Route 53 Contracts in England

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Route 53 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Route 53 over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 497 575
Rank change year-on-year +30 +78 +87
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Route 53 44 36 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.32% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 36
10th Percentile £450 £409 £438
25th Percentile £500 £475 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +0.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £586 £569 £641
90th Percentile £689 £599 £681
UK median daily rate £550 £526 £538
% change year-on-year +4.61% -2.19% -2.27%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,269 11,244 15,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.20% 33.86% 36.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,953 7,888 11,644
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £643 £660
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 194 304
10th Percentile £15.11 £14.16 £15.06
25th Percentile £18.51 £17.72 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £27.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -18.18% +54.21%
75th Percentile £43.75 £56.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £79.06
UK median hourly rate £27.75 £27.00 £35.13
% change year-on-year +2.78% -23.13% +66.86%

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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +28 21 £550 +4.12% 5
West Midlands +9 17 £475 +35.71%
Midlands +1 17 £475 +35.71%
North of England -16 6 £575 +28.49% 6
North West -6 5 £575 +28.49% 4
South East +16 2 £500 -15.97%
East of England +3 1 £675 +22.73% 1
Yorkshire - 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 11 (25.00%) nginx
2 10 (22.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (79.55%) Amazon EC2
3 30 (68.18%) Amazon S3
4 26 (59.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (56.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (40.91%) AWS KMS
7 17 (38.64%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (29.55%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (29.55%) Azure
9 12 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (27.27%) Serverless
10 11 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
11 10 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (22.73%) GitHub
12 9 (20.45%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (15.91%) Datadog
14 6 (13.64%) Amazon EventBridge
15 5 (11.36%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (11.36%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 18 (40.91%) Firewall
2 17 (38.64%) DNS
3 9 (20.45%) IMAP
3 9 (20.45%) OpenLDAP
3 9 (20.45%) SMTP
3 9 (20.45%) SSH
4 7 (15.91%) FTP
4 7 (15.91%) HTTP
5 6 (13.64%) VPN
6 1 (2.27%) DHCP
6 1 (2.27%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.27%) LAN
6 1 (2.27%) NAS
6 1 (2.27%) SAN
6 1 (2.27%) VLAN
6 1 (2.27%) VSAN
6 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (52.27%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (29.55%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.36%) BigQuery
5 5 (11.36%) MySQL
5 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
5 5 (11.36%) RDBMS
5 5 (11.36%) Redis
5 5 (11.36%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (65.91%) Git
2 28 (63.64%) Jenkins
3 13 (29.55%) Maven
3 13 (29.55%) SonarQube
4 10 (22.73%) JIRA
5 9 (20.45%) Vagrant
6 8 (18.18%) JUnit
7 6 (13.64%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (13.64%) DbUnit
7 6 (13.64%) jMock
7 6 (13.64%) Mockito
8 5 (11.36%) GitLab
8 5 (11.36%) Gradle
8 5 (11.36%) SonarLint
9 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.27%) Police
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) Architect
2 13 (29.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 11 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (18.18%) AWS Architect
5 8 (18.18%) Developer
5 8 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 8 (18.18%) Java Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Java Architect
6 5 (11.36%) Java Technical Architect
6 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Technical Architect
7 4 (9.09%) AWS Developer
8 3 (6.82%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) RESTful
1 13 (29.55%) Spring Boot
2 9 (20.45%) LDAP
2 9 (20.45%) REST
3 8 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
3 8 (18.18%) Hibernate
3 8 (18.18%) JPA
3 8 (18.18%) SOAP
3 8 (18.18%) Spring
3 8 (18.18%) Spring Batch
3 8 (18.18%) Spring Integration
3 8 (18.18%) Web Services
4 6 (13.64%) AngularJS
4 6 (13.64%) Bootstrap
4 6 (13.64%) PowerMock
4 6 (13.64%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (11.36%) Dropwizard
5 5 (11.36%) J2EE
5 5 (11.36%) JWT
5 5 (11.36%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Replication
2 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.36%) N-Tier
4 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.55%) PKI
6 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (54.55%) Linux
2 15 (34.09%) Windows
3 11 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (20.45%) VMS
5 8 (18.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.27%) SUSE
6 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) CI/CD
2 25 (56.82%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) Agile
4 15 (34.09%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (29.55%) Containerisation
5 13 (29.55%) Microservices
5 13 (29.55%) TDD
6 12 (27.27%) Cloud Security
7 11 (25.00%) BDD
7 11 (25.00%) Change Management
8 10 (22.73%) Configuration Management
8 10 (22.73%) Patch Management
8 10 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (22.73%) Scrum
9 9 (20.45%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (18.18%) Kanban
10 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (15.91%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (15.91%) Risk Management
12 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 27 (61.36%) Python
2 19 (43.18%) SQL
3 17 (38.64%) PowerShell
4 13 (29.55%) Java
5 9 (20.45%) Bash
5 9 (20.45%) Groovy
6 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 30 (68.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 7 (15.91%) Azure Certification
4 7 (15.91%) Degree
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) GDPR
1 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 26 (59.09%) Docker
2 15 (34.09%) Postfix
3 9 (20.45%) Dovecot
3 9 (20.45%) Squid
4 7 (15.91%) DFS Replication
5 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (63.64%) Terraform
2 17 (38.64%) Grafana
2 17 (38.64%) Prometheus
3 13 (29.55%) Kubernetes
4 9 (20.45%) Nessus
5 7 (15.91%) Ansible
5 7 (15.91%) Progress Chef
5 7 (15.91%) Proxmox
5 7 (15.91%) Puppet
6 2 (4.55%) FortiGate
6 2 (4.55%) Kibana
6 2 (4.55%) Packer
7 1 (2.27%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (20.45%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.64%) Atlassian
4 5 (11.36%) Gigya
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.55%) VMware
6 1 (2.27%) Veeam