Route 53 Contracts

Amazon Route 53 (R53)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Route 53 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Route 53 over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 630 672
Rank change year-on-year +117 +42 -34
Contract jobs citing Route 53 62 52 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.093% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.25% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 42 99
10th Percentile £378 £413 £424
25th Percentile £409 £486 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £575 £675 £581
90th Percentile £694 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +0.50%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Route 53 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

Route 53
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Route 53 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Route 53.

Daily rate trend for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Route 53 over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Route 53.

Hourly rate trend for Route 53 in the UK

Route 53
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England +100 53 £505 -3.81% 7
Work from Home +124 31 £488 -18.75% 5
London +94 26 £450 -14.29% 6
UK excluding London +48 24 £550 +4.76% 3
North of England +33 15 £663 +26.19%
North West +28 11 £663 +26.19%
Yorkshire +21 4 £463 -
South East +13 4 £568 -9.16% 1
East of England +7 3 £550 -
Scotland +33 1 £522 +4.40%
West Midlands - 1 £350 -
Midlands - 1 £350 -

Route 53
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (8.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (88.71%) Amazon S3
3 53 (85.48%) Amazon EC2
4 50 (80.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 27 (43.55%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (35.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (33.87%) Amazon ECR
8 16 (25.81%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (25.81%) Serverless
9 14 (22.58%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (19.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (12.90%) CloudFront
12 6 (9.68%) Azure
13 4 (6.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 4 (6.45%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (6.45%) AWS Direct Connect
13 4 (6.45%) AWS KMS
13 4 (6.45%) GitHub
13 4 (6.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.35%) Network Security
2 9 (14.52%) Firewall
3 6 (9.68%) DNS
4 4 (6.45%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (4.84%) DHCP
5 3 (4.84%) LAN
5 3 (4.84%) WLAN
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.61%) HTTP
7 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.61%) VPN
7 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (67.74%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (14.52%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.23%) MySQL
5 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.61%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (35.48%) Git
2 21 (33.87%) Jenkins
3 20 (32.26%) GitLab
4 9 (14.52%) webpack
5 5 (8.06%) JIRA
6 4 (6.45%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.23%) Snyk
8 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.61%) Gradle
8 1 (1.61%) Maven
General
1 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.23%) Finance
2 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (67.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (25.81%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (20.97%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (20.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Technical Leader
6 4 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Linux Specialist
7 2 (3.23%) Senior
7 2 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Unix Specialist
7 2 (3.23%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) Node.js
2 9 (14.52%) Express.js
2 9 (14.52%) React
2 9 (14.52%) Redux
3 4 (6.45%) Laravel
3 4 (6.45%) LDAP
4 3 (4.84%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.61%) ADO
6 1 (1.61%) Django
6 1 (1.61%) HornetQ
6 1 (1.61%) OAuth
6 1 (1.61%) OpenID
6 1 (1.61%) REST
6 1 (1.61%) SAML
6 1 (1.61%) Servlets
6 1 (1.61%) SOAP
6 1 (1.61%) Spring Security
6 1 (1.61%) VCL
6 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
1 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
1 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (30.65%) Linux
2 12 (19.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.06%) CentOS
4 4 (6.45%) Windows
5 2 (3.23%) Debian
5 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.23%) Unix
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (77.42%) DevOps
2 25 (40.32%) CI/CD
3 20 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (24.19%) Agile
5 12 (19.35%) Containerisation
6 11 (17.74%) Requirements Gathering
6 11 (17.74%) Service Design
7 10 (16.13%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 10 (16.13%) Test Automation
8 9 (14.52%) API Development
8 9 (14.52%) Customer Engagement
8 9 (14.52%) Front End Development
8 9 (14.52%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (12.90%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (12.90%) ETL
9 8 (12.90%) QA Automation
10 7 (11.29%) GitOps
11 5 (8.06%) Configuration Management
11 5 (8.06%) Observability
11 5 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (51.61%) Python
2 14 (22.58%) Java
3 7 (11.29%) Bash
4 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.61%) Go
6 1 (1.61%) Groovy
6 1 (1.61%) PHP
6 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (59.68%) Security Cleared
2 36 (58.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (38.71%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.61%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (72.58%) Kubernetes
2 32 (51.61%) Terraform
3 24 (38.71%) Prometheus
4 20 (32.26%) Grafana
5 9 (14.52%) Ansible
6 7 (11.29%) Puppet
7 5 (8.06%) Progress Chef
8 4 (6.45%) Packer
8 4 (6.45%) Rancher
8 4 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (3.23%) Salt
10 1 (1.61%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.61%) Kibana
10 1 (1.61%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Red Hat
2 6 (9.68%) Palo Alto
2 6 (9.68%) VMware
3 5 (8.06%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.84%) Cisco
5 2 (3.23%) Qualys
5 2 (3.23%) SaltStack
5 2 (3.23%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) Ping Identity