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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 57 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 4 8 17
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.60% 1.30% 2.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.99% 6.30% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 17
10th Percentile - £473 £436
25th Percentile £425 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.21% -0.94%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £484
90th Percentile - - £507
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -0.89%

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 134 127 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.97% 20.62% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 75 99
10th Percentile £363 £405 £413
25th Percentile £413 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £497 £506
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% -1.78% +3.79%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £575
90th Percentile £670 £623 £665
Scotland median daily rate £438 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -4.89% -3.16% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £26.32 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.96% - -
75th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 -
90th Percentile £65.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +88.68% +22.46% -38.17%

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 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) SDET
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) linkerd
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle