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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 473 519
Rank change year-on-year -23 +46 +84
Contract jobs citing Route 53 48 36 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 41
10th Percentile £434 £453 £450
25th Percentile £453 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +6.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £688 £588
90th Percentile £689 £690 £675
UK median daily rate £555 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +0.91% +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 11,634 11,007 13,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.62% 35.87% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,925 7,315 10,197
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 140 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +30.05%
75th Percentile £45.60 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.05 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £31.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +7.32% +40.91%

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 November 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 November 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 +15 26 £550 -10.20% 13
West Midlands -13 19 £475 -
Midlands -22 19 £475 -
North of England -32 10 £525 +15.64% 8
North West -17 5 £575 +76.92% 7
Yorkshire -35 4 £509 -21.73% 1
East of England - 2 £575 - 1
North East -7 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 14 (29.17%) nginx
2 13 (27.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (79.17%) Amazon EC2
3 35 (72.92%) Amazon S3
4 32 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 28 (58.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 25 (52.08%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (39.58%) AWS KMS
8 18 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (37.50%) Serverless
9 16 (33.33%) Azure
10 15 (31.25%) GitHub
11 12 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
11 12 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (22.92%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (18.75%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (18.75%) GCP
15 8 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
16 7 (14.58%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (37.50%) DNS
2 16 (33.33%) Firewall
3 12 (25.00%) IMAP
3 12 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (25.00%) SMTP
3 12 (25.00%) SSH
4 10 (20.83%) FTP
4 10 (20.83%) HTTP
5 5 (10.42%) VPN
6 2 (4.17%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.08%) DHCP
7 1 (2.08%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.08%) LAN
7 1 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.08%) VLAN
7 1 (2.08%) VSAN
7 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (70.83%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (47.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (29.17%) DynamoDB
5 8 (16.67%) Relational Database
6 7 (14.58%) MySQL
7 5 (10.42%) BigQuery
7 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
7 5 (10.42%) RDBMS
7 5 (10.42%) Redis
8 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (2.08%) Big Data
9 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.08%) DocumentDB
9 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (79.17%) Jenkins
2 27 (56.25%) Git
3 13 (27.08%) JIRA
4 12 (25.00%) GitLab
4 12 (25.00%) Maven
4 12 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 12 (25.00%) Vagrant
5 6 (12.50%) JUnit
6 5 (10.42%) Gradle
6 5 (10.42%) SonarLint
7 4 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (8.33%) DbUnit
7 4 (8.33%) jMock
7 4 (8.33%) Mockito
8 2 (4.17%) CircleCI
9 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 18 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 10 (20.83%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Finance
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Games
6 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.08%) Police
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (35.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (31.25%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (31.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 15 (31.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 15 (31.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 15 (31.25%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (20.83%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 9 (18.75%) Architect
6 6 (12.50%) Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Java Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Java Architect
7 5 (10.42%) Java Technical Architect
7 5 (10.42%) Technical Architect
8 4 (8.33%) AWS Architect
9 3 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) LDAP
2 12 (25.00%) RESTful
3 11 (22.92%) Spring Boot
4 8 (16.67%) REST
5 7 (14.58%) SOAP
5 7 (14.58%) Spring
6 6 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 6 (12.50%) JPA
6 6 (12.50%) Spring Batch
6 6 (12.50%) Spring Integration
6 6 (12.50%) Web Services
7 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.42%) Dropwizard
7 5 (10.42%) J2EE
7 5 (10.42%) JWT
7 5 (10.42%) Micronaut
8 4 (8.33%) Bootstrap
8 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Replication
2 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.42%) N-Tier
4 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.17%) PKI
6 1 (2.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 23 (47.92%) Linux
2 17 (35.42%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (25.00%) VMS
3 12 (25.00%) Windows
4 11 (22.92%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.08%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (66.67%) DevOps
2 30 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 19 (39.58%) Containerisation
4 15 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (29.17%) Agile
5 14 (29.17%) Cloud Security
5 14 (29.17%) Configuration Management
5 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (27.08%) Change Management
6 13 (27.08%) Patch Management
6 13 (27.08%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (22.92%) Microservices
7 11 (22.92%) TDD
8 9 (18.75%) BDD
8 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.58%) OWASP
10 6 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (12.50%) Scrum
10 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) Python
2 19 (39.58%) SQL
3 15 (31.25%) PowerShell
4 13 (27.08%) Groovy
5 12 (25.00%) Java
6 8 (16.67%) Bash
7 3 (6.25%) Go
8 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 25 (52.08%) SC Cleared
3 17 (35.42%) AWS Certification
4 10 (20.83%) Azure Certification
4 10 (20.83%) Degree
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) GDPR
1 2 (4.17%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 37 (77.08%) Docker
2 16 (33.33%) Postfix
3 12 (25.00%) Dovecot
3 12 (25.00%) Squid
4 10 (20.83%) DFS Replication
5 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (72.92%) Terraform
2 22 (45.83%) Prometheus
3 21 (43.75%) Grafana
4 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
5 12 (25.00%) Nessus
6 10 (20.83%) Proxmox
7 5 (10.42%) Packer
8 4 (8.33%) Ansible
9 2 (4.17%) FortiGate
9 2 (4.17%) Kibana
9 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
9 2 (4.17%) Puppet
10 1 (2.08%) Argo
10 1 (2.08%) Karpenter
10 1 (2.08%) Nagios
10 1 (2.08%) PowerCLI
10 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (12.50%) Splunk
4 5 (10.42%) Gigya
5 4 (8.33%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.17%) Cloudera
7 1 (2.08%) Google
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.08%) SaltStack
7 1 (2.08%) Veeam
7 1 (2.08%) VMware