Route 53 Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Route 53 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 112 114
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Route 53 12 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.22% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 0.67% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £404 - £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £398
75th Percentile £463 - £409
90th Percentile £470 - -
England median daily rate £509 £558 £525
% change year-on-year -8.74% +6.19% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 762 593 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.42% 32.42% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 389 481
10th Percentile £304 £210 £200
25th Percentile £425 £363 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 8
10th Percentile £25.12 £16.46 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £63.95 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +26.00% +11.11%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Route 53 job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Route 53
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Birmingham +1 9 £475 - 1
Solihull - 2 £450 -
Route 53
England

Route 53
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 11 (91.67%) Confluence
1 11 (91.67%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 12 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon ECS
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon ELB
2 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) DNS
1 11 (91.67%) IMAP
1 11 (91.67%) OpenLDAP
1 11 (91.67%) SMTP
2 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 10 (83.33%) FTP
2 10 (83.33%) HTTP
2 10 (83.33%) SSH
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) VSAN
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (91.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Git
1 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
1 11 (91.67%) JIRA
1 11 (91.67%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (83.33%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) AWS Engineer
1 11 (91.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 11 (91.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 11 (91.67%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) AWS DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon Linux
2 11 (91.67%) Ubuntu
2 11 (91.67%) VMS
2 11 (91.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) SUSE
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Change Management
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (91.67%) Cloud Security
2 11 (91.67%) Configuration Management
2 11 (91.67%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (91.67%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (83.33%) Patch Management
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Servant Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (91.67%) Groovy
2 11 (91.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) AWS Certification
2 10 (83.33%) Azure Certification
2 10 (83.33%) Degree
2 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
1 11 (91.67%) Dovecot
1 11 (91.67%) Postfix
1 11 (91.67%) Squid
2 10 (83.33%) DFS Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Grafana
1 11 (91.67%) Nessus
1 11 (91.67%) Prometheus
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 10 (83.33%) Proxmox
3 1 (8.33%) PowerCLI
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Jaspersoft
1 11 (91.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Veeam
2 1 (8.33%) VMware