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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 431 493
Rank change year-on-year -87 +62 +102
Contract jobs citing Route 53 58 51 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.52% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 30 51
10th Percentile £431 £518 £386
25th Percentile £463 £608 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.18% +35.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £570 £700 £638
90th Percentile £644 - £694
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £475
% change year-on-year -10.20% +28.95% -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 13,090 9,729 12,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.57% 37.49% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,022 6,531 9,016
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £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 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 147 309
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.14
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.28 £74.45 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £37.25 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.45% +25.00% -12.00%

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 20 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 20 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 -37 40 £534 -20.85% 8
West Midlands -38 13 £475 - 4
Midlands -48 13 £475 - 4
East of England - 6 £510 -
North of England -65 4 £521 -5.57% 3
Yorkshire -62 3 £518 -20.38%
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
2 11 (18.97%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (77.59%) Amazon S3
3 42 (72.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 37 (63.79%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (46.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (46.55%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (46.55%) Serverless
6 25 (43.10%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (34.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (32.76%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (24.14%) GitHub
10 13 (22.41%) Azure
11 11 (18.97%) AWS Direct Connect
11 11 (18.97%) AWS KMS
12 10 (17.24%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (17.24%) GCP
13 9 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (12.07%) Amazon ELB
15 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
16 4 (6.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 27 (46.55%) DNS
2 22 (37.93%) Firewall
3 18 (31.03%) VPN
4 11 (18.97%) TCP/IP
5 7 (12.07%) OpenVPN
6 6 (10.34%) BGP
6 6 (10.34%) OSPF
7 4 (6.90%) FTP
7 4 (6.90%) HTTP
7 4 (6.90%) IMAP
7 4 (6.90%) Kerberos
7 4 (6.90%) NGFW
7 4 (6.90%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (6.90%) SMTP
7 4 (6.90%) SSH
7 4 (6.90%) WAN
8 3 (5.17%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (5.17%) DHCP
8 3 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (5.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (25.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (24.14%) DynamoDB
5 8 (13.79%) MySQL
6 7 (12.07%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (8.62%) DocumentDB
8 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
8 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
8 4 (6.90%) Redis
9 3 (5.17%) Big Data
9 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
9 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
9 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
10 2 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (3.45%) Apache Hive
10 2 (3.45%) Impala
Development Applications
1 32 (55.17%) Jenkins
2 16 (27.59%) GitLab
3 13 (22.41%) Git
3 13 (22.41%) SonarQube
4 12 (20.69%) JIRA
5 7 (12.07%) Maven
6 6 (10.34%) Bitbucket
6 6 (10.34%) JUnit
6 6 (10.34%) Mockito
7 5 (8.62%) DbUnit
7 5 (8.62%) jMock
8 4 (6.90%) CircleCI
8 4 (6.90%) Vagrant
9 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket Server
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 30 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.07%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Games
7 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Architect
2 15 (25.86%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (22.41%) AWS Architect
4 12 (20.69%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Technical Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Administrator
8 4 (6.90%) Cloud Administrator
8 4 (6.90%) Java Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Lead
8 4 (6.90%) Network Architect
9 3 (5.17%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) LDAP
1 12 (20.69%) OpenID
2 11 (18.97%) REST
2 11 (18.97%) Spring
3 10 (17.24%) Hibernate
3 10 (17.24%) JPA
3 10 (17.24%) Spring Boot
3 10 (17.24%) Spring Cloud
4 8 (13.79%) Kafka
4 8 (13.79%) RESTful
5 7 (12.07%) AngularJS
5 7 (12.07%) SOAP
6 6 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (10.34%) Node.js
6 6 (10.34%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (10.34%) Spring Batch
6 6 (10.34%) Spring Integration
6 6 (10.34%) Web Services
7 5 (8.62%) OAuth2
7 5 (8.62%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 9 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.90%) Replication
4 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.17%) SCADA
4 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Linux
2 9 (15.52%) Windows
3 7 (12.07%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (6.90%) Ubuntu
4 4 (6.90%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (58.62%) DevOps
2 33 (56.90%) CI/CD
3 28 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (41.38%) Containerisation
5 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (29.31%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (22.41%) Observability
8 12 (20.69%) Roadmaps
9 11 (18.97%) Cost Optimisation
9 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (17.24%) Mentoring
10 10 (17.24%) Microservices
11 9 (15.52%) Auto-Scaling
11 9 (15.52%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (15.52%) Decision-Making
12 8 (13.79%) Agile
12 8 (13.79%) Load Balancing
12 8 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (12.07%) Network Load Balancing
13 7 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) Python
2 12 (20.69%) SQL
3 11 (18.97%) Java
4 8 (13.79%) Bash
5 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.62%) Go
6 5 (8.62%) Groovy
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.72%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 24 (41.38%) SC Cleared
1 24 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.59%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 5 (8.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Degree
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.72%) JNCIA
7 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 34 (58.62%) Docker
2 11 (18.97%) Squid
3 8 (13.79%) Postfix
4 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
5 4 (6.90%) DFS Replication
5 4 (6.90%) Dovecot
6 2 (3.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (68.97%) Terraform
2 21 (36.21%) Grafana
2 21 (36.21%) Prometheus
3 20 (34.48%) Kubernetes
4 10 (17.24%) Ansible
5 7 (12.07%) FortiGate
5 7 (12.07%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (10.34%) Consul
7 5 (8.62%) Nessus
8 4 (6.90%) Proxmox
9 3 (5.17%) HAProxy
9 3 (5.17%) Packer
9 3 (5.17%) Stealthwatch
10 2 (3.45%) Argo
10 2 (3.45%) Karpenter
10 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.72%) Nagios
11 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Atlassian
1 11 (18.97%) Splunk
2 10 (17.24%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (12.07%) Dynatrace
3 7 (12.07%) Red Hat
4 6 (10.34%) AVEVA
5 4 (6.90%) Cloudera
5 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
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%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.72%) Tenable