Route 53 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 279 310 450
Rank change year-on-year +31 +140 +98
Contract jobs citing Route 53 25 35 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.23% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.63% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 21
10th Percentile £491 £394 £450
25th Percentile £536 £405 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £511 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -14.83% +12.15%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £750
90th Percentile £585 £623 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £538
% change year-on-year +13.86% -6.05% +1.90%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Route 53
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Route 53 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Route 53 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Route 53
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Route 53.

Route 53 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Route 53
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (64.00%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (60.00%) Amazon S3
4 13 (52.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (44.00%) Serverless
6 8 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (32.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (28.00%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (24.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (24.00%) Azure
9 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
10 4 (16.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (16.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (16.00%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (16.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 4 (16.00%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (16.00%) AWS KMS
10 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
10 4 (16.00%) PaaS
10 4 (16.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) DNS
1 11 (44.00%) VPN
2 10 (40.00%) Firewall
3 5 (20.00%) DHCP
3 5 (20.00%) LAN
3 5 (20.00%) WAN
4 3 (12.00%) IPsec
4 3 (12.00%) Kerberos
4 3 (12.00%) SSL
5 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (28.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (16.00%) MySQL
4 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (12.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (8.00%) Big Data
6 2 (8.00%) InfluxDB
6 2 (8.00%) Power BI
7 1 (4.00%) DocumentDB
7 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Git
2 7 (28.00%) GitLab
3 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (12.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) Maven
5 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.00%) Ant
6 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Military
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Active Directory Architect
3 5 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Wintel Architect
4 4 (16.00%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Node.js
2 4 (16.00%) AWS CDK
2 4 (16.00%) OAuth
2 4 (16.00%) REST
3 3 (12.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (12.00%) OpenID
3 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (12.00%) SAML
3 3 (12.00%) Spring
3 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.00%) Web Services
3 3 (12.00%) XACML
4 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.00%) Kafka
4 2 (8.00%) React
4 2 (8.00%) Swagger
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (4.00%) JSON Schema
5 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (12.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (36.00%) DevOps
4 8 (32.00%) Migration
5 6 (24.00%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.00%) Microservices
6 5 (20.00%) Patch Management
6 5 (20.00%) RBAC
6 5 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (16.00%) Kanban
7 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven
8 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
8 3 (12.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) PowerShell
3 10 (40.00%) Bash
4 6 (24.00%) Java
5 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (20.00%) SQL
6 3 (12.00%) Groovy
7 2 (8.00%) R
7 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) Docker
3 3 (12.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Terraform
2 12 (48.00%) Ansible
3 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (28.00%) Puppet
4 6 (24.00%) Progress Chef
5 4 (16.00%) Grafana
5 4 (16.00%) Packer
6 3 (12.00%) Kibana
6 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Imperva
3 2 (8.00%) Alteryx
3 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Black Duck
4 1 (4.00%) Checkmarx
4 1 (4.00%) Tenable