Amazon Aurora Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Aurora
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon Aurora skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 438 497
Rank change year-on-year -56 +59 +159
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 66 50 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.22% 1.02% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 42
10th Percentile £400 £503 £319
25th Percentile £494 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% +0.18%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £697
90th Percentile £688 - £710
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -

All Database & BI Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,400 4,923 6,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.43% 18.50% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,760 3,256 4,337
10th Percentile £328 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £606 £663 £650
90th Percentile £710 £775 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 78 168
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.96 £15.57
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £47.61 £38.31 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -9.54% -29.43%
75th Percentile £74.58 £64.73 £61.75
90th Percentile £85.30 £74.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £35.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +46.43% -17.35% -29.43%

Amazon Aurora
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Amazon Aurora job vacancy trend in England

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Aurora in England over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in England

Amazon Aurora
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon Aurora within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -20 43 £600 -11.11% 6
North of England -48 13 £575 -4.17% 2
North West -12 12 £575 -4.17% 1
West Midlands -27 8 £475 -
Midlands -48 8 £475 -
South West -15 5 £606 +0.93% 1
East of England -12 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 1
Amazon Aurora
UK

Amazon Aurora
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 10 (15.15%) Confluence
2 8 (12.12%) nginx
3 3 (4.55%) Apache
4 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.52%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (56.06%) AWS Lambda
2 37 (56.06%) Serverless
3 33 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 27 (40.91%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (34.85%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (28.79%) GitHub
9 18 (27.27%) Route 53
10 17 (25.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (24.24%) Amazon MSK
12 14 (21.21%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (21.21%) Azure
13 13 (19.70%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (19.70%) Datadog
14 12 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (15.15%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.21%) DNS
2 9 (13.64%) HTTP
3 8 (12.12%) Firewall
3 8 (12.12%) FTP
3 8 (12.12%) IMAP
3 8 (12.12%) OpenLDAP
3 8 (12.12%) SMTP
3 8 (12.12%) SSH
4 1 (1.52%) Internet
4 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.52%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (77.27%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (62.12%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (39.39%) DynamoDB
4 18 (27.27%) NoSQL
5 17 (25.76%) MySQL
6 14 (21.21%) Redis
7 12 (18.18%) Relational Database
8 9 (13.64%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (13.64%) MongoDB
9 8 (12.12%) DocumentDB
9 8 (12.12%) RDBMS
10 5 (7.58%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (7.58%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (7.58%) BigQuery
10 5 (7.58%) DB2
10 5 (7.58%) OLTP
10 5 (7.58%) SQL Server
11 4 (6.06%) Data Vault
11 4 (6.06%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (42.42%) Jenkins
2 22 (33.33%) Git
3 9 (13.64%) JIRA
4 8 (12.12%) Vagrant
5 6 (9.09%) GitLab
5 6 (9.09%) Gradle
5 6 (9.09%) Maven
5 6 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.58%) SonarLint
7 4 (6.06%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (3.03%) JUnit
9 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.52%) Gatling
General
1 29 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Architect
2 12 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (15.15%) Java Architect
4 10 (15.15%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Developer
6 8 (12.12%) Data Architect
6 8 (12.12%) Software Engineer
7 7 (10.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.61%) Senior
8 6 (9.09%) AWS Architect
8 6 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) Java Technical Architect
8 6 (9.09%) Lead
8 6 (9.09%) Technical Architect
9 5 (7.58%) DBA
10 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.36%) Kafka
2 16 (24.24%) Spring Boot
3 12 (18.18%) RESTful
3 12 (18.18%) Spring
4 9 (13.64%) REST
5 8 (12.12%) LDAP
6 7 (10.61%) React
7 6 (9.09%) JWT
8 5 (7.58%) Dropwizard
8 5 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (7.58%) J2EE
8 5 (7.58%) JPA
8 5 (7.58%) Micronaut
8 5 (7.58%) Node.js
8 5 (7.58%) OAuth
8 5 (7.58%) OAuth2
9 4 (6.06%) .NET
9 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
9 4 (6.06%) JSON
9 4 (6.06%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Cloud Native
1 17 (25.76%) Replication
2 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.58%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.58%) N-Tier
4 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.06%) PACS
4 4 (6.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.55%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.03%) Clustering
6 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.52%) DataPower
7 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.52%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Linux
1 10 (15.15%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Ubuntu
3 8 (12.12%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (12.12%) VMS
4 3 (4.55%) zOS
5 1 (1.52%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.06%) CI/CD
2 34 (51.52%) DevOps
3 21 (31.82%) Event-Driven
4 20 (30.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 19 (28.79%) Microservices
5 19 (28.79%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (27.27%) Observability
7 17 (25.76%) Agile
8 16 (24.24%) Change Management
8 16 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (22.73%) Containerisation
10 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (21.21%) Roadmaps
10 14 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (16.67%) Configuration Management
11 11 (16.67%) Design Patterns
12 10 (15.15%) Analytics
12 10 (15.15%) CQRS
12 10 (15.15%) Data Modelling
12 10 (15.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (54.55%) SQL
2 33 (50.00%) Python
3 17 (25.76%) Java
4 12 (18.18%) Groovy
5 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.09%) Bash
7 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.06%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.55%) Go
9 2 (3.03%) PHP
9 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.52%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.52%) C#
10 1 (1.52%) COBOL
10 1 (1.52%) JCL
10 1 (1.52%) REXX
10 1 (1.52%) Scala
10 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 10 (15.15%) Degree
5 8 (12.12%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.52%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.52%) OCP
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) QA
2 5 (7.58%) ISO 20022
3 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.06%) NIST
3 4 (6.06%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.52%) GDPR
5 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (51.52%) Docker
2 8 (12.12%) DFS Replication
2 8 (12.12%) Dovecot
2 8 (12.12%) Postfix
2 8 (12.12%) Squid
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 36 (54.55%) Terraform
2 19 (28.79%) Kubernetes
3 15 (22.73%) Grafana
4 14 (21.21%) Prometheus
5 8 (12.12%) Nessus
5 8 (12.12%) Proxmox
6 4 (6.06%) Ansible
6 4 (6.06%) Data Guard
6 4 (6.06%) Rancher
7 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.52%) Puppet
7 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 8 (12.12%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (9.09%) Oracle
4 5 (7.58%) Gigya
5 4 (6.06%) Confluent
5 4 (6.06%) Dynatrace
6 3 (4.55%) IBM
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.52%) Percona
8 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.52%) SAP