Route 53 Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 165 192
Rank change year-on-year -14 +27 +48
Contract jobs citing Route 53 6 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.097% 0.096%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.31% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £513 £341 -
25th Percentile £531 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £448 £525
Median % change year-on-year +28.49% -14.76% -
75th Percentile £585 £486 £606
90th Percentile £587 - £648
England median daily rate £525 £527 £525
% change year-on-year -0.28% +0.29% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,350 1,287 1,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.65% 31.15% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 870 1,314
10th Percentile £300 £288 £263
25th Percentile £380 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £479 £503
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -4.72% +0.55%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £599
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 44 60
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.09 £15.75
25th Percentile £12.82 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.56 £16.06 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +115.16% -41.28% +21.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £33.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £89.38 £66.23 £57.06
England median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £32.32
% change year-on-year +9.24% -26.36% +50.33%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Route 53 in the North of England

Route 53
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Route 53 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Route 53 in the North of England

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -5 5 £575 +28.49% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 1
Route 53
England

Route 53
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) GitHub
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (83.33%) Apigee
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (83.33%) Datadog
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Loggly
3 4 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) PaaS
3 4 (66.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (83.33%) BigQuery
2 5 (83.33%) DynamoDB
2 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
2 5 (83.33%) Redis
2 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Git
2 5 (83.33%) Gradle
2 5 (83.33%) Maven
2 5 (83.33%) SonarLint
2 5 (83.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Java Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Java Technical Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Dropwizard
1 5 (83.33%) J2EE
1 5 (83.33%) JWT
1 5 (83.33%) Micronaut
1 5 (83.33%) RESTful
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) Celery
3 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (83.33%) N-Tier
2 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) API Design
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) BDD
2 5 (83.33%) Clean Code
2 5 (83.33%) CQRS
2 5 (83.33%) Design Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) OOP
2 5 (83.33%) OWASP
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) TOGAF
2 5 (83.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Gigya