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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 434 507
Rank change year-on-year -65 +73 +137
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 61 54 51
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.13% 1.11% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 41
10th Percentile £385 £494 £319
25th Percentile £494 £546 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% +0.36%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £693 - £725
UK median daily rate £550 £558 £500
% change year-on-year -1.35% +11.50% +4.22%

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 5,413 4,856 6,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.22% 18.54% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,769 3,226 4,459
10th Percentile £330 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 81 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.58
25th Percentile £27.62 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £51.36 £41.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.76% -2.35% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.90 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +40.26% -9.41% -25.26%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -29 44 £600 -11.11% 7
West Midlands -37 8 £475 - 2
Midlands -40 8 £475 - 2
North of England -59 6 £575 -4.17% 1
South West -18 5 £606 +0.87%
North West -23 5 £600 - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 6
East of England -20 1 - - 1
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 10 (16.39%) Confluence
2 6 (9.84%) nginx
3 4 (6.56%) Apache
4 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.64%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 59 (96.72%) AWS
2 34 (55.74%) Amazon S3
3 31 (50.82%) AWS Lambda
3 31 (50.82%) Serverless
4 20 (32.79%) Amazon EKS
5 19 (31.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (31.15%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (29.51%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (27.87%) Amazon MSK
8 15 (24.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 14 (22.95%) GitHub
10 13 (21.31%) Route 53
11 12 (19.67%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (18.03%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (18.03%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (16.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 10 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (16.39%) AWS KMS
14 9 (14.75%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (14.75%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) DNS
2 7 (11.48%) HTTP
3 6 (9.84%) Firewall
3 6 (9.84%) FTP
3 6 (9.84%) IMAP
3 6 (9.84%) OpenLDAP
3 6 (9.84%) SMTP
3 6 (9.84%) SSH
4 1 (1.64%) Internet
4 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.64%) VPN
4 1 (1.64%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (72.13%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (59.02%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (37.70%) DynamoDB
4 12 (19.67%) MySQL
4 12 (19.67%) NoSQL
5 9 (14.75%) Apache Iceberg
5 9 (14.75%) MongoDB
5 9 (14.75%) Redis
6 8 (13.11%) DocumentDB
7 7 (11.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
8 6 (9.84%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (9.84%) DB2
8 6 (9.84%) OLTP
9 5 (8.20%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (8.20%) Data Vault
9 5 (8.20%) Flink
9 5 (8.20%) Star Schema
10 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
10 4 (6.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (36.07%) Jenkins
2 16 (26.23%) Git
3 9 (14.75%) JIRA
4 7 (11.48%) GitLab
5 6 (9.84%) Vagrant
6 4 (6.56%) JUnit
6 4 (6.56%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (4.92%) Maven
8 2 (3.28%) DbUnit
8 2 (3.28%) jMock
8 2 (3.28%) Mockito
8 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.64%) Gatling
9 1 (1.64%) Gradle
General
1 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.84%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.28%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Architect
2 11 (18.03%) Developer
3 10 (16.39%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Data Architect
4 9 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (13.11%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) AWS Architect
6 7 (11.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Java Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Lead
8 5 (8.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Java Architect
9 4 (6.56%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (42.62%) Kafka
2 13 (21.31%) Spring
3 12 (19.67%) Spring Boot
4 11 (18.03%) REST
5 7 (11.48%) JPA
5 7 (11.48%) Node.js
5 7 (11.48%) React
6 6 (9.84%) Hibernate
6 6 (9.84%) LDAP
6 6 (9.84%) RESTful
6 6 (9.84%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (8.20%) OAuth
7 5 (8.20%) OAuth2
8 4 (6.56%) Apache Avro
8 4 (6.56%) gRPC
8 4 (6.56%) Keycloak
8 4 (6.56%) OpenID
8 4 (6.56%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (6.56%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Replication
2 12 (19.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (8.20%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
5 4 (6.56%) PACS
5 4 (6.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.28%) Clustering
7 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.28%) VSAM
8 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.64%) DataPower
8 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Linux
2 8 (13.11%) Windows
3 7 (11.48%) Ubuntu
4 6 (9.84%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (9.84%) VMS
5 4 (6.56%) zOS
6 1 (1.64%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (55.74%) DevOps
2 33 (54.10%) CI/CD
3 19 (31.15%) Observability
4 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (29.51%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (27.87%) Event-Driven
6 16 (26.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 15 (24.59%) Microservices
8 13 (21.31%) Agile
8 13 (21.31%) Change Management
9 12 (19.67%) Analytics
9 12 (19.67%) Containerisation
10 11 (18.03%) Data Modelling
11 10 (16.39%) Data Architecture
11 10 (16.39%) Roadmaps
11 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering
11 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (16.39%) Test Automation
12 9 (14.75%) Migration
12 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (55.74%) SQL
2 27 (44.26%) Python
3 13 (21.31%) Java
4 10 (16.39%) Groovy
5 6 (9.84%) Bash
5 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.56%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.92%) Go
8 2 (3.28%) COBOL
8 2 (3.28%) PHP
8 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.64%) C#
9 1 (1.64%) JCL
9 1 (1.64%) REXX
9 1 (1.64%) Scala
9 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.39%) AWS Certification
4 8 (13.11%) Azure Certification
5 7 (11.48%) Degree
6 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.64%) OCP
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) QA
2 5 (8.20%) ISO 20022
3 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.56%) NIST
3 4 (6.56%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (45.90%) Docker
2 8 (13.11%) Postfix
3 6 (9.84%) DFS Replication
3 6 (9.84%) Dovecot
3 6 (9.84%) Squid
4 4 (6.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 30 (49.18%) Terraform
2 16 (26.23%) Grafana
3 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
4 12 (19.67%) Prometheus
5 6 (9.84%) Nessus
5 6 (9.84%) Proxmox
6 4 (6.56%) Ansible
6 4 (6.56%) Data Guard
6 4 (6.56%) Rancher
7 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.64%) Puppet
7 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) ServiceNow
2 8 (13.11%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle
4 4 (6.56%) Confluent
4 4 (6.56%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.56%) IBM
5 3 (4.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.64%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.64%) Percona
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.64%) Virgin Media