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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 423 473
Rank change year-on-year -105 +50 +128
Contract jobs citing Route 53 60 45 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.50% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 31 50
10th Percentile £425 £500 £376
25th Percentile £473 £534 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £518
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +21.74% -3.72%
75th Percentile £601 £688 £575
90th Percentile £630 £700 £694
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £503
% change year-on-year -4.35% +14.43% -8.64%

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 14,332 8,992 11,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.19% 37.16% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,816 6,239 8,405
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.97% -1.97% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 195 324
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.40 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%
75th Percentile £67.67 £38.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.51% +28.69% -38.94%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -54 37 £563 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -50 17 £475 -5.00% 1
Midlands -55 17 £475 -5.00% 1
East of England - 7 £525 -
South West -30 1 £450 -30.77%
North West - 1 £420 - 2
North of England - 1 £420 - 2
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 9 (15.00%) Confluence
1 9 (15.00%) nginx
2 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (73.33%) Amazon S3
3 40 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
4 36 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 28 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (41.67%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (40.00%) Serverless
8 18 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (28.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (26.67%) Azure
11 15 (25.00%) AWS KMS
12 10 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (15.00%) GitHub
13 9 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (13.33%) GCP
15 6 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
16 4 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 4 (6.67%) Amazon MSK
16 4 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 26 (43.33%) DNS
2 18 (30.00%) Firewall
3 17 (28.33%) VPN
4 14 (23.33%) TCP/IP
5 9 (15.00%) OpenVPN
6 8 (13.33%) BGP
7 7 (11.67%) OSPF
8 4 (6.67%) DHCP
8 4 (6.67%) Network Security
8 4 (6.67%) NGFW
8 4 (6.67%) WAN
8 4 (6.67%) Wireless
9 3 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (3.33%) Kerberos
10 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.67%) Anycast
11 1 (1.67%) EIGRP
11 1 (1.67%) IPsec
11 1 (1.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (43.33%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (31.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (31.67%) DynamoDB
4 9 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (10.00%) MySQL
6 4 (6.67%) DocumentDB
6 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.67%) Redis
7 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.33%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.33%) Big Data
8 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.33%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.33%) Impala
8 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 29 (48.33%) Jenkins
2 21 (35.00%) SonarQube
3 15 (25.00%) Git
4 14 (23.33%) JUnit
4 14 (23.33%) Maven
4 14 (23.33%) Mockito
5 13 (21.67%) GitLab
6 11 (18.33%) DbUnit
6 11 (18.33%) jMock
7 9 (15.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 9 (15.00%) JIRA
8 7 (11.67%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.33%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.67%) AppScan
10 1 (1.67%) Burp Suite
10 1 (1.67%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (31.67%) Public Sector
3 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Advertising
5 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Games
6 1 (1.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (43.33%) Architect
2 15 (25.00%) AWS Architect
3 14 (23.33%) Developer
3 14 (23.33%) Java Developer
4 12 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Technical Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Senior
6 5 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Java Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Lead
7 4 (6.67%) Network Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Administrator
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Network Services Manager
8 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) Hibernate
1 18 (30.00%) JPA
1 18 (30.00%) REST
1 18 (30.00%) Spring
1 18 (30.00%) Spring Boot
1 18 (30.00%) Spring Cloud
2 14 (23.33%) ActiveMQ
2 14 (23.33%) AngularJS
2 14 (23.33%) SOAP
2 14 (23.33%) Spring Batch
2 14 (23.33%) Spring Integration
2 14 (23.33%) Web Services
3 13 (21.67%) OpenID
3 13 (21.67%) RESTful
4 11 (18.33%) PowerMock
5 10 (16.67%) Node.js
6 9 (15.00%) Bootstrap
6 9 (15.00%) LDAP
7 6 (10.00%) Kafka
8 5 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (18.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Replication
3 3 (5.00%) SCADA
3 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) DevOps
2 28 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 24 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 21 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 18 (30.00%) Microservices
5 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (28.33%) Performance Tuning
6 17 (28.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (26.67%) Roadmaps
8 14 (23.33%) Agile
8 14 (23.33%) Scrum
8 14 (23.33%) TDD
9 12 (20.00%) Kanban
9 12 (20.00%) Observability
10 11 (18.33%) Open Source
11 10 (16.67%) BPMN
12 9 (15.00%) BDD
12 9 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.67%) SQL
2 18 (30.00%) Java
3 15 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (6.67%) Bash
5 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (1.67%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 33 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (51.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (21.67%) AWS Certification
4 6 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) CCNP
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.67%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.67%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.33%) NIST
2 5 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) COBIT
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (48.33%) Docker
2 10 (16.67%) Postfix
3 9 (15.00%) Squid
4 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (55.00%) Terraform
2 24 (40.00%) Grafana
3 21 (35.00%) Kubernetes
4 19 (31.67%) Prometheus
5 9 (15.00%) FortiGate
5 9 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (13.33%) Ansible
7 7 (11.67%) Consul
8 3 (5.00%) HAProxy
8 3 (5.00%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (1.67%) Argo
9 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.67%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.67%) Nessus
9 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Atlassian
2 14 (23.33%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (15.00%) Dynatrace
3 9 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (10.00%) AVEVA
5 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.33%) Splunk
6 4 (6.67%) Cisco
6 4 (6.67%) Infoblox
6 4 (6.67%) Palo Alto
7 3 (5.00%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.33%) Cloudera
8 2 (3.33%) Databricks
8 2 (3.33%) Globalscape
8 2 (3.33%) Google
8 2 (3.33%) SAP
8 2 (3.33%) Solace
9 1 (1.67%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.67%) jetNEXUS
9 1 (1.67%) Tenable