Route 53 Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Route 53 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 381 415
Rank change year-on-year +34 +34 +100
Contract jobs citing Route 53 21 17 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.26% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 22
10th Percentile £465 £468 £416
25th Percentile £513 £510 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £567 £625
90th Percentile £704 £594 £675
England median daily rate £500 £532 £525
% change year-on-year -6.06% +1.38% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,764 6,614 8,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.23% 41.24% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,924 4,623 6,514
10th Percentile £340 £350 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -1.03%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £785
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 65
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -24.47% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £88.62
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Route 53 in London

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Route 53.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Route 53

Route 53
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Route 53 in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Route 53 in London

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South London -2 12 £590 +9.62%
Route 53
England

Route 53
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (57.14%) nginx
2 10 (47.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 14 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 13 (61.90%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (52.38%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (52.38%) AWS KMS
6 10 (47.62%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (47.62%) Azure
6 10 (47.62%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (19.05%) Serverless
8 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (14.29%) GitHub
9 2 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) Firewall
2 13 (61.90%) DNS
3 12 (57.14%) SSH
4 10 (47.62%) FTP
4 10 (47.62%) HTTP
4 10 (47.62%) IMAP
4 10 (47.62%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (47.62%) SMTP
5 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (52.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (52.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 13 (61.90%) Git
3 10 (47.62%) JIRA
3 10 (47.62%) Vagrant
4 3 (14.29%) GitLab
5 2 (9.52%) Maven
5 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (4.76%) DbUnit
6 1 (4.76%) jMock
6 1 (4.76%) JUnit
6 1 (4.76%) Mockito
General
1 12 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
3 10 (47.62%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Police
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (47.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 10 (47.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (47.62%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (42.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (38.10%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Architect
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Architect
7 2 (9.52%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) LDAP
2 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.52%) OAuth
2 2 (9.52%) OAuth2
2 2 (9.52%) REST
2 2 (9.52%) SAML
2 2 (9.52%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
3 1 (4.76%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.76%) JPA
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) PowerMock
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) SOAP
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Batch
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Integration
3 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Linux
2 12 (57.14%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (52.38%) Windows
4 10 (47.62%) Ubuntu
4 10 (47.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) DevOps
2 16 (76.19%) CI/CD
3 12 (57.14%) Patch Management
4 11 (52.38%) Cloud Security
5 10 (47.62%) Change Management
5 10 (47.62%) Configuration Management
5 10 (47.62%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (47.62%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) Agile
7 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (14.29%) Kanban
7 3 (14.29%) Scrum
8 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
8 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (9.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
8 2 (9.52%) Protective Monitoring
8 2 (9.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 2 (9.52%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 11 (52.38%) Groovy
3 11 (52.38%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) Bash
5 2 (9.52%) Java
5 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) SC Cleared
1 17 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) AWS Certification
3 10 (47.62%) Azure Certification
3 10 (47.62%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Docker
2 11 (52.38%) Postfix
3 10 (47.62%) DFS Replication
3 10 (47.62%) Dovecot
3 10 (47.62%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (76.19%) Terraform
2 11 (52.38%) Grafana
2 11 (52.38%) Prometheus
3 10 (47.62%) Nessus
3 10 (47.62%) Proxmox
4 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
5 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
5 2 (9.52%) Kibana
5 2 (9.52%) Packer
6 1 (4.76%) Ansible
6 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (47.62%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian