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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 488 540
Rank change year-on-year +22 +52 +105
Contract jobs citing Route 53 43 38 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.34% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 37
10th Percentile £430 £401 £440
25th Percentile £475 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £532 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +1.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £588
90th Percentile £693 £607 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £532 £525
% change year-on-year -1.36% +1.38% -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 10,272 11,266 15,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.54% 34.56% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,949 7,706 11,286
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 179 308
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.23 £14.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £29.04 £30.73 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.52% -12.19% +62.79%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Route 53 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Route 53 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +23 21 £550 +2.23% 4
West Midlands +3 20 £475 +35.71%
Midlands -1 20 £475 +35.71%
North of England -17 6 £575 +28.49% 2
North West -12 5 £575 +28.49%
South East +26 2 £500 -15.97%
East of England +5 1 £675 +22.73% 1
Yorkshire -13 1 £500 - 2
Route 53
UK

Route 53
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (32.56%) nginx
2 13 (30.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (76.74%) Amazon EC2
3 30 (69.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 29 (67.44%) Amazon S3
5 23 (53.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 21 (48.84%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (48.84%) AWS KMS
7 15 (34.88%) Azure
8 13 (30.23%) Amazon ELB
8 13 (30.23%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (27.91%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (27.91%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (27.91%) Serverless
10 11 (25.58%) GitHub
11 7 (16.28%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (16.28%) Datadog
12 6 (13.95%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (11.63%) Apigee
13 5 (11.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (39.53%) Firewall
2 16 (37.21%) DNS
3 12 (27.91%) IMAP
3 12 (27.91%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (27.91%) SMTP
3 12 (27.91%) SSH
4 10 (23.26%) FTP
4 10 (23.26%) HTTP
5 2 (4.65%) VPN
6 1 (2.33%) DHCP
6 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.33%) LAN
6 1 (2.33%) VLAN
6 1 (2.33%) VSAN
6 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (74.42%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (60.47%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (58.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (30.23%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
5 5 (11.63%) MySQL
5 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
5 5 (11.63%) RDBMS
5 5 (11.63%) Redis
5 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (74.42%) Jenkins
2 29 (67.44%) Git
3 14 (32.56%) Maven
3 14 (32.56%) SonarQube
4 13 (30.23%) JIRA
5 12 (27.91%) Vagrant
6 8 (18.60%) JUnit
7 6 (13.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (13.95%) DbUnit
7 6 (13.95%) GitLab
7 6 (13.95%) jMock
7 6 (13.95%) Mockito
8 5 (11.63%) Gradle
8 5 (11.63%) SonarLint
9 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 20 (46.51%) Public Sector
2 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Finance
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.33%) Police
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (37.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (32.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (27.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 12 (27.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 12 (27.91%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (25.58%) Architect
6 10 (23.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 8 (18.60%) Developer
7 8 (18.60%) Java Developer
8 6 (13.95%) AWS Architect
9 5 (11.63%) Java Architect
9 5 (11.63%) Java Technical Architect
9 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (11.63%) Technical Architect
10 4 (9.30%) AWS Developer
11 3 (6.98%) AWS Solution Architect
11 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
12 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) RESTful
1 13 (30.23%) Spring Boot
2 12 (27.91%) LDAP
3 9 (20.93%) REST
3 9 (20.93%) Spring
4 8 (18.60%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (18.60%) Hibernate
4 8 (18.60%) JPA
4 8 (18.60%) SOAP
4 8 (18.60%) Spring Batch
4 8 (18.60%) Spring Integration
4 8 (18.60%) Web Services
5 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
6 6 (13.95%) Bootstrap
6 6 (13.95%) PowerMock
6 6 (13.95%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (11.63%) Dropwizard
7 5 (11.63%) J2EE
7 5 (11.63%) JWT
7 5 (11.63%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Replication
2 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.63%) N-Tier
4 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.65%) PKI
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (53.49%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (30.23%) Windows
4 12 (27.91%) VMS
5 11 (25.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.33%) SUSE
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) DevOps
2 27 (62.79%) CI/CD
3 17 (39.53%) Agile
4 15 (34.88%) Cloud Security
5 14 (32.56%) Change Management
5 14 (32.56%) Containerisation
6 13 (30.23%) Configuration Management
6 13 (30.23%) Microservices
6 13 (30.23%) Patch Management
6 13 (30.23%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (30.23%) TDD
7 12 (27.91%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (25.58%) BDD
8 11 (25.58%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (23.26%) Scrum
10 8 (18.60%) Kanban
10 8 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (16.28%) Risk Management
12 6 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 6 (13.95%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 22 (51.16%) SQL
3 16 (37.21%) PowerShell
4 14 (32.56%) Java
5 13 (30.23%) Groovy
6 6 (13.95%) Bash
7 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (69.77%) Security Cleared
2 28 (65.12%) SC Cleared
3 15 (34.88%) AWS Certification
4 10 (23.26%) Azure Certification
4 10 (23.26%) Degree
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 30 (69.77%) Docker
2 18 (41.86%) Postfix
3 12 (27.91%) Dovecot
3 12 (27.91%) Squid
4 10 (23.26%) DFS Replication
5 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (65.12%) Terraform
2 20 (46.51%) Grafana
2 20 (46.51%) Prometheus
3 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
4 12 (27.91%) Nessus
5 10 (23.26%) Proxmox
6 3 (6.98%) Ansible
6 3 (6.98%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.98%) Puppet
7 2 (4.65%) FortiGate
7 2 (4.65%) Kibana
7 2 (4.65%) Packer
8 1 (2.33%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (41.86%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (27.91%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.95%) Atlassian
4 5 (11.63%) Gigya
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) Veeam
5 1 (2.33%) VMware