Route 53 Contract Job Trends in the North East

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Route 53 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.28% 0.68% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 2.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £454 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.65% - -
England median daily rate £500 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 152 97 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 42.58% 32.99% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 50 58
10th Percentile £300 £266 £163
25th Percentile £400 £359 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £457 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% +14.25% -29.20%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £516
90th Percentile £700 £650 £582
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £38.55 - £15.95
25th Percentile £42.38 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £50.25 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% +42.09% +44.44%
75th Percentile £54.06 - £46.18
90th Percentile £54.63 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +45.45%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Route 53 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Route 53 job vacancy trend in the North East

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Route 53.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Route 53

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Tyne and Wear -10 1 £575 +26.65%
Route 53
England

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform