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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 435 485
Rank change year-on-year -69 +50 +105
Contract jobs citing Route 53 61 54 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.57% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 51
10th Percentile £448 £475 £386
25th Percentile £468 £567 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £697 £638
90th Percentile £640 £700 £694
UK median daily rate £550 £601 £505
% change year-on-year -8.52% +19.06% -8.18%

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 13,352 9,455 12,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.09% 37.96% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,192 6,547 8,877
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £410 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £707 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 156 331
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.23% +21.67% -14.52%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -28 40 £550 -18.52% 6
West Midlands -47 12 £475 - 4
Midlands -54 12 £475 - 7
East of England - 7 £510 - 6
North of England -58 4 £521 -5.57% 9
Yorkshire -56 3 £518 -20.38% 4
North East -12 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 9 (14.75%) Confluence
2 8 (13.11%) nginx
3 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (73.77%) Amazon S3
3 40 (65.57%) Amazon EC2
3 40 (65.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 28 (45.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 28 (45.90%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (45.90%) Serverless
5 27 (44.26%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (37.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (22.95%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (22.95%) GitHub
8 13 (21.31%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (21.31%) Azure
9 12 (19.67%) AWS Direct Connect
10 11 (18.03%) GCP
11 10 (16.39%) AWS KMS
12 9 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (6.56%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (6.56%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (6.56%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 27 (44.26%) DNS
2 20 (32.79%) Firewall
2 20 (32.79%) VPN
3 12 (19.67%) TCP/IP
4 8 (13.11%) OpenVPN
5 7 (11.48%) BGP
6 6 (9.84%) OSPF
7 4 (6.56%) Kerberos
7 4 (6.56%) NGFW
7 4 (6.56%) WAN
8 3 (4.92%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (4.92%) DHCP
8 3 (4.92%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (4.92%) Wireless
9 2 (3.28%) Network Security
9 2 (3.28%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.64%) Anycast
10 1 (1.64%) IPsec
10 1 (1.64%) MPLS
10 1 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (44.26%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (31.15%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (27.87%) DynamoDB
4 14 (22.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (13.11%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (13.11%) MySQL
6 5 (8.20%) DocumentDB
7 4 (6.56%) MongoDB
7 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
7 4 (6.56%) Redis
8 3 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (4.92%) Big Data
8 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
8 3 (4.92%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (3.28%) Apache Hive
9 2 (3.28%) Impala
Development Applications
1 31 (50.82%) Jenkins
2 16 (26.23%) GitLab
2 16 (26.23%) SonarQube
3 11 (18.03%) Git
4 9 (14.75%) JIRA
4 9 (14.75%) JUnit
4 9 (14.75%) Maven
4 9 (14.75%) Mockito
5 7 (11.48%) Bitbucket
5 7 (11.48%) DbUnit
5 7 (11.48%) jMock
6 5 (8.20%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (6.56%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.64%) AppScan
8 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.64%) Metasploit
8 1 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 27 (44.26%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.95%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.11%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Finance
6 3 (4.92%) Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Advertising
8 1 (1.64%) Games
8 1 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (36.07%) Architect
2 13 (21.31%) AWS Architect
3 12 (19.67%) Cloud Architect
4 11 (18.03%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Developer
5 9 (14.75%) Java Developer
6 6 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Technical Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Administrator
7 4 (6.56%) Cloud Administrator
7 4 (6.56%) Java Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Network Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Lead Network Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) REST
2 13 (21.31%) Hibernate
2 13 (21.31%) JPA
2 13 (21.31%) Spring
2 13 (21.31%) Spring Boot
2 13 (21.31%) Spring Cloud
3 12 (19.67%) OpenID
4 10 (16.39%) RESTful
4 10 (16.39%) SOAP
5 9 (14.75%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (14.75%) AngularJS
5 9 (14.75%) LDAP
5 9 (14.75%) Spring Batch
5 9 (14.75%) Spring Integration
5 9 (14.75%) Web Services
6 8 (13.11%) Kafka
6 8 (13.11%) Node.js
7 7 (11.48%) PowerMock
8 6 (9.84%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (8.20%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (18.03%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.92%) Replication
4 3 (4.92%) SCADA
4 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.64%) NHS
6 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.67%) Linux
2 7 (11.48%) Windows
3 3 (4.92%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (55.74%) DevOps
2 31 (50.82%) CI/CD
3 28 (45.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (44.26%) Containerisation
5 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (26.23%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (22.95%) Observability
8 13 (21.31%) Microservices
8 13 (21.31%) Roadmaps
8 13 (21.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (19.67%) Decision-Making
10 11 (18.03%) Cost Optimisation
11 10 (16.39%) Agile
11 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
12 9 (14.75%) Auto-Scaling
12 9 (14.75%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (14.75%) Scrum
12 9 (14.75%) TDD
13 8 (13.11%) BPMN
13 8 (13.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) Python
2 14 (22.95%) SQL
3 13 (21.31%) Java
4 7 (11.48%) Bash
5 5 (8.20%) Go
6 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.64%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 28 (45.90%) Security Cleared
2 27 (44.26%) SC Cleared
3 13 (21.31%) AWS Certification
4 6 (9.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.64%) CCNP
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.64%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.64%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (8.20%) NIST
1 5 (8.20%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.56%) QA
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.64%) COBIT
5 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (54.10%) Docker
2 8 (13.11%) Squid
3 6 (9.84%) Postfix
4 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (65.57%) Terraform
2 22 (36.07%) Kubernetes
3 21 (34.43%) Grafana
4 19 (31.15%) Prometheus
5 10 (16.39%) Ansible
6 8 (13.11%) FortiGate
6 8 (13.11%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (11.48%) Consul
8 3 (4.92%) HAProxy
8 3 (4.92%) Packer
8 3 (4.92%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (3.28%) Argo
9 2 (3.28%) Karpenter
9 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.64%) Nagios
10 1 (1.64%) Nessus
10 1 (1.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Atlassian
2 11 (18.03%) Splunk
3 9 (14.75%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (13.11%) Dynatrace
4 8 (13.11%) Red Hat
5 6 (9.84%) AVEVA
6 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
7 4 (6.56%) Cloudera
8 3 (4.92%) Cisco
8 3 (4.92%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.92%) Google
8 3 (4.92%) Infoblox
8 3 (4.92%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.28%) Databricks
9 2 (3.28%) Globalscape
9 2 (3.28%) SAP
9 2 (3.28%) Solace
10 1 (1.64%) BeyondTrust
10 1 (1.64%) jetNEXUS
10 1 (1.64%) Tenable