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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 442 487
Rank change year-on-year -50 +45 +109
Contract jobs citing Route 53 43 50 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.51% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 49
10th Percentile £428 £465 £445
25th Percentile £450 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £628 £697 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £694
UK median daily rate £575 £554 £550
% change year-on-year +3.84% +0.68% -

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 11,846 9,889 12,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.06% 36.71% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,191 6,593 9,074
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 132 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.45 £65.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year - +20.88% +1.11%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -9 30 £600 -11.11% 5
West Midlands -26 10 £463 -
North of England -34 10 £525 -4.89% 1
Midlands -40 10 £463 -
North West -21 5 £575 - 1
Yorkshire -44 4 £509 -21.73%
North East -9 1 £575 +26.65%
East of England - 1 £475 - 3
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 (23.26%) Confluence
2 9 (20.93%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (74.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 31 (72.09%) Amazon S3
4 30 (69.77%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (62.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (62.79%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (51.16%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (51.16%) Serverless
7 21 (48.84%) GitHub
8 17 (39.53%) Azure
9 16 (37.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (32.56%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (30.23%) GCP
12 11 (25.58%) Amazon ELB
12 11 (25.58%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (23.26%) AWS KMS
14 9 (20.93%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (20.93%) AWS Direct Connect
14 9 (20.93%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (18.60%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (39.53%) DNS
2 16 (37.21%) Firewall
3 9 (20.93%) FTP
3 9 (20.93%) HTTP
3 9 (20.93%) IMAP
3 9 (20.93%) OpenLDAP
3 9 (20.93%) SMTP
3 9 (20.93%) SSH
4 8 (18.60%) VPN
5 4 (9.30%) Kerberos
6 3 (6.98%) BGP
6 3 (6.98%) NGFW
6 3 (6.98%) OSPF
6 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (6.98%) Wireless
7 1 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (72.09%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (55.81%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (44.19%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (30.23%) DynamoDB
5 12 (27.91%) MySQL
6 9 (20.93%) NoSQL
6 9 (20.93%) Redis
7 8 (18.60%) Relational Database
8 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
8 5 (11.63%) DocumentDB
8 5 (11.63%) RDBMS
9 3 (6.98%) Big Data
9 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
9 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
9 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
10 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
10 2 (4.65%) Impala
Development Applications
1 33 (76.74%) Jenkins
2 18 (41.86%) Git
3 17 (39.53%) GitLab
4 10 (23.26%) JIRA
5 9 (20.93%) Vagrant
6 6 (13.95%) Maven
6 6 (13.95%) SonarQube
7 5 (11.63%) Gradle
7 5 (11.63%) SonarLint
8 3 (6.98%) CircleCI
9 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Public Sector
3 9 (20.93%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Games
5 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (34.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (27.91%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 12 (27.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 12 (27.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 12 (27.91%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (23.26%) Architect
5 9 (20.93%) Java Architect
6 7 (16.28%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 6 (13.95%) Technical Architect
8 5 (11.63%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (11.63%) Java Technical Architect
9 4 (9.30%) AWS Architect
10 3 (6.98%) Administrator
10 3 (6.98%) Cloud Administrator
10 3 (6.98%) Lead
10 3 (6.98%) Lead Network Engineer
10 3 (6.98%) Network Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) LDAP
1 10 (23.26%) RESTful
2 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
3 7 (16.28%) Kafka
4 6 (13.95%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (11.63%) Dropwizard
5 5 (11.63%) J2EE
5 5 (11.63%) JWT
5 5 (11.63%) Micronaut
5 5 (11.63%) OAuth
5 5 (11.63%) OAuth2
5 5 (11.63%) OpenID
5 5 (11.63%) REST
5 5 (11.63%) Spring
6 4 (9.30%) Celery
6 4 (9.30%) gRPC
6 4 (9.30%) Hibernate
6 4 (9.30%) JPA
6 4 (9.30%) JSON
6 4 (9.30%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 9 (20.93%) Replication
3 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
4 5 (11.63%) N-Tier
5 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.33%) NHS
7 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.23%) Linux
2 12 (27.91%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (23.26%) Windows
4 9 (20.93%) Ubuntu
4 9 (20.93%) VMS
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) CI/CD
2 27 (62.79%) DevOps
3 23 (53.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (44.19%) Containerisation
5 18 (41.86%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (27.91%) Cost Optimisation
6 12 (27.91%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (27.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (25.58%) Cloud Security
7 11 (25.58%) Configuration Management
7 11 (25.58%) Observability
8 10 (23.26%) OWASP
8 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (20.93%) Change Management
9 9 (20.93%) Design Patterns
9 9 (20.93%) Domain-Driven Design
9 9 (20.93%) Event-Driven
9 9 (20.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (20.93%) Microservices
9 9 (20.93%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (76.74%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) SQL
3 11 (25.58%) PowerShell
4 10 (23.26%) Groovy
4 10 (23.26%) Java
5 9 (20.93%) Bash
6 4 (9.30%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (32.56%) AWS Certification
4 9 (20.93%) Azure Certification
4 9 (20.93%) Degree
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.33%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.30%) NIST
2 4 (9.30%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (81.40%) Docker
2 9 (20.93%) DFS Replication
2 9 (20.93%) Dovecot
2 9 (20.93%) Postfix
2 9 (20.93%) Squid
3 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (88.37%) Terraform
2 18 (41.86%) Kubernetes
3 16 (37.21%) Prometheus
4 15 (34.88%) Grafana
5 9 (20.93%) Nessus
5 9 (20.93%) Proxmox
6 6 (13.95%) Ansible
7 3 (6.98%) Packer
8 2 (4.65%) Argo
8 2 (4.65%) Karpenter
8 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
8 2 (4.65%) Puppet
9 1 (2.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (20.93%) ServiceNow
1 9 (20.93%) Splunk
2 5 (11.63%) Gigya
3 4 (9.30%) Cloudera
4 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
4 3 (6.98%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.65%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.33%) SaltStack