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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 462 499
Rank change year-on-year -38 +37 +112
Contract jobs citing Route 53 42 42 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.40% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 46
10th Percentile £410 £451 £456
25th Percentile £450 £505 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +16.67% -5.62%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £584
90th Percentile £650 £698 £681
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 11,926 10,622 13,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.17% 36.66% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,199 7,102 9,536
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 134 249
10th Percentile £14.85 £17.13 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +29.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.00 £68.75 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.00% +11.11%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 +1 26 £600 -7.69% 6
West Midlands -23 13 £450 - 1
Midlands -34 13 £450 - 1
North of England -46 10 £525 +15.64% 1
North West -15 5 £575 +76.92% 1
Yorkshire -38 4 £509 -21.73%
North East -7 1 £575 +26.65%
East of England - 1 £475 -
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 (28.57%) Confluence
2 11 (26.19%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (78.57%) Amazon EC2
3 31 (73.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 30 (71.43%) Amazon S3
5 26 (61.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (59.52%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (45.24%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (45.24%) Serverless
8 18 (42.86%) Azure
9 17 (40.48%) GitHub
10 13 (30.95%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (30.95%) Amazon ELB
10 13 (30.95%) AWS KMS
10 13 (30.95%) GCP
11 12 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (26.19%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (21.43%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (21.43%) AWS Direct Connect
14 8 (19.05%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (42.86%) DNS
2 17 (40.48%) Firewall
3 11 (26.19%) IMAP
3 11 (26.19%) OpenLDAP
3 11 (26.19%) SMTP
4 10 (23.81%) FTP
4 10 (23.81%) HTTP
4 10 (23.81%) SSH
5 8 (19.05%) VPN
6 4 (9.52%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.38%) DHCP
7 1 (2.38%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.38%) LAN
7 1 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.38%) VLAN
7 1 (2.38%) VSAN
7 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (52.38%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (40.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (21.43%) DynamoDB
5 8 (19.05%) MySQL
5 8 (19.05%) Relational Database
6 5 (11.90%) BigQuery
6 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
6 5 (11.90%) RDBMS
6 5 (11.90%) Redis
7 3 (7.14%) Big Data
7 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
7 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
7 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (4.76%) Apache Hive
8 2 (4.76%) Impala
9 1 (2.38%) DocumentDB
9 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (73.81%) Jenkins
2 20 (47.62%) Git
3 15 (35.71%) GitLab
4 12 (28.57%) JIRA
5 11 (26.19%) Vagrant
6 6 (14.29%) Maven
6 6 (14.29%) SonarQube
7 5 (11.90%) Gradle
7 5 (11.90%) SonarLint
8 3 (7.14%) CircleCI
9 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 23 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Public Sector
3 10 (23.81%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (40.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 14 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 14 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 14 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) Architect
4 9 (21.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) Technical Architect
6 5 (11.90%) Java Architect
6 5 (11.90%) Java Technical Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Administrator
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Architect
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Administrator
7 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) LDAP
2 6 (14.29%) RESTful
3 5 (11.90%) Dropwizard
3 5 (11.90%) J2EE
3 5 (11.90%) JWT
3 5 (11.90%) Micronaut
3 5 (11.90%) Spring Boot
4 4 (9.52%) Celery
4 4 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (9.52%) JSON
5 3 (7.14%) Kafka
5 3 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (7.14%) YAML
6 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.38%) React
7 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Replication
2 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (11.90%) N-Tier
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.76%) PKI
5 1 (2.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (38.10%) Linux
2 14 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (28.57%) Windows
4 11 (26.19%) Ubuntu
4 11 (26.19%) VMS
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.38%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) CI/CD
2 26 (61.90%) DevOps
3 19 (45.24%) Containerisation
3 19 (45.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (30.95%) Configuration Management
5 13 (30.95%) Patch Management
5 13 (30.95%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (28.57%) Change Management
6 12 (28.57%) Cloud Security
7 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (19.05%) Cost Optimisation
9 7 (16.67%) Agile
9 7 (16.67%) Observability
10 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 6 (14.29%) OWASP
10 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (11.90%) Auto-Scaling
11 5 (11.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 35 (83.33%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 12 (28.57%) Groovy
3 12 (28.57%) SQL
4 9 (21.43%) Bash
5 6 (14.29%) Java
6 4 (9.52%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (45.24%) SC Cleared
3 18 (42.86%) AWS Certification
4 10 (23.81%) Azure Certification
4 10 (23.81%) Degree
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
1 2 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 33 (78.57%) Docker
2 11 (26.19%) Dovecot
2 11 (26.19%) Postfix
2 11 (26.19%) Squid
3 10 (23.81%) DFS Replication
4 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
5 2 (4.76%) HDFS
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (83.33%) Terraform
2 18 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 17 (40.48%) Grafana
3 17 (40.48%) Kubernetes
4 11 (26.19%) Nessus
5 10 (23.81%) Proxmox
6 5 (11.90%) Ansible
7 3 (7.14%) Packer
8 2 (4.76%) Argo
8 2 (4.76%) Karpenter
8 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
8 2 (4.76%) Puppet
9 1 (2.38%) Nagios
9 1 (2.38%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Jaspersoft
1 11 (26.19%) ServiceNow
2 8 (19.05%) Splunk
3 5 (11.90%) Gigya
4 4 (9.52%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.76%) Google
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.38%) Veeam
6 1 (2.38%) VMware