Route 53 Contract Job Trends in the North West

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 116 135
Rank change year-on-year -24 +19 +50
Contract jobs citing Route 53 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.21% 0.085% 0.073%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £563 - -
25th Percentile £564 £313 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £325 £525
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% -38.10% -5.62%
75th Percentile £586 £338 £538
90th Percentile £587 - -
England median daily rate £500 £558 £525
% change year-on-year -10.31% +6.19% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 818 723 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.05% 30.77% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 451 765
10th Percentile £303 £303 £265
25th Percentile £363 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £489 £495
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% -1.21% -1.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 55
10th Percentile £13.66 £17.44 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.31 £36.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +9.09% -49.23%
75th Percentile £67.75 £69.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.01 £75.70 £58.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Route 53 job vacancy trend in the North West

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Manchester -4 5 £575 +76.92% 2
Route 53
England

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (100.00%) Apigee
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (100.00%) Datadog
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
1 5 (100.00%) Loggly
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) PaaS
2 4 (80.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 5 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (100.00%) Redis
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Gradle
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) SonarLint
1 5 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Java Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Dropwizard
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) JWT
1 5 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) Celery
3 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (100.00%) N-Tier
2 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) API Design
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) CQRS
1 5 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 5 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) OOP
1 5 (100.00%) OWASP
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 5 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Gigya