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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 438 493
Rank change year-on-year -64 +55 +97
Contract jobs citing Route 53 64 52 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 0.54% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 51
10th Percentile £436 £454 £386
25th Percentile £463 £584 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.70% +35.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £591 £700 £638
90th Percentile £639 - £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 13,242 9,623 12,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.55% 37.62% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,147 6,507 8,922
10th Percentile £307 £313 £275
25th Percentile £407 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 148 318
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.38 £14.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year +43.64% +28.03% -14.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.98 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.65% +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 25 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 25 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 -35 44 £550 -18.52% 6
West Midlands -43 15 £475 - 4
Midlands -51 15 £475 - 4
East of England - 6 £510 -
North of England -62 4 £521 -5.57% 6
Yorkshire -58 3 £518 -20.38% 1
North East -16 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 12 (18.75%) Confluence
2 11 (17.19%) nginx
3 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 64 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 43 (67.19%) Amazon EC2
4 42 (65.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 32 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 28 (43.75%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (43.75%) Serverless
7 26 (40.63%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (35.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (28.13%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (25.00%) Azure
11 14 (21.88%) GitHub
12 13 (20.31%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (20.31%) AWS KMS
13 11 (17.19%) AWS Direct Connect
14 10 (15.63%) GCP
15 9 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (9.38%) Amazon ELB
17 4 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 4 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 30 (46.88%) DNS
2 22 (34.38%) Firewall
3 19 (29.69%) VPN
4 12 (18.75%) TCP/IP
5 8 (12.50%) OpenVPN
6 6 (9.38%) BGP
6 6 (9.38%) OSPF
7 4 (6.25%) Kerberos
7 4 (6.25%) NGFW
7 4 (6.25%) WAN
8 3 (4.69%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (4.69%) DHCP
8 3 (4.69%) FTP
8 3 (4.69%) HTTP
8 3 (4.69%) IMAP
8 3 (4.69%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (4.69%) SMTP
8 3 (4.69%) SSH
8 3 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (4.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (48.44%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (34.38%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (26.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (26.56%) DynamoDB
4 8 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (12.50%) MySQL
5 5 (7.81%) DocumentDB
6 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.25%) Redis
7 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.69%) Big Data
7 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
7 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (3.13%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.13%) Impala
Development Applications
1 34 (53.13%) Jenkins
2 17 (26.56%) SonarQube
3 16 (25.00%) GitLab
4 15 (23.44%) Git
5 12 (18.75%) JIRA
6 10 (15.63%) Maven
7 9 (14.06%) JUnit
7 9 (14.06%) Mockito
8 7 (10.94%) Bitbucket
8 7 (10.94%) DbUnit
8 7 (10.94%) jMock
9 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (6.25%) CircleCI
11 3 (4.69%) Vagrant
12 1 (1.56%) AppScan
12 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.56%) Burp Suite
12 1 (1.56%) Metasploit
12 1 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (48.44%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Finance
5 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Advertising
8 1 (1.56%) Games
8 1 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Architect
2 14 (21.88%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) AWS Architect
4 12 (18.75%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (14.06%) Developer
5 9 (14.06%) Java Developer
6 8 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Technical Architect
8 5 (7.81%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (7.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Administrator
9 4 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
9 4 (6.25%) Java Architect
9 4 (6.25%) Lead
9 4 (6.25%) Network Architect
10 3 (4.69%) Network Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) REST
1 14 (21.88%) Spring
2 13 (20.31%) Hibernate
2 13 (20.31%) JPA
2 13 (20.31%) OpenID
2 13 (20.31%) Spring Boot
2 13 (20.31%) Spring Cloud
3 12 (18.75%) LDAP
4 10 (15.63%) AngularJS
4 10 (15.63%) RESTful
4 10 (15.63%) SOAP
5 9 (14.06%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (14.06%) Spring Batch
5 9 (14.06%) Spring Integration
5 9 (14.06%) Web Services
6 8 (12.50%) Kafka
6 8 (12.50%) Node.js
7 7 (10.94%) PowerMock
8 6 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (7.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (17.19%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.38%) Replication
4 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.69%) SCADA
5 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.56%) NHS
7 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.44%) Linux
2 10 (15.63%) Windows
3 6 (9.38%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.69%) VMS
5 1 (1.56%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (57.81%) DevOps
2 34 (53.13%) CI/CD
3 28 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (42.19%) Containerisation
5 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (29.69%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (20.31%) Microservices
7 13 (20.31%) Observability
7 13 (20.31%) Roadmaps
7 13 (20.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (18.75%) Decision-Making
9 11 (17.19%) Agile
9 11 (17.19%) Cost Optimisation
10 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
11 9 (14.06%) Auto-Scaling
11 9 (14.06%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (14.06%) Scrum
11 9 (14.06%) TDD
12 8 (12.50%) BPMN
12 8 (12.50%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) Python
2 17 (26.56%) SQL
3 14 (21.88%) Java
4 8 (12.50%) Bash
4 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.81%) Go
6 4 (6.25%) Groovy
7 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.56%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 30 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 29 (45.31%) SC Cleared
3 16 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (9.38%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Degree
8 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.56%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.56%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (7.81%) NIST
1 5 (7.81%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 3 (4.69%) GDPR
4 2 (3.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.56%) COBIT
5 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (56.25%) Docker
2 11 (17.19%) Squid
3 9 (14.06%) Postfix
4 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.69%) DFS Replication
5 3 (4.69%) Dovecot
6 2 (3.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (67.19%) Terraform
2 24 (37.50%) Grafana
3 22 (34.38%) Prometheus
4 21 (32.81%) Kubernetes
5 10 (15.63%) Ansible
6 8 (12.50%) FortiGate
6 8 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (10.94%) Consul
8 4 (6.25%) Nessus
9 3 (4.69%) HAProxy
9 3 (4.69%) Packer
9 3 (4.69%) Proxmox
9 3 (4.69%) Stealthwatch
10 2 (3.13%) Argo
10 2 (3.13%) Karpenter
10 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.56%) Nagios
11 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Atlassian
2 12 (18.75%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (17.19%) Splunk
4 8 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 8 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 6 (9.38%) AVEVA
6 4 (6.25%) Cloudera
6 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
7 3 (4.69%) Cisco
7 3 (4.69%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.69%) Infoblox
7 3 (4.69%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.13%) Databricks
8 2 (3.13%) Globalscape
8 2 (3.13%) Google
8 2 (3.13%) SAP
8 2 (3.13%) Solace
9 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.56%) LogRhythm