
8 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (5.00%) Puppet
9 1 (2.50%) Argo
9 1 (2.50%) Karpenter
9 1 (2.50%) Nagios
9 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (12.50%) Gigya
4 4 (10.00%) Atlassian
5 3 (7.50%) Splunk
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.50%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.50%) Veeam
6 1 (2.50%) VMware