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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 465 521
Rank change year-on-year -1 +56 +161
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 66 45 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.23% 0.80% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 26 43
10th Percentile £378 £481 £428
25th Percentile £431 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £583 £598
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% -2.51% +13.81%
75th Percentile £609 £688 £700
90th Percentile £675 £719 £708
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £509
% change year-on-year +2.50% -1.77% +1.80%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,369 5,601 6,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.46% 17.99% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,732 3,741 4,594
10th Percentile £326 £350 £353
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £533
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 80 134
10th Percentile £21.07 £18.00 £18.77
25th Percentile £29.88 £24.69 £24.86
Median hourly rate £54.70 £38.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +43.95% -20.33% -4.61%
75th Percentile £69.25 £60.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.80 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £31.55 £46.84
% change year-on-year +73.40% -32.65% -2.30%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +14 42 £513 -8.07% 2
North of England -29 14 £575 - 3
West Midlands - 14 £475 -
Midlands - 14 £475 -
North West -8 13 £575 - 3
South East - 2 £525 - 3
East of England - 2 - - 1
South West -2 1 £450 -25.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -
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 14 (21.21%) Confluence
2 12 (18.18%) nginx
3 4 (6.06%) 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 12 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (51.52%) AWS Lambda
2 34 (51.52%) Serverless
3 31 (46.97%) Amazon S3
4 30 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (40.91%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (34.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (30.30%) Route 53
8 19 (28.79%) Azure
9 17 (25.76%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (25.76%) GitHub
9 17 (25.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (24.24%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (24.24%) AWS KMS
11 13 (19.70%) Datadog
12 12 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
12 12 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (15.15%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (13.64%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.70%) DNS
2 12 (18.18%) HTTP
2 12 (18.18%) IMAP
2 12 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
2 12 (18.18%) SMTP
3 10 (15.15%) Firewall
3 10 (15.15%) FTP
3 10 (15.15%) SSH
4 2 (3.03%) Internet
4 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.52%) VPN
5 1 (1.52%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (72.73%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (30.30%) DynamoDB
4 14 (21.21%) NoSQL
5 13 (19.70%) Redis
6 12 (18.18%) Relational Database
7 10 (15.15%) MySQL
8 8 (12.12%) RDBMS
9 6 (9.09%) BigQuery
9 6 (9.09%) MongoDB
9 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
10 5 (7.58%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (6.06%) DocumentDB
11 4 (6.06%) Metadata
12 3 (4.55%) Power BI
13 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (3.03%) DB2
13 2 (3.03%) Metadata Repository
13 2 (3.03%) Pinecone
13 2 (3.03%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (48.48%) Jenkins
2 30 (45.45%) Git
3 13 (19.70%) JIRA
4 12 (18.18%) Vagrant
5 10 (15.15%) SonarQube
6 9 (13.64%) Maven
7 6 (9.09%) Gradle
8 5 (7.58%) JUnit
8 5 (7.58%) SonarLint
9 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (3.03%) DbUnit
9 2 (3.03%) jMock
9 2 (3.03%) Mockito
10 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.52%) Gatling
General
1 30 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.67%) Finance
4 10 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.03%) Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (21.21%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (21.21%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (19.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 13 (19.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) Developer
6 11 (16.67%) Architect
6 11 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 10 (15.15%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Java Developer
9 7 (10.61%) Senior
10 6 (9.09%) Java Architect
10 6 (9.09%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (9.09%) Lead
10 6 (9.09%) Technical Architect
11 5 (7.58%) Data Engineer
12 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
13 3 (4.55%) Data Architect
13 3 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) Kafka
2 15 (22.73%) RESTful
2 15 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 12 (18.18%) LDAP
4 11 (16.67%) Spring
5 8 (12.12%) React
6 7 (10.61%) Node.js
6 7 (10.61%) REST
7 6 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (9.09%) JWT
8 5 (7.58%) Dropwizard
8 5 (7.58%) J2EE
8 5 (7.58%) Micronaut
9 4 (6.06%) .NET
9 4 (6.06%) Celery
9 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
9 4 (6.06%) JPA
9 4 (6.06%) Keycloak
9 4 (6.06%) Web Services
10 3 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.79%) Replication
2 12 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.58%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.58%) N-Tier
3 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.03%) Clustering
5 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.52%) DataPower
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.52%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.76%) Linux
2 12 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (18.18%) VMS
3 11 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 11 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (1.52%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (57.58%) DevOps
2 34 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 21 (31.82%) Agile
4 20 (30.30%) Change Management
5 18 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 18 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
6 17 (25.76%) Microservices
7 16 (24.24%) Configuration Management
8 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.70%) Cloud Security
9 13 (19.70%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (19.70%) TDD
10 12 (18.18%) Event-Driven
10 12 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 11 (16.67%) Data Engineering
11 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (15.15%) AI
12 10 (15.15%) Mentoring
12 10 (15.15%) Patch Management
12 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (56.06%) Python
2 32 (48.48%) SQL
3 17 (25.76%) Java
4 16 (24.24%) Groovy
5 13 (19.70%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.09%) Bash
7 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.03%) Go
9 2 (3.03%) Ruby
9 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
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%) PHP
10 1 (1.52%) REXX
10 1 (1.52%) Scala
10 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.70%) AWS Certification
4 12 (18.18%) Degree
5 10 (15.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.52%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.52%) OCP
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (56.06%) Docker
2 14 (21.21%) Postfix
3 12 (18.18%) Dovecot
3 12 (18.18%) Squid
4 10 (15.15%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 39 (59.09%) Terraform
2 20 (30.30%) Grafana
2 20 (30.30%) Prometheus
3 17 (25.76%) Kubernetes
4 12 (18.18%) Nessus
5 10 (15.15%) Proxmox
6 5 (7.58%) Ansible
7 4 (6.06%) Rancher
8 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.03%) Puppet
9 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) ServiceNow
2 14 (21.21%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (7.58%) Gigya
4 4 (6.06%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.52%) Google
7 1 (1.52%) IBM
7 1 (1.52%) Informatica
7 1 (1.52%) Percona
7 1 (1.52%) Sage
7 1 (1.52%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) Talend