Route 53 Contract Job Trends in the South West

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 111 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing Route 53 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.030% 0.060% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £630 £518
% change year-on-year -12.70% +21.74% -3.72%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 869 509 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.72% 30.42% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 370 614
10th Percentile £300 £230 £213
25th Percentile £408 £364 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £618 £600
90th Percentile £688 £685 £675
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 29 35
10th Percentile £14.12 £18.13 £12.60
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -10.14% -61.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £34.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Route 53 job vacancy trend in the South West

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. 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
Wiltshire -9 1 £450 -30.77%
Route 53
England

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto