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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 460 507
Rank change year-on-year -84 +47 +92
Contract jobs citing Route 53 71 46 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.45% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 36
10th Percentile £454 £460 £361
25th Percentile £489 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +18.92% -11.90%
75th Percentile £578 £675 £530
90th Percentile £619 £700 £581
UK median daily rate £550 £553 £456
% change year-on-year -0.45% +21.10% -13.10%

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 15,790 10,211 12,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.43% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,608 6,897 8,641
10th Percentile £325 £312 £310
25th Percentile £416 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 268 325
10th Percentile £16.63 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £27.63 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.13% +23.90% -36.29%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -47 32 £550 -4.76% 3
Midlands -38 21 £476 +0.21%
West Midlands -54 20 £476 +0.21%
South East -57 12 £568 +13.60% 3
East of England -17 7 £525 -22.22%
South West -35 1 £450 -30.77% 1
North West - 1 £420 - 1
North of England - 1 £420 - 1
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 (15.49%) Confluence
2 9 (12.68%) nginx
3 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (60.56%) Amazon EC2
3 42 (59.15%) Amazon S3
4 35 (49.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 32 (45.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 25 (35.21%) Azure
6 25 (35.21%) Serverless
7 24 (33.80%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (32.39%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (26.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (25.35%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (25.35%) AWS KMS
11 13 (18.31%) GCP
12 10 (14.08%) GitHub
13 8 (11.27%) AWS Direct Connect
14 7 (9.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 7 (9.86%) AWS Control Tower
14 7 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (8.45%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (8.45%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 32 (45.07%) DNS
2 22 (30.99%) Firewall
3 21 (29.58%) TCP/IP
4 15 (21.13%) VPN
5 11 (15.49%) DHCP
6 10 (14.08%) DNSSEC
6 10 (14.08%) Network Security
7 9 (12.68%) OpenVPN
8 5 (7.04%) BGP
8 5 (7.04%) WAN
9 4 (5.63%) OSPF
10 3 (4.23%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (2.82%) SD-WAN
12 1 (1.41%) Anycast
12 1 (1.41%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (1.41%) DMVPN
12 1 (1.41%) IPsec
12 1 (1.41%) LAN
12 1 (1.41%) NGFW
12 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.85%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (29.58%) Amazon Aurora
2 21 (29.58%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (25.35%) DynamoDB
4 9 (12.68%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (45.07%) Jenkins
2 26 (36.62%) SonarQube
3 23 (32.39%) Git
4 18 (25.35%) JUnit
4 18 (25.35%) Maven
4 18 (25.35%) Mockito
5 14 (19.72%) DbUnit
6 13 (18.31%) jMock
7 11 (15.49%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (15.49%) JIRA
8 8 (11.27%) GitLab
9 7 (9.86%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.41%) AppScan
10 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.41%) Burp Suite
10 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.41%) Metasploit
10 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (29.58%) Public Sector
3 19 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (18.31%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Advertising
7 1 (1.41%) Finance
7 1 (1.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 37 (52.11%) Architect
2 18 (25.35%) Developer
2 18 (25.35%) Java Developer
3 17 (23.94%) AWS Architect
4 11 (15.49%) Technical Architect
5 8 (11.27%) Senior
6 7 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (8.45%) Network Architect
7 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (7.04%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (7.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.63%) Network Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Network Manager
10 3 (4.23%) Network Services Manager
10 3 (4.23%) Service Manager
10 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.35%) ActiveMQ
1 18 (25.35%) Hibernate
1 18 (25.35%) JPA
1 18 (25.35%) SOAP
1 18 (25.35%) Spring
1 18 (25.35%) Spring Batch
1 18 (25.35%) Spring Boot
1 18 (25.35%) Spring Integration
1 18 (25.35%) Web Services
2 17 (23.94%) AngularJS
2 17 (23.94%) REST
3 16 (22.54%) Spring Cloud
4 15 (21.13%) RESTful
5 13 (18.31%) PowerMock
6 12 (16.90%) Node.js
6 12 (16.90%) OpenID
7 11 (15.49%) Bootstrap
8 9 (12.68%) LDAP
9 4 (5.63%) AWS CDK
10 3 (4.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.23%) Replication
3 3 (4.23%) SCADA
3 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.54%) Linux
2 12 (16.90%) Windows
3 1 (1.41%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (52.11%) DevOps
2 31 (43.66%) CI/CD
3 28 (39.44%) Containerisation
4 26 (36.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (30.99%) Microservices
7 20 (28.17%) Decision-Making
8 19 (26.76%) Agile
8 19 (26.76%) Scrum
9 18 (25.35%) TDD
10 16 (22.54%) Kanban
11 15 (21.13%) High Availability
11 15 (21.13%) Roadmaps
12 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (18.31%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (18.31%) Open Source
14 12 (16.90%) BDD
14 12 (16.90%) BPMN
14 12 (16.90%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) Python
2 19 (26.76%) SQL
3 18 (25.35%) Java
4 16 (22.54%) Bash
5 15 (21.13%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.41%) Go
7 1 (1.41%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 49 (69.01%) Security Cleared
2 47 (66.20%) SC Cleared
3 15 (21.13%) AWS Certification
4 7 (9.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.45%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) COBIT
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.41%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (39.44%) Docker
2 11 (15.49%) Postfix
3 9 (12.68%) Squid
4 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (53.52%) Terraform
2 32 (45.07%) Grafana
3 24 (33.80%) Prometheus
4 21 (29.58%) Kubernetes
5 9 (12.68%) Ansible
5 9 (12.68%) FortiGate
5 9 (12.68%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (9.86%) Consul
7 3 (4.23%) HAProxy
7 3 (4.23%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.41%) Argo
9 1 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.41%) Istio
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.41%) Nessus
9 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) Atlassian
2 17 (23.94%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (19.72%) Infoblox
3 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
4 9 (12.68%) Dynatrace
4 9 (12.68%) Google
4 9 (12.68%) Red Hat
5 6 (8.45%) AVEVA
6 4 (5.63%) Cisco
7 2 (2.82%) Databricks
7 2 (2.82%) Globalscape
7 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.82%) Solace
7 2 (2.82%) Splunk
8 1 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.41%) jetNEXUS
8 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.41%) Tenable
8 1 (1.41%) Veracode