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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 469 487
Rank change year-on-year -125 +18 +74
Contract jobs citing Route 53 46 45 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.43% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 25
10th Percentile £464 £450 £409
25th Percentile £508 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £527
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +2.09% +0.29%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £569
90th Percentile £640 £689 £599
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £526
% change year-on-year - +4.61% +0.14%

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 16,022 10,351 11,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.90% 37.32% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,711 7,007 7,899
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 275 207
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.31 £18.51 £16.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -3.60% -18.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.08 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year +21.88% +3.82% -22.94%

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 23 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 23 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 -92 18 £575 +4.55% 2
Midlands -50 13 £477 +0.42% 1
West Midlands -56 12 £477 +0.42% 1
South East -58 12 £568 +13.60% 1
East of England -17 2 - -
North West -46 1 £420 -26.96%
North of England -64 1 £420 -26.96%
South West - 1 £450 - 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 3 (6.52%) Confluence
1 3 (6.52%) nginx
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (56.52%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (54.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (52.17%) Amazon S3
5 20 (43.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (41.30%) Azure
7 15 (32.61%) Serverless
8 14 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (28.26%) AWS KMS
9 13 (28.26%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (26.09%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (26.09%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (26.09%) GitHub
11 11 (23.91%) GCP
12 9 (19.57%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (15.22%) AWS Direct Connect
14 6 (13.04%) AWS CloudTrail
15 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECR
15 5 (10.87%) AWS Control Tower
16 4 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 17 (36.96%) DNS
2 13 (28.26%) TCP/IP
3 11 (23.91%) Firewall
4 10 (21.74%) DNSSEC
5 8 (17.39%) DHCP
5 8 (17.39%) Network Security
6 5 (10.87%) VPN
7 2 (4.35%) BGP
7 2 (4.35%) OpenVPN
8 1 (2.17%) BIG-IP
8 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.17%) HTTPS
8 1 (2.17%) LAN
8 1 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (2.17%) SSL
8 1 (2.17%) tcpdump
8 1 (2.17%) VLAN
8 1 (2.17%) WAN
8 1 (2.17%) Wireless
8 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (43.48%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (30.43%) Amazon Aurora
2 14 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (26.09%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 21 (45.65%) Jenkins
2 17 (36.96%) Git
3 13 (28.26%) SonarQube
4 12 (26.09%) Maven
5 11 (23.91%) JUnit
5 11 (23.91%) Mockito
6 9 (19.57%) GitLab
7 8 (17.39%) DbUnit
8 7 (15.22%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (15.22%) jMock
9 3 (6.52%) JIRA
10 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
11 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.22%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Games
6 1 (2.17%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (52.17%) Architect
2 11 (23.91%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.57%) AWS Architect
4 8 (17.39%) Senior
5 6 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Senior Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Technical Architect
6 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Network Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (56.52%) Terraform
2 11 (23.91%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (23.91%) Hibernate
2 11 (23.91%) JPA
2 11 (23.91%) RESTful
2 11 (23.91%) SOAP
2 11 (23.91%) Spring
2 11 (23.91%) Spring Batch
2 11 (23.91%) Spring Boot
2 11 (23.91%) Spring Integration
2 11 (23.91%) Web Services
3 10 (21.74%) AngularJS
3 10 (21.74%) REST
4 9 (19.57%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (15.22%) Bootstrap
5 7 (15.22%) PowerMock
6 5 (10.87%) Node.js
6 5 (10.87%) OpenID
7 4 (8.70%) SAML
8 3 (6.52%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 8 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Replication
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) DevOps
2 22 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
4 17 (36.96%) Containerisation
5 15 (32.61%) Microservices
6 12 (26.09%) Agile
6 12 (26.09%) High Availability
6 12 (26.09%) Scrum
7 11 (23.91%) Decision-Making
7 11 (23.91%) Kanban
7 11 (23.91%) TDD
8 10 (21.74%) Load Balancing
8 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (19.57%) DDoS Mitigation
9 9 (19.57%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 16 (34.78%) Bash
3 15 (32.61%) PowerShell
4 14 (30.43%) SQL
5 11 (23.91%) Java
6 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.17%) R
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (76.09%) Security Cleared
2 33 (71.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) CCNP
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 18 (39.13%) Docker
2 6 (13.04%) Postfix
3 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (41.30%) Grafana
2 13 (28.26%) Kubernetes
2 13 (28.26%) Prometheus
3 6 (13.04%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
5 1 (2.17%) Consul
5 1 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Istio
5 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.91%) Infoblox
3 10 (21.74%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (19.57%) Atlassian
4 9 (19.57%) Google
5 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco
7 1 (2.17%) F5
7 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.17%) Sonatype
7 1 (2.17%) TOWER Software