Amazon Aurora Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Amazon Aurora
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Amazon Aurora skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 47 58
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 9 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.18% 3.76% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.82% 15.09% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 9
10th Percentile £444 £424 £410
25th Percentile £466 £459 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £487 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +8.22% -6.05%
75th Percentile £500 £534 £494
90th Percentile £513 £600 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.94%

All Database & BI Skills
Edinburgh

Amazon Aurora falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 132 159 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.32% 24.88% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 90 67
10th Percentile £352 £425 £327
25th Percentile £410 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.10%
75th Percentile £500 £536 £516
90th Percentile £569 £576 £608
Scotland median daily rate £425 £493 £450
% change year-on-year -13.79% +9.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £43.75 £55.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -20.45% +180.76% -69.57%

Amazon Aurora
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon Aurora relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Amazon Aurora job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Amazon Aurora.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (22.22%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
2 2 (22.22%) MariaDB
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer in Test
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) React
1 5 (55.56%) REST
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 4 (44.44%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
2 4 (44.44%) Next.js
2 4 (44.44%) Node.js
3 3 (33.33%) Spring MVC
3 3 (33.33%) Vue
4 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
4 2 (22.22%) OAuth
4 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
4 2 (22.22%) Spring Security
4 2 (22.22%) Spring Web Flow
4 2 (22.22%) Terraform
4 2 (22.22%) Thymeleaf
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
5 1 (11.11%) Flask
5 1 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Agile
4 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Coaching
5 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) MVC
5 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (22.22%) BDD
6 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
6 2 (22.22%) SOA
6 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 4 (44.44%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (22.22%) Go
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) linkerd
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
3 1 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace