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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 58 57
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 5 7 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.75% 1.11% 2.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.88% 5.07% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 19
10th Percentile £429 £473 £415
25th Percentile £434 £475 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £497 £470
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +5.86% -2.09%
75th Percentile £484 £525 £482
90th Percentile £486 - £506
Scotland median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -0.84%

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 129 138 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.23% 21.84% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 81 106
10th Percentile £358 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £497 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% -0.60% +2.41%
75th Percentile £543 £538 £575
90th Percentile £630 £612 £663
Scotland median daily rate £425 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -9.57% -1.05% -3.06%
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 2 (40.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (60.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) SDET
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) linkerd
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace