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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 474 494
Rank change year-on-year -99 +20 +86
Contract jobs citing Route 53 55 44 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 33
10th Percentile £463 £450 £361
25th Percentile £503 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +18.92% -11.90%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £545
90th Percentile £626 £700 £585
UK median daily rate £555 £553 £463
% change year-on-year +0.36% +19.46% -11.90%

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 15,851 10,315 11,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,583 6,980 8,216
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 269 265
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +30.58% +23.18% -36.21%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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
Midlands -43 21 £476 +0.21% 2
London -71 21 £563 -3.02% 3
West Midlands -47 20 £476 +0.21% 2
South East -65 12 £568 +13.60% 2
East of England -24 2 - -
North of England - 1 £420 - 3
South West - 1 £450 - 2
North West - 1 £420 - 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 6 (10.91%) Confluence
2 4 (7.27%) nginx
3 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (61.82%) Amazon EC2
3 31 (56.36%) Amazon S3
4 30 (54.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (45.45%) Azure
6 21 (38.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 18 (32.73%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (32.73%) AWS KMS
8 17 (30.91%) Serverless
9 15 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (25.45%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (25.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (21.82%) GCP
12 10 (18.18%) GitHub
13 7 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (10.91%) AWS CloudTrail
14 6 (10.91%) AWS Direct Connect
15 5 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 5 (9.09%) AWS Control Tower
16 4 (7.27%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 20 (36.36%) DNS
2 16 (29.09%) TCP/IP
3 13 (23.64%) Firewall
4 10 (18.18%) DNSSEC
5 8 (14.55%) DHCP
5 8 (14.55%) Network Security
5 8 (14.55%) VPN
6 4 (7.27%) OpenVPN
7 3 (5.45%) BGP
8 2 (3.64%) OSPF
9 1 (1.82%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.82%) DMVPN
9 1 (1.82%) EIGRP
9 1 (1.82%) IPsec
9 1 (1.82%) LAN
9 1 (1.82%) MPLS
9 1 (1.82%) tcpdump
9 1 (1.82%) WAN
9 1 (1.82%) Wireless
9 1 (1.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (47.27%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (38.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 21 (38.18%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (32.73%) DynamoDB
4 4 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (50.91%) Jenkins
2 23 (41.82%) Git
3 21 (38.18%) SonarQube
4 18 (32.73%) JUnit
4 18 (32.73%) Maven
4 18 (32.73%) Mockito
5 14 (25.45%) DbUnit
6 13 (23.64%) jMock
7 11 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (12.73%) GitLab
9 6 (10.91%) JIRA
10 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.82%) AppScan
11 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.82%) Burp Suite
11 1 (1.82%) Metasploit
11 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (38.18%) Public Sector
2 17 (30.91%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.55%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Finance
6 1 (1.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (50.91%) Architect
2 18 (32.73%) Developer
2 18 (32.73%) Java Developer
3 10 (18.18%) AWS Architect
4 7 (12.73%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) Technical Architect
5 6 (10.91%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Network Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Architect
9 2 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Lead
9 2 (3.64%) Network Architect
9 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.73%) ActiveMQ
1 18 (32.73%) Hibernate
1 18 (32.73%) JPA
1 18 (32.73%) SOAP
1 18 (32.73%) Spring
1 18 (32.73%) Spring Batch
1 18 (32.73%) Spring Boot
1 18 (32.73%) Spring Integration
1 18 (32.73%) Web Services
2 17 (30.91%) AngularJS
2 17 (30.91%) REST
3 16 (29.09%) Spring Cloud
4 15 (27.27%) RESTful
5 13 (23.64%) PowerMock
6 12 (21.82%) Node.js
7 11 (20.00%) Bootstrap
8 7 (12.73%) OpenID
9 4 (7.27%) LDAP
10 3 (5.45%) OAuth
10 3 (5.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (16.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.45%) Replication
5 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (29.09%) Linux
2 9 (16.36%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (54.55%) DevOps
2 25 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 24 (43.64%) Containerisation
4 22 (40.00%) Microservices
5 20 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (34.55%) Agile
6 19 (34.55%) Scrum
7 18 (32.73%) TDD
8 16 (29.09%) Kanban
9 15 (27.27%) Decision-Making
10 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (23.64%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (21.82%) BDD
12 12 (21.82%) BPMN
12 12 (21.82%) High Availability
12 12 (21.82%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (20.00%) Open Source
14 10 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (18.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) SQL
2 18 (32.73%) Java
2 18 (32.73%) Python
3 15 (27.27%) Bash
3 15 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.82%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 44 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (76.36%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) AWS Certification
4 6 (10.91%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.82%) CCNP
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.82%) COBIT
2 1 (1.82%) GDPR
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 24 (43.64%) Docker
2 11 (20.00%) Postfix
3 4 (7.27%) Squid
4 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (49.09%) Grafana
1 27 (49.09%) Terraform
2 15 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 15 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.09%) Ansible
4 4 (7.27%) FortiGate
4 4 (7.27%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.64%) Consul
5 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.82%) Argo
6 1 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Istio
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.82%) Nessus
6 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) Jaspersoft
2 16 (29.09%) Atlassian
3 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
4 11 (20.00%) Infoblox
5 9 (16.36%) Google
6 4 (7.27%) Dynatrace
6 4 (7.27%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.82%) AVEVA
8 1 (1.82%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.82%) Cisco
8 1 (1.82%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.82%) F5
8 1 (1.82%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.82%) Splunk
8 1 (1.82%) Tenable
8 1 (1.82%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.82%) Veracode