Route 53 Contract Job Trends

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 497 520
Rank change year-on-year -116 +23 +64
Contract jobs citing Route 53 59 53 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.43% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 28
10th Percentile £435 £430 £409
25th Percentile £500 £500 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £532
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% +1.38%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £575
90th Percentile £630 £705 £602
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £500 £516
% change year-on-year +6.50% -3.15% -1.67%

All Cloud Computing 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 18,981 12,340 13,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.83% 37.41% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,589 8,206 8,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 306 207
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.63 £54.69 £60.83
90th Percentile £81.45 £71.73 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% +11.11%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Route 53 job vacancy trend in the UK

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Route 53
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Route 53 over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Route 53.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Route 53

Route 53
Top 13 Contract Job 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 10 September 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
England -118 45 £550 +7.32% 13
UK excluding London -117 28 £533 +6.50% 9
Work from Home -63 27 £550 - 3
London -82 18 £563 +2.27% 8
South East -55 12 £568 +13.60% 2
Midlands -63 11 £477 +0.42% 1
West Midlands -53 10 £477 +0.42% 1
North of England -74 2 £423 -26.52% 4
East of England -28 1 - -
North West -58 1 £420 -26.96% 1
North East - 1 £425 - 1
South West - 1 £450 - 1
Wales - 1 £550 -

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.17%) Confluence
2 4 (6.78%) nginx
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.39%) Apache
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (59.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 33 (55.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 31 (52.54%) Amazon S3
5 30 (50.85%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (45.76%) Serverless
7 25 (42.37%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (38.98%) Azure
9 22 (37.29%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (37.29%) GitHub
10 15 (25.42%) AWS KMS
11 13 (22.03%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (22.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (20.34%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (18.64%) AWS CloudTrail
13 11 (18.64%) GCP
14 10 (16.95%) Amazon ECR
14 10 (16.95%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (16.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 9 (15.25%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.81%) DNS
2 12 (20.34%) Firewall
2 12 (20.34%) TCP/IP
3 10 (16.95%) DNSSEC
4 9 (15.25%) DHCP
4 9 (15.25%) Network Security
5 4 (6.78%) VPN
6 2 (3.39%) FTP
6 2 (3.39%) HTTP
6 2 (3.39%) HTTPS
6 2 (3.39%) IMAP
6 2 (3.39%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (3.39%) SMTP
6 2 (3.39%) SSH
7 1 (1.69%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.69%) SSL
7 1 (1.69%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.69%) VLAN
7 1 (1.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (50.85%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (32.20%) Amazon Aurora
2 19 (32.20%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (20.34%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.39%) Apache Hive
5 2 (3.39%) Big Data
5 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.39%) MySQL
6 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (44.07%) Jenkins
2 21 (35.59%) Git
3 13 (22.03%) GitLab
4 12 (20.34%) SonarQube
5 11 (18.64%) JUnit
6 10 (16.95%) Maven
7 9 (15.25%) Mockito
8 7 (11.86%) DbUnit
9 6 (10.17%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (10.17%) JIRA
9 6 (10.17%) jMock
10 3 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
11 2 (3.39%) JMeter
11 2 (3.39%) Mocha
11 2 (3.39%) REST Assured
11 2 (3.39%) Vagrant
12 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
General
1 17 (28.81%) Public Sector
2 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Games
6 1 (1.69%) Military
6 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (49.15%) Architect
2 17 (28.81%) AWS Architect
3 13 (22.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (22.03%) Technical Architect
4 11 (18.64%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (15.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (15.25%) Developer
6 9 (15.25%) Java Developer
6 9 (15.25%) Senior
7 5 (8.47%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Network Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (54.24%) Terraform
2 14 (23.73%) RESTful
3 10 (16.95%) Spring
3 10 (16.95%) Spring Boot
4 9 (15.25%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (15.25%) Hibernate
4 9 (15.25%) JPA
4 9 (15.25%) REST
4 9 (15.25%) SOAP
4 9 (15.25%) Spring Batch
4 9 (15.25%) Spring Integration
4 9 (15.25%) Web Services
5 8 (13.56%) AngularJS
6 7 (11.86%) Apollo GraphQL
6 7 (11.86%) GraphQL
6 7 (11.86%) Spring Cloud
7 6 (10.17%) Bootstrap
7 6 (10.17%) OpenID
7 6 (10.17%) PowerMock
7 6 (10.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Replication
5 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.03%) Linux
2 9 (15.25%) Windows
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.69%) VMS
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (62.71%) CI/CD
2 34 (57.63%) DevOps
3 30 (50.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (32.20%) Containerisation
4 19 (32.20%) Microservices
5 14 (23.73%) Agile
6 13 (22.03%) High Availability
7 12 (20.34%) Roadmaps
8 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure Automation
8 11 (18.64%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (16.95%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (16.95%) Load Balancing
9 10 (16.95%) Scrum
9 10 (16.95%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (15.25%) Decision-Making
10 9 (15.25%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (15.25%) Migration
10 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) Python
2 21 (35.59%) Bash
3 17 (28.81%) PowerShell
4 12 (20.34%) SQL
5 10 (16.95%) Java
6 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.39%) Groovy
9 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.69%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (66.10%) Security Cleared
2 38 (64.41%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.64%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.69%) Degree
6 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (38.98%) Docker
2 7 (11.86%) Postfix
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.08%) Squid
5 2 (3.39%) DFS Replication
5 2 (3.39%) Dovecot
5 2 (3.39%) HDFS
6 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (49.15%) Grafana
2 23 (38.98%) Kubernetes
2 23 (38.98%) Prometheus
3 11 (18.64%) Ansible
4 2 (3.39%) Nessus
4 2 (3.39%) Packer
4 2 (3.39%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.69%) Argo
5 1 (1.69%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.69%) Istio
5 1 (1.69%) Podman
5 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.69%) Puppet
5 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.69%) systemd
5 1 (1.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.64%) Infoblox
3 10 (16.95%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (15.25%) Google
5 7 (11.86%) Atlassian
6 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.78%) Splunk
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle
7 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.39%) Tenable
8 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.69%) Cisco
8 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.69%) F5
8 1 (1.69%) Sonatype
8 1 (1.69%) TOWER Software