Route 53 Job Trends

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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 642 650
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 +234
Permanent jobs citing Route 53 23 57 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.29% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 58
10th Percentile £58,891 £52,500 £54,890
25th Percentile £60,071 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £72,075
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +2.67% +2.96%
75th Percentile £87,500 £142,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - - £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.44% +3.85%

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 20,529 19,355 22,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.22% 36.17% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 11,374 18,418
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Top 8 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 14 January 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 +25 20 £82,500 +11.49% 11
London +52 12 £85,000 -37.04% 7
Work from Home +70 10 £85,000 -37.04% 2
UK excluding London +21 7 £62,500 -3.10% 5
West Midlands - 4 - -
Midlands - 4 - -
North West -8 3 £62,500 -
North of England -20 3 £62,500 -15.54%

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 7 (30.43%) Tomcat
1 7 (30.43%) WebSphere
2 6 (26.09%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (17.39%) Confluence
3 4 (17.39%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (91.30%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (73.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 16 (69.57%) Amazon S3
5 12 (52.17%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (39.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (30.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (30.43%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (30.43%) Serverless
8 5 (21.74%) AWS KMS
9 4 (17.39%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (17.39%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (17.39%) Azure
9 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (13.04%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (13.04%) SaaS
11 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) SSL
2 5 (21.74%) DNS
3 4 (17.39%) Firewall
3 4 (17.39%) FTP
3 4 (17.39%) HTTP
3 4 (17.39%) IMAP
3 4 (17.39%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (17.39%) SMTP
3 4 (17.39%) SSH
4 3 (13.04%) BGP
4 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
4 3 (13.04%) VLAN
4 3 (13.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (69.57%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (47.83%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (30.43%) DB2
4 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
2 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Vagrant
3 3 (13.04%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) Banking
3 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 3 (13.04%) Back Office
5 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
5 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (13.04%) Law
5 3 (13.04%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Applications Support
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Applications Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Applications Support Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Linux Support
4 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Support Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (17.39%) Senior
7 3 (13.04%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) LDAP
2 6 (26.09%) LAPP Stack
2 6 (26.09%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (13.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (17.39%) Replication
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (78.26%) Linux
2 13 (56.52%) Windows
3 7 (30.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (30.43%) Ubuntu
3 7 (30.43%) Unix
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (17.39%) VMS
5 3 (13.04%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Change Management
2 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 12 (52.17%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (39.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (39.13%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (30.43%) Configuration Management
5 7 (30.43%) ITIL
5 7 (30.43%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (26.09%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (26.09%) Release Management
6 6 (26.09%) Service Management
6 6 (26.09%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (21.74%) Cloud Security
7 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
8 4 (17.39%) Observability
8 4 (17.39%) Patch Management
8 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Bash
2 4 (17.39%) Go
2 4 (17.39%) Groovy
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) AWS Certification
2 10 (43.48%) Degree
3 6 (26.09%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
4 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) SLA
2 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (17.39%) PCI DSS
3 3 (13.04%) SOC 2
4 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) DFS Replication
2 4 (17.39%) Dovecot
2 4 (17.39%) Postfix
2 4 (17.39%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Terraform
2 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
3 7 (30.43%) Grafana
4 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
5 4 (17.39%) Nessus
5 4 (17.39%) Proxmox
6 3 (13.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) IBM
1 7 (30.43%) Red Hat
2 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
3 4 (17.39%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (13.04%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace