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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 422 479
Rank change year-on-year -92 +57 +117
Contract jobs citing Route 53 66 49 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 0.53% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 35 49
10th Percentile £438 £518 £384
25th Percentile £463 £549 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +42.11% -11.63%
75th Percentile £588 £694 £569
90th Percentile £638 £700 £694
UK median daily rate £550 £582 £475
% change year-on-year -5.50% +22.53% -11.63%

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 13,785 9,218 12,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.82% 37.90% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,506 6,476 8,749
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 173 332
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £40.75
90th Percentile £80.06 £74.75 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +42.31% +23.81% -18.69%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -48 43 £556 -17.59% 7
West Midlands -53 12 £475 -
Midlands -59 12 £475 -
East of England - 8 £510 -
North of England - 5 £518 - 3
Yorkshire - 3 £518 -
North East - 1 £575 -
North West - 1 £420 - 3
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 9 (13.64%) Confluence
1 9 (13.64%) nginx
2 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (72.73%) Amazon S3
3 43 (65.15%) Amazon EC2
3 43 (65.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 31 (46.97%) AWS Lambda
4 31 (46.97%) Serverless
5 29 (43.94%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (42.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (34.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (24.24%) Azure
8 16 (24.24%) GitHub
9 15 (22.73%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (19.70%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (19.70%) AWS Direct Connect
11 12 (18.18%) GCP
12 11 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (15.15%) AWS KMS
14 4 (6.06%) AWS CodePipeline
14 4 (6.06%) AWS Control Tower
14 4 (6.06%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 30 (45.45%) DNS
2 22 (33.33%) VPN
3 21 (31.82%) Firewall
4 14 (21.21%) TCP/IP
5 9 (13.64%) OpenVPN
6 7 (10.61%) BGP
7 6 (9.09%) OSPF
8 4 (6.06%) DHCP
8 4 (6.06%) Kerberos
8 4 (6.06%) Network Security
8 4 (6.06%) NGFW
8 4 (6.06%) WAN
9 3 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (4.55%) Wireless
10 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.52%) Anycast
11 1 (1.52%) DMVPN
11 1 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (1.52%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (42.42%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (28.79%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (25.76%) DynamoDB
4 14 (21.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (12.12%) MySQL
7 5 (7.58%) DocumentDB
8 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
8 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
8 4 (6.06%) Redis
9 3 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.55%) Big Data
9 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
9 3 (4.55%) Hadoop
9 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
10 2 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (3.03%) Apache Hive
10 2 (3.03%) Impala
Development Applications
1 33 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 18 (27.27%) GitLab
3 16 (24.24%) SonarQube
4 12 (18.18%) Git
5 9 (13.64%) JIRA
5 9 (13.64%) JUnit
5 9 (13.64%) Maven
5 9 (13.64%) Mockito
6 7 (10.61%) Bitbucket
6 7 (10.61%) DbUnit
6 7 (10.61%) jMock
7 5 (7.58%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (6.06%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.52%) AppScan
9 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.52%) Metasploit
9 1 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Finance
6 3 (4.55%) Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) Games
8 1 (1.52%) Military
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (37.88%) Architect
2 15 (22.73%) AWS Architect
3 12 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (13.64%) Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Java Developer
5 7 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Network Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Technical Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Administrator
7 4 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Cloud Administrator
7 4 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Java Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Lead
7 4 (6.06%) Network Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.21%) REST
2 13 (19.70%) Hibernate
2 13 (19.70%) JPA
2 13 (19.70%) OpenID
2 13 (19.70%) Spring
2 13 (19.70%) Spring Boot
2 13 (19.70%) Spring Cloud
3 10 (15.15%) LDAP
3 10 (15.15%) RESTful
3 10 (15.15%) SOAP
4 9 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (13.64%) AngularJS
4 9 (13.64%) Spring Batch
4 9 (13.64%) Spring Integration
4 9 (13.64%) Web Services
5 8 (12.12%) Kafka
5 8 (12.12%) Node.js
6 7 (10.61%) PowerMock
7 6 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (7.58%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 11 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.55%) Replication
4 3 (4.55%) SCADA
4 3 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.52%) NHS
6 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.18%) Linux
2 7 (10.61%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.06%) DevOps
2 32 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 30 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (40.91%) Containerisation
5 22 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (24.24%) Performance Tuning
6 16 (24.24%) Roadmaps
7 15 (22.73%) Observability
8 14 (21.21%) Decision-Making
9 13 (19.70%) Microservices
9 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
11 10 (15.15%) Agile
11 10 (15.15%) Mentoring
12 9 (13.64%) Auto-Scaling
12 9 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (13.64%) Scrum
12 9 (13.64%) TDD
13 8 (12.12%) BPMN
13 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) Python
2 14 (21.21%) SQL
3 13 (19.70%) Java
4 8 (12.12%) Bash
5 5 (7.58%) Go
6 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.52%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 31 (46.97%) Security Cleared
2 29 (43.94%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.21%) AWS Certification
4 7 (10.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.52%) CCNP
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.52%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.52%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (7.58%) NIST
1 5 (7.58%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.06%) QA
3 3 (4.55%) GDPR
4 2 (3.03%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.52%) COBIT
5 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (51.52%) Docker
2 9 (13.64%) Squid
3 6 (9.09%) Postfix
4 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (65.15%) Terraform
2 26 (39.39%) Kubernetes
3 22 (33.33%) Grafana
4 20 (30.30%) Prometheus
5 11 (16.67%) Ansible
6 9 (13.64%) FortiGate
6 9 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (10.61%) Consul
8 3 (4.55%) HAProxy
8 3 (4.55%) Packer
8 3 (4.55%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (3.03%) Argo
9 2 (3.03%) Karpenter
9 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.52%) Nagios
10 1 (1.52%) Nessus
10 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) Atlassian
2 11 (16.67%) Splunk
3 9 (13.64%) Dynatrace
3 9 (13.64%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (13.64%) Red Hat
4 6 (9.09%) AVEVA
5 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.06%) Cloudera
6 4 (6.06%) Infoblox
7 3 (4.55%) Cisco
7 3 (4.55%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.55%) Google
7 3 (4.55%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.03%) Databricks
8 2 (3.03%) Globalscape
8 2 (3.03%) SAP
8 2 (3.03%) Solace
9 1 (1.52%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.52%) jetNEXUS
9 1 (1.52%) Tenable