Route 53 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 377 441
Rank change year-on-year +61 +64 +40
Contract jobs citing Route 53 18 26 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.13% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.48% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 11
10th Percentile £475 £409 £510
25th Percentile £488 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £545 £694 £675
90th Percentile £560 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £538
% change year-on-year +13.86% -6.05% +2.38%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,082 5,368 7,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.93% 25.98% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,890 3,804 5,903
10th Percentile £237 £213 £248
25th Percentile £388 £370 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 259 227
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +29.58%
75th Percentile £33.10 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £61.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Route 53 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Route 53 in the UK excluding London

Route 53
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Route 53 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Route 53 in the UK excluding London

Route 53
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Route 53 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Route 53 in the UK excluding London

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Scotland +21 9 £525 +0.57% 3
West Midlands +21 6 £500 +42.86% 3
Midlands +19 6 £500 +42.86% 6
South East +37 2 £500 -7.92% 11
South West - 1 £650 -
Route 53
UK

Route 53
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (88.89%) Amazon S3
3 12 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (55.56%) Serverless
5 7 (38.89%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (38.89%) AWS KMS
6 6 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 6 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
7 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (27.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (27.78%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (27.78%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (27.78%) SaaS
8 4 (22.22%) CloudFront
8 4 (22.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (38.89%) DynamoDB
4 6 (33.33%) Relational Database
5 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (16.67%) MySQL
6 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (11.11%) InfluxDB
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Git
3 7 (38.89%) JUnit
3 7 (38.89%) Mockito
4 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (22.22%) DbUnit
4 4 (22.22%) jMock
4 4 (22.22%) Maven
4 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
5 3 (16.67%) Artifactory
6 2 (11.11%) Ant
6 2 (11.11%) GitLab
6 2 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Java Developer
3 6 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Developer
5 3 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Lead
7 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Hibernate
1 7 (38.89%) REST
1 7 (38.89%) RESTful
1 7 (38.89%) Spring
1 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
1 7 (38.89%) Web Services
2 6 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 5 (27.78%) Node.js
4 4 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 4 (22.22%) Bootstrap
4 4 (22.22%) JPA
4 4 (22.22%) PowerMock
4 4 (22.22%) SOAP
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Batch
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Cloud
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Integration
5 3 (16.67%) HTML
5 3 (16.67%) jQuery
5 3 (16.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 10 (55.56%) Kanban
3 10 (55.56%) Scrum
4 7 (38.89%) BDD
4 7 (38.89%) Microservices
4 7 (38.89%) TDD
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) API Development
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 4 (22.22%) Open Source
6 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
6 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
7 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) Bash
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
5 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 3 (16.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) OCP
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (38.89%) Grafana
3 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (16.67%) Kibana
5 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
1 4 (22.22%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (11.11%) Imperva
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce