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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 465 486
Rank change year-on-year -113 +21 +82
Contract jobs citing Route 53 50 43 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.42% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 27
10th Percentile £461 £445 £409
25th Percentile £502 £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £586 £565
90th Percentile £632 £689 £595
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £526
% change year-on-year - +4.61% -4.41%

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 16,040 10,330 11,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.06% 37.14% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,700 7,010 7,958
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £422 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 269 234
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.17
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +7.59% -26.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.18
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.27% -30.91%

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 9 August 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 August 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 -88 20 £575 +4.55% 5
Midlands -50 17 £475 - 5
West Midlands -49 16 £475 - 5
South East -57 12 £568 +13.60% 1
East of England -18 2 - -
North West -50 1 £420 -26.96% 2
North of England -71 1 £420 -26.96% 3
South West - 1 £450 - 2
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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
1 4 (8.00%) nginx
2 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 28 (56.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 27 (54.00%) Amazon S3
5 23 (46.00%) Azure
6 18 (36.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (34.00%) AWS KMS
8 16 (32.00%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (28.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (28.00%) Serverless
10 12 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (24.00%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (22.00%) GCP
11 11 (22.00%) GitHub
12 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudTrail
13 6 (12.00%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
14 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.00%) DNS
2 14 (28.00%) TCP/IP
3 12 (24.00%) Firewall
4 10 (20.00%) DNSSEC
5 8 (16.00%) DHCP
5 8 (16.00%) Network Security
6 6 (12.00%) VPN
7 3 (6.00%) OpenVPN
8 2 (4.00%) BGP
9 1 (2.00%) BIG-IP
9 1 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (2.00%) EIGRP
9 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
9 1 (2.00%) LAN
9 1 (2.00%) OSPF
9 1 (2.00%) SSL
9 1 (2.00%) VLAN
9 1 (2.00%) WAN
9 1 (2.00%) Wireless
9 1 (2.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.00%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (38.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 19 (38.00%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (32.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (52.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (44.00%) Git
3 19 (38.00%) SonarQube
4 17 (34.00%) Maven
5 16 (32.00%) JUnit
5 16 (32.00%) Mockito
6 12 (24.00%) DbUnit
7 11 (22.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (22.00%) jMock
8 8 (16.00%) GitLab
9 4 (8.00%) JIRA
10 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
10 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
General
1 18 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 17 (34.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Games
6 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (50.00%) Architect
2 16 (32.00%) Developer
2 16 (32.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.00%) AWS Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
4 7 (14.00%) Technical Architect
5 6 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Network Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Architect
9 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Lead
9 2 (4.00%) Network Architect
9 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.00%) ActiveMQ
1 16 (32.00%) Hibernate
1 16 (32.00%) JPA
1 16 (32.00%) SOAP
1 16 (32.00%) Spring
1 16 (32.00%) Spring Batch
1 16 (32.00%) Spring Boot
1 16 (32.00%) Spring Integration
1 16 (32.00%) Web Services
2 15 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 15 (30.00%) REST
2 15 (30.00%) RESTful
3 14 (28.00%) Spring Cloud
4 11 (22.00%) Bootstrap
4 11 (22.00%) PowerMock
5 10 (20.00%) Node.js
6 6 (12.00%) OpenID
7 4 (8.00%) LDAP
7 4 (8.00%) SAML
8 3 (6.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (18.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Replication
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Linux
2 8 (16.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) DevOps
2 23 (46.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (42.00%) Containerisation
4 20 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (40.00%) Microservices
5 17 (34.00%) Agile
5 17 (34.00%) Scrum
6 16 (32.00%) TDD
7 14 (28.00%) Kanban
8 13 (26.00%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (26.00%) Decision-Making
9 12 (24.00%) High Availability
10 11 (22.00%) Open Source
10 11 (22.00%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (20.00%) BDD
11 10 (20.00%) BPMN
11 10 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (18.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (18.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.00%) SQL
2 17 (34.00%) Python
3 16 (32.00%) Bash
3 16 (32.00%) Java
3 16 (32.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.00%) R
5 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (76.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) CCNP
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 22 (44.00%) Docker
2 9 (18.00%) Postfix
3 3 (6.00%) Squid
4 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (52.00%) Terraform
2 25 (50.00%) Grafana
3 14 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (28.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.00%) Ansible
5 3 (6.00%) FortiGate
5 3 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (4.00%) Consul
7 1 (2.00%) Argo
7 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.00%) Istio
7 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.00%) Puppet
7 1 (2.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (28.00%) Atlassian
3 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (22.00%) Infoblox
5 9 (18.00%) Google
6 4 (8.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
8 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.00%) Cisco
9 1 (2.00%) F5
9 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.00%) Sonatype
9 1 (2.00%) TOWER Software