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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 316 435
Rank change year-on-year +34 +119 +84
Contract jobs citing Route 53 25 30 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.20% 0.084%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.56% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 19
10th Percentile £475 £388 £443
25th Percentile £500 £405 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +13.21%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £750
90th Percentile £583 £637 £756
UK median daily rate £550 £463 £544
% change year-on-year +18.92% -14.94% +3.57%

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 3,972 5,363 9,406
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 36.53% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 3,861 7,000
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £761 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 86 134
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.19 £16.90 £21.48
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -48.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.19 £69.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £72.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.67% -38.57% +59.09%

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 2 (8.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (76.00%) Amazon S3
3 13 (52.00%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (40.00%) Serverless
5 9 (36.00%) AWS KMS
6 8 (32.00%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (32.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (28.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (28.00%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (12.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (12.00%) GitHub
9 3 (12.00%) IaaS
9 3 (12.00%) PaaS
9 3 (12.00%) SaaS
10 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (8.00%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (8.00%) CloudFront
10 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Firewall
2 6 (24.00%) DNS
2 6 (24.00%) VPN
3 3 (12.00%) IPsec
3 3 (12.00%) Kerberos
3 3 (12.00%) SSL
4 2 (8.00%) SSH
5 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (68.00%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (32.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (32.00%) DynamoDB
4 7 (28.00%) MongoDB
5 4 (16.00%) MySQL
5 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (8.00%) Big Data
6 2 (8.00%) Power BI
7 1 (4.00%) DocumentDB
7 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
7 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Git
2 11 (44.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (32.00%) Maven
4 7 (28.00%) GitLab
4 7 (28.00%) SonarQube
5 5 (20.00%) JUnit
6 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (12.00%) DbUnit
6 3 (12.00%) JIRA
6 3 (12.00%) jMock
6 3 (12.00%) Mockito
7 1 (4.00%) Ant
7 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Military
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Developer
3 5 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (16.00%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Developer
5 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) REST
2 8 (32.00%) Spring
2 8 (32.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (32.00%) Web Services
3 6 (24.00%) Node.js
3 6 (24.00%) RESTful
4 5 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 5 (20.00%) JPA
4 5 (20.00%) OAuth
4 5 (20.00%) SOAP
4 5 (20.00%) Spring Batch
4 5 (20.00%) Spring Integration
5 4 (16.00%) OAuth2
5 4 (16.00%) SAML
6 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (12.00%) OpenID
6 3 (12.00%) PowerMock
6 3 (12.00%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (12.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) CentOS
4 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
1 15 (60.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (52.00%) Agile
4 10 (40.00%) Microservices
5 8 (32.00%) TDD
6 7 (28.00%) Scrum
7 6 (24.00%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 4 (16.00%) Kanban
10 3 (12.00%) BDD
10 3 (12.00%) BPEL
10 3 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 3 (12.00%) Data Architecture
10 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 3 (12.00%) Open Source
10 3 (12.00%) Project Management
10 3 (12.00%) Security Architecture
10 3 (12.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) Java
3 10 (40.00%) SQL
4 7 (28.00%) Bash
5 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (8.00%) R
7 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) Postfix
2 3 (12.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) Terraform
2 10 (40.00%) Ansible
3 7 (28.00%) Puppet
4 6 (24.00%) Packer
4 6 (24.00%) Progress Chef
5 5 (20.00%) Grafana
5 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
7 3 (12.00%) Kibana
7 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (8.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (12.00%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (8.00%) Alteryx
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%) Imperva
4 1 (4.00%) Tenable