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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 433 497
Rank change year-on-year -70 +64 +110
Contract jobs citing Route 53 59 52 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.54% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 51
10th Percentile £433 £454 £386
25th Percentile £463 £584 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.18% +35.00% -10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £638
90th Percentile £643 - £694
UK median daily rate £550 £601 £475
% change year-on-year -8.52% +26.58% -13.64%

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 12,984 9,650 12,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.43% 37.61% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,962 6,496 9,030
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 148 312
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.38 £14.14
25th Percentile £19.19 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.96% +28.51% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.51% +27.91% -14.00%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -26 40 £550 -18.52% 7
West Midlands -47 13 £475 - 4
Midlands -48 13 £475 - 4
East of England - 6 £510 -
North of England -53 4 £521 -5.57% 5
Yorkshire -55 3 £518 -20.38% 1
North East -17 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 11 (18.64%) Confluence
2 10 (16.95%) nginx
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (76.27%) Amazon S3
3 41 (69.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 38 (64.41%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (47.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (45.76%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (45.76%) Serverless
7 25 (42.37%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (35.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (30.51%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (23.73%) Azure
10 14 (23.73%) GitHub
11 11 (18.64%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (18.64%) AWS Direct Connect
11 11 (18.64%) AWS KMS
12 10 (16.95%) GCP
13 9 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (10.17%) Amazon ELB
15 4 (6.78%) Akamai
15 4 (6.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 27 (45.76%) DNS
2 21 (35.59%) Firewall
3 18 (30.51%) VPN
4 11 (18.64%) TCP/IP
5 7 (11.86%) OpenVPN
6 6 (10.17%) BGP
6 6 (10.17%) OSPF
7 4 (6.78%) Kerberos
7 4 (6.78%) NGFW
7 4 (6.78%) WAN
8 3 (5.08%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (5.08%) DHCP
8 3 (5.08%) FTP
8 3 (5.08%) HTTP
8 3 (5.08%) IMAP
8 3 (5.08%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (5.08%) SMTP
8 3 (5.08%) SSH
8 3 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (5.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (49.15%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (33.90%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (25.42%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (25.42%) DynamoDB
4 8 (13.56%) MySQL
5 7 (11.86%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (8.47%) DocumentDB
7 4 (6.78%) MongoDB
7 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
7 4 (6.78%) Redis
8 3 (5.08%) Big Data
8 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
8 3 (5.08%) Hadoop
8 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
9 2 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (3.39%) Apache Hive
9 2 (3.39%) Impala
10 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (54.24%) Jenkins
2 16 (27.12%) GitLab
3 14 (23.73%) SonarQube
4 13 (22.03%) Git
5 11 (18.64%) JIRA
6 8 (13.56%) Maven
7 7 (11.86%) JUnit
7 7 (11.86%) Mockito
8 6 (10.17%) Bitbucket
8 6 (10.17%) DbUnit
8 6 (10.17%) jMock
9 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (6.78%) CircleCI
10 3 (5.08%) Vagrant
11 1 (1.69%) AppScan
11 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.69%) Burp Suite
11 1 (1.69%) Metasploit
11 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 30 (50.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.86%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Advertising
7 1 (1.69%) Games
7 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Architect
2 14 (23.73%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (22.03%) AWS Architect
4 12 (20.34%) Cloud Architect
5 8 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Java Developer
7 6 (10.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Technical Architect
8 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Administrator
9 4 (6.78%) Cloud Administrator
9 4 (6.78%) Java Architect
9 4 (6.78%) Lead
9 4 (6.78%) Network Architect
10 3 (5.08%) Network Manager
10 3 (5.08%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) OpenID
1 12 (20.34%) REST
1 12 (20.34%) Spring
2 11 (18.64%) Hibernate
2 11 (18.64%) JPA
2 11 (18.64%) LDAP
2 11 (18.64%) Spring Boot
2 11 (18.64%) Spring Cloud
3 9 (15.25%) RESTful
4 8 (13.56%) AngularJS
4 8 (13.56%) Kafka
4 8 (13.56%) SOAP
5 7 (11.86%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (11.86%) Node.js
5 7 (11.86%) Spring Batch
5 7 (11.86%) Spring Integration
5 7 (11.86%) Web Services
6 6 (10.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (10.17%) PowerMock
7 5 (8.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.95%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.78%) Replication
4 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.08%) SCADA
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.69%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.73%) Linux
2 9 (15.25%) Windows
3 6 (10.17%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.08%) VMS
5 1 (1.69%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (57.63%) DevOps
2 33 (55.93%) CI/CD
3 28 (47.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (42.37%) Containerisation
5 19 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (28.81%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (22.03%) Observability
8 12 (20.34%) Roadmaps
8 12 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (18.64%) Cost Optimisation
9 11 (18.64%) Microservices
10 10 (16.95%) Decision-Making
10 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
11 9 (15.25%) Agile
11 9 (15.25%) Auto-Scaling
11 9 (15.25%) Capacity Planning
12 8 (13.56%) Load Balancing
12 8 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (11.86%) Network Load Balancing
13 7 (11.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) Python
2 13 (22.03%) SQL
3 12 (20.34%) Java
4 8 (13.56%) Bash
5 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.47%) Go
7 4 (6.78%) Groovy
8 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.69%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 25 (42.37%) SC Cleared
1 25 (42.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.12%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.17%) Azure Certification
4 5 (8.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Degree
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.69%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.69%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (8.47%) NIST
1 5 (8.47%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.78%) QA
3 3 (5.08%) GDPR
4 2 (3.39%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.69%) COBIT
5 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (57.63%) Docker
2 10 (16.95%) Squid
3 8 (13.56%) Postfix
4 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
5 3 (5.08%) DFS Replication
5 3 (5.08%) Dovecot
6 2 (3.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (67.80%) Terraform
2 21 (35.59%) Grafana
3 20 (33.90%) Kubernetes
3 20 (33.90%) Prometheus
4 10 (16.95%) Ansible
5 7 (11.86%) FortiGate
5 7 (11.86%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (10.17%) Consul
7 4 (6.78%) Nessus
8 3 (5.08%) HAProxy
8 3 (5.08%) Packer
8 3 (5.08%) Proxmox
8 3 (5.08%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (3.39%) Argo
9 2 (3.39%) Karpenter
9 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.69%) Nagios
10 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Atlassian
2 11 (18.64%) Splunk
3 10 (16.95%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (11.86%) Dynatrace
4 7 (11.86%) Red Hat
5 6 (10.17%) AVEVA
6 4 (6.78%) Cloudera
7 3 (5.08%) Cisco
7 3 (5.08%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.08%) Infoblox
7 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
7 3 (5.08%) Palo Alto
7 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.39%) Databricks
8 2 (3.39%) Globalscape
8 2 (3.39%) Google
8 2 (3.39%) SAP
8 2 (3.39%) Solace
9 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.69%) LogRhythm