Amazon Route 53 (R53)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Route 53 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 752 644 666
Rank change year-on-year -108 +22 +75
Permanent jobs citing Route 53 35 42 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.084% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.26% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 20 26 12
10th Percentile £40,350 £50,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £57,500 £50,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,887 £72,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +9.43% -1.85%
75th Percentile £103,750 £76,875 £83,125
90th Percentile £142,500 £83,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,000 £66,250 £46,750
% change year-on-year -35.09% +41.71% -25.20%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 27,850 15,969 26,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 31.96% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 18,492 11,011 18,724
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,083
25th Percentile £44,222 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Route 53 job vacancy trend in the UK

Route 53
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Route 53.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Route 53

Route 53
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Route 53 over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Route 53 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -99 31 £74,500 +2.76% 4
UK excluding London -103 21 £43,000 -35.09% 3
North West +6 13 £74,500 +24.17%
London -29 13 £90,000 +10.77% 2
North of England -31 13 £74,500 +24.17%
Work from Home -24 4 £72,250 -0.34%
Wales - 4 £43,000 -
South West - 3 £62,500 -
South East -34 1 - - 1

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 4 (11.43%) nginx
2 2 (5.71%) Apache
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (45.71%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (42.86%) SaaS
4 14 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (40.00%) Datadog
4 14 (40.00%) Serverless
5 12 (34.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (34.29%) Amazon S3
6 11 (31.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (25.71%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (22.86%) Azure
9 7 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (17.14%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (17.14%) Cloudflare
11 5 (14.29%) AWS KMS
12 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (11.43%) CloudFront
12 4 (11.43%) GitHub
13 3 (8.57%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) DNS
2 5 (14.29%) Firewall
3 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.57%) BGP
5 2 (5.71%) DHCP
5 2 (5.71%) Ethernet
5 2 (5.71%) IPv4
5 2 (5.71%) LAN
5 2 (5.71%) Network Security
5 2 (5.71%) OSPF
5 2 (5.71%) SSL
5 2 (5.71%) VLAN
5 2 (5.71%) WAN
5 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.71%) Wireless
5 2 (5.71%) WLAN
6 1 (2.86%) DNSSEC
6 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (37.14%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.71%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Git
1 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) Bitbucket
3 3 (8.57%) git-flow
4 2 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (5.71%) GitLab
4 2 (5.71%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Snyk
4 2 (5.71%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.86%) Maven
5 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (31.43%) Aviation
1 11 (31.43%) Retail
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Advertising
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) AWS Engineer
1 11 (31.43%) Head of Architecture
2 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Senior
5 4 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Architect
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Network Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.71%) LAMP
2 2 (5.71%) Middleware
3 1 (2.86%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (2.86%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Linux
2 8 (22.86%) Windows
3 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (5.71%) CentOS
4 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Observability
2 18 (51.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (37.14%) Mentoring
4 13 (37.14%) Roadmaps
4 13 (37.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (37.14%) Technology Roadmap
5 11 (31.43%) Architectural Patterns
5 11 (31.43%) Collaborative Culture
5 11 (31.43%) Cost Optimisation
5 11 (31.43%) Customer Experience
5 11 (31.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
5 11 (31.43%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (28.57%) DevOps
6 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (25.71%) Incident Response
8 8 (22.86%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) Python
2 7 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) PHP
5 1 (2.86%) Groovy
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (45.71%) Terraform
2 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 3 (8.57%) Grafana
4 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.71%) Argo
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.71%) Puppet
4 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.71%) Aerohive Networks
3 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Infoblox