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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 484 520
Rank change year-on-year +8 +36 +82
Contract jobs citing Route 53 43 39 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.35% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 39
10th Percentile £419 £475 £460
25th Percentile £466 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +6.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £619 £581
90th Percentile £694 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £553 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +0.45% +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 10,923 11,283 14,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.69% 35.31% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,375 7,525 10,654
10th Percentile £304 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% -1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 157 294
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.18 £14.55
25th Percentile £18.44 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%
75th Percentile £40.85 £68.75 £62.38
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +43.64%

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 17 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 17 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 +8 21 £550 -2.22% 5
West Midlands -7 20 £475 -
Midlands -9 20 £475 -
North of England -25 6 £575 +26.65% 2
North West -15 5 £575 +76.92% 2
South East +13 2 £500 -15.97% 1
East of England -5 2 £575 +4.55% 1
Yorkshire -27 1 £500 -23.08%
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 (32.56%) nginx
2 13 (30.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (76.74%) Amazon EC2
3 31 (72.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 30 (69.77%) Amazon S3
5 23 (53.49%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (51.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 21 (48.84%) AWS KMS
8 15 (34.88%) Azure
9 13 (30.23%) Amazon ELB
9 13 (30.23%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (30.23%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (30.23%) Serverless
10 12 (27.91%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (25.58%) GitHub
12 9 (20.93%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (16.28%) AWS Fargate
13 7 (16.28%) Datadog
14 6 (13.95%) Apigee
14 6 (13.95%) GCP
14 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.88%) DNS
2 14 (32.56%) Firewall
3 12 (27.91%) IMAP
3 12 (27.91%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (27.91%) SMTP
3 12 (27.91%) SSH
4 10 (23.26%) FTP
4 10 (23.26%) HTTP
5 1 (2.33%) DHCP
5 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.33%) LAN
5 1 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.33%) VLAN
5 1 (2.33%) VPN
5 1 (2.33%) VSAN
5 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (74.42%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (60.47%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (58.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (30.23%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
5 5 (11.63%) MySQL
5 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
5 5 (11.63%) RDBMS
5 5 (11.63%) Redis
5 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (79.07%) Jenkins
2 29 (67.44%) Git
3 14 (32.56%) Maven
3 14 (32.56%) SonarQube
4 13 (30.23%) JIRA
5 12 (27.91%) Vagrant
6 9 (20.93%) GitLab
7 8 (18.60%) JUnit
8 6 (13.95%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (13.95%) DbUnit
8 6 (13.95%) jMock
8 6 (13.95%) Mockito
9 5 (11.63%) Gradle
9 5 (11.63%) SonarLint
10 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (46.51%) Public Sector
2 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Games
5 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.33%) Police
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (44.19%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (41.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (34.88%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (34.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (27.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 12 (27.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 12 (27.91%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (23.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 9 (20.93%) Architect
7 8 (18.60%) Developer
7 8 (18.60%) Java Developer
8 5 (11.63%) Java Architect
8 5 (11.63%) Java Technical Architect
8 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (11.63%) Technical Architect
9 4 (9.30%) AWS Architect
9 4 (9.30%) AWS Developer
10 3 (6.98%) AWS Solution Architect
10 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) RESTful
2 13 (30.23%) LDAP
2 13 (30.23%) Spring Boot
3 9 (20.93%) REST
3 9 (20.93%) Spring
4 8 (18.60%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (18.60%) Hibernate
4 8 (18.60%) JPA
4 8 (18.60%) SOAP
4 8 (18.60%) Spring Batch
4 8 (18.60%) Spring Integration
4 8 (18.60%) Web Services
5 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
6 6 (13.95%) Bootstrap
6 6 (13.95%) PowerMock
6 6 (13.95%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (11.63%) Dropwizard
7 5 (11.63%) J2EE
7 5 (11.63%) JWT
7 5 (11.63%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Replication
2 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
3 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (11.63%) N-Tier
5 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.65%) PKI
7 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (51.16%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (27.91%) VMS
3 12 (27.91%) Windows
4 11 (25.58%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) DevOps
2 26 (60.47%) CI/CD
3 17 (39.53%) Containerisation
4 16 (37.21%) Agile
5 15 (34.88%) Cloud Security
6 14 (32.56%) Change Management
6 14 (32.56%) Configuration Management
7 13 (30.23%) Microservices
7 13 (30.23%) Patch Management
7 13 (30.23%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (30.23%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (30.23%) TDD
8 11 (25.58%) BDD
9 9 (20.93%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (20.93%) Scrum
10 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (16.28%) Kanban
11 7 (16.28%) Risk Management
12 6 (13.95%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) Python
2 22 (51.16%) SQL
3 14 (32.56%) Java
3 14 (32.56%) PowerShell
4 13 (30.23%) Groovy
5 6 (13.95%) Bash
6 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) Security Cleared
2 25 (58.14%) SC Cleared
3 16 (37.21%) AWS Certification
4 10 (23.26%) Azure Certification
4 10 (23.26%) Degree
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 33 (76.74%) Docker
2 18 (41.86%) Postfix
3 12 (27.91%) Dovecot
3 12 (27.91%) Squid
4 10 (23.26%) DFS Replication
5 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (67.44%) Terraform
2 22 (51.16%) Grafana
3 21 (48.84%) Prometheus
4 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
5 12 (27.91%) Nessus
6 10 (23.26%) Proxmox
7 2 (4.65%) Ansible
7 2 (4.65%) FortiGate
7 2 (4.65%) Kibana
7 2 (4.65%) Packer
7 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.65%) Puppet
8 1 (2.33%) Argo
8 1 (2.33%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.33%) Nagios
8 1 (2.33%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (41.86%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (27.91%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.95%) Atlassian
4 5 (11.63%) Gigya
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) Veeam
5 1 (2.33%) VMware