Route 53 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 177 202
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 +61
Contract jobs citing Route 53 2 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.056% 0.046% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.17% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £580 -
25th Percentile - £581 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +13.33% -19.23%
75th Percentile - £608 £538
90th Percentile - £609 £544
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,141 1,180 1,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.90% 27.20% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 792 1,117
10th Percentile £204 £281 £206
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £663 £663 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.29% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 22 49
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.45 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.44 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.16 £47.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.77% +75.93% +28.57%
75th Percentile £27.56 £60.95 £61.88
90th Percentile £40.65 £64.73 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +43.64%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Route 53 job vacancy trend in the South East

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Berkshire - 1 £500 -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Thames Valley - 1 £500 -
Route 53
England

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Akamai
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (50.00%) DbUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) jMock
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Jaspersoft