Route 53 Contracts

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 513 647
Rank change year-on-year +58 +134 +62
Contract jobs citing Route 53 65 69 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.49% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 59 58
10th Percentile £475 £379 £421
25th Percentile £513 £409 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £505 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -6.05% +1.90%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £675
90th Percentile £700 £694 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +31.58%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Route 53 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Route 53.

Daily rate trend for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Route 53 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Route 53.

Hourly rate trend for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +42 46 £640 +21.90% 48
London +34 27 £675 +50.00% 35
Work from Home +31 25 £560 +9.59% 19
UK excluding London +55 18 £525 -4.55% 16
Scotland +21 9 £525 +0.57% 1
Midlands +27 6 £500 +42.86% 3
West Midlands +19 6 £500 +42.86%
South East +43 2 £500 -7.92% 7
South West - 1 £650 -

Route 53
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.15%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.62%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (75.38%) Amazon EC2
3 44 (67.69%) Amazon S3
4 23 (35.38%) Serverless
5 21 (32.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (26.15%) CloudFront
8 16 (24.62%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (21.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 13 (20.00%) Azure
11 12 (18.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (18.46%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (16.92%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (16.92%) AWS KMS
12 11 (16.92%) Entra ID
13 10 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (12.31%) GitHub
14 8 (12.31%) SaaS
15 7 (10.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (27.69%) DNS
1 18 (27.69%) VPN
2 14 (21.54%) Firewall
3 10 (15.38%) DHCP
3 10 (15.38%) LAN
3 10 (15.38%) WAN
4 4 (6.15%) Kerberos
5 3 (4.62%) IPsec
5 3 (4.62%) SSL
6 1 (1.54%) HTTP
6 1 (1.54%) NAS
6 1 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (36.92%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (35.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (24.62%) NoSQL
3 16 (24.62%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (21.54%) DocumentDB
5 12 (18.46%) Redis
6 10 (15.38%) DynamoDB
7 7 (10.77%) MongoDB
8 6 (9.23%) MySQL
8 6 (9.23%) Relational Database
8 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
9 5 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (6.15%) Big Data
11 3 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (4.62%) Hadoop
11 3 (4.62%) InfluxDB
11 3 (4.62%) RDBMS
12 2 (3.08%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (3.08%) Impala
12 2 (3.08%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Git
1 16 (24.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.85%) GitLab
3 7 (10.77%) JUnit
3 7 (10.77%) Maven
3 7 (10.77%) Mockito
4 6 (9.23%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.15%) Artifactory
5 4 (6.15%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (6.15%) DbUnit
5 4 (6.15%) jMock
6 3 (4.62%) JIRA
7 2 (3.08%) Ant
7 2 (3.08%) webpack
General
1 16 (24.62%) Finance
2 13 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.46%) Banking
3 12 (18.46%) Retail Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Architect
2 16 (24.62%) Developer
3 11 (16.92%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) Active Directory Architect
4 8 (12.31%) Wintel Architect
5 7 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Java Developer
6 6 (9.23%) AWS Architect
6 6 (9.23%) C# Developer
7 5 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (6.15%) AWS Developer
8 4 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Lead
9 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Technical Architect
10 2 (3.08%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.23%) RESTful
2 12 (18.46%) GraphQL
2 12 (18.46%) REST
3 11 (16.92%) Web Services
4 10 (15.38%) Spring
4 10 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 9 (13.85%) Node.js
6 7 (10.77%) AWS CDK
6 7 (10.77%) Hibernate
7 6 (9.23%) OAuth
8 5 (7.69%) SOAP
9 4 (6.15%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
9 4 (6.15%) Bootstrap
9 4 (6.15%) HTML
9 4 (6.15%) JPA
9 4 (6.15%) JSON
9 4 (6.15%) PowerMock
9 4 (6.15%) Spring Batch
9 4 (6.15%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Derivative
2 10 (15.38%) PKI
3 7 (10.77%) Public Cloud
4 6 (9.23%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.69%) Windows
2 15 (23.08%) Linux
3 10 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.54%) CentOS
6 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 28 (43.08%) Agile
3 18 (27.69%) DevOps
4 16 (24.62%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (24.62%) TDD
5 15 (23.08%) Microservices
6 14 (21.54%) Migration
6 14 (21.54%) Scrum
7 13 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 13 (20.00%) Kanban
8 12 (18.46%) Asset Management
8 12 (18.46%) SOLID
9 10 (15.38%) Patch Management
9 10 (15.38%) RBAC
10 9 (13.85%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (10.77%) BDD
11 7 (10.77%) Decision-Making
11 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (9.23%) Secure Coding
12 6 (9.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.92%) Python
2 19 (29.23%) SQL
3 18 (27.69%) PowerShell
4 15 (23.08%) Bash
4 15 (23.08%) Java
5 13 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 12 (18.46%) C#
7 8 (12.31%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.15%) Groovy
9 3 (4.62%) Scala
10 2 (3.08%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 24 (36.92%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.92%) AWS Certification
4 8 (12.31%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) OCP
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.54%) VCAP
6 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (20.00%) Docker
2 11 (16.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.15%) Postfix
4 3 (4.62%) RACF
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Terraform
2 14 (21.54%) Ansible
2 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes
3 10 (15.38%) Grafana
4 8 (12.31%) Puppet
5 7 (10.77%) Progress Chef
5 7 (10.77%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.15%) Kibana
6 4 (6.15%) Packer
7 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.54%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.23%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.15%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (4.62%) Cloudera
4 3 (4.62%) Imperva
5 2 (3.08%) Alteryx
5 2 (3.08%) Informatica
5 2 (3.08%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle
5 2 (3.08%) StreamSets
5 2 (3.08%) Talend
6 1 (1.54%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.54%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.54%) Tenable
6 1 (1.54%) VMware