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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 454 498
Rank change year-on-year -23 +44 +149
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 71 46 51
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.33% 0.93% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 39
10th Percentile £383 £499 £319
25th Percentile £489 £523 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.07% +22.73% +0.18%
75th Percentile £641 £700 £695
90th Percentile £684 £704 £710
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.20% +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 5,356 4,942 5,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.54% 18.42% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,737 3,281 4,274
10th Percentile £331 £355 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £709 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 77 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £16.18
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.50 £22.61
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% -25.26%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year +45.56% -28.47% -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 22 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 22 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 -11 48 £580 -14.07% 3
North of England -48 13 £575 -4.17% 10
North West -17 12 £575 -4.17% 4
West Midlands -35 9 £475 - 2
Midlands -40 9 £475 - 7
South West -12 5 £606 +0.93% 7
East of England -16 2 - - 7
South East - 2 £525 - 9
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 5
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 11 (15.49%) Confluence
2 9 (12.68%) nginx
3 3 (4.23%) Apache
4 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.41%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.82%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 41 (57.75%) AWS Lambda
2 41 (57.75%) Serverless
3 36 (50.70%) Amazon S3
4 28 (39.44%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (33.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (33.80%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (28.17%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (26.76%) GitHub
7 19 (26.76%) Route 53
8 18 (25.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 17 (23.94%) Azure
10 16 (22.54%) Amazon MSK
10 16 (22.54%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (18.31%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (18.31%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (18.31%) Datadog
12 12 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (15.49%) AWS KMS
13 11 (15.49%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.13%) DNS
2 10 (14.08%) HTTP
3 9 (12.68%) Firewall
3 9 (12.68%) FTP
3 9 (12.68%) IMAP
3 9 (12.68%) OpenLDAP
3 9 (12.68%) SMTP
3 9 (12.68%) SSH
4 1 (1.41%) Internet
4 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.41%) VPN
4 1 (1.41%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (73.24%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (61.97%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (36.62%) DynamoDB
4 18 (25.35%) NoSQL
5 17 (23.94%) MySQL
6 14 (19.72%) Redis
7 12 (16.90%) Relational Database
8 9 (12.68%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
9 8 (11.27%) DocumentDB
9 8 (11.27%) RDBMS
10 7 (9.86%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (7.04%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (7.04%) BigQuery
11 5 (7.04%) DB2
11 5 (7.04%) OLTP
11 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
12 4 (5.63%) Star Schema
12 4 (5.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (40.85%) Jenkins
2 23 (32.39%) Git
3 10 (14.08%) JIRA
4 9 (12.68%) Vagrant
5 6 (8.45%) GitLab
5 6 (8.45%) Gradle
5 6 (8.45%) Maven
5 6 (8.45%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.04%) SonarLint
7 4 (5.63%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (2.82%) JUnit
9 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.41%) Gatling
General
1 30 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 9 (12.68%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.82%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Architect
2 15 (21.13%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (16.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) AWS DevOps
4 11 (15.49%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (14.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (14.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 10 (14.08%) Java Architect
6 9 (12.68%) Developer
7 8 (11.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.27%) Data Architect
7 8 (11.27%) Senior
7 8 (11.27%) Software Engineer
8 7 (9.86%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 6 (8.45%) AWS Architect
9 6 (8.45%) Java Technical Architect
9 6 (8.45%) Lead
9 6 (8.45%) Technical Architect
10 5 (7.04%) Data Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.62%) Kafka
2 16 (22.54%) RESTful
2 16 (22.54%) Spring Boot
3 12 (16.90%) Spring
4 9 (12.68%) LDAP
4 9 (12.68%) REST
5 7 (9.86%) React
6 6 (8.45%) JWT
7 5 (7.04%) Dropwizard
7 5 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (7.04%) J2EE
7 5 (7.04%) JPA
7 5 (7.04%) Micronaut
7 5 (7.04%) Node.js
7 5 (7.04%) OAuth
7 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.63%) .NET
8 4 (5.63%) Hibernate
8 4 (5.63%) JSON
8 4 (5.63%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Replication
2 17 (23.94%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.04%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (7.04%) N-Tier
5 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.63%) PACS
5 4 (5.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.23%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.82%) Clustering
7 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.41%) DataPower
8 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.41%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Linux
1 11 (15.49%) Windows
2 10 (14.08%) Ubuntu
3 9 (12.68%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (12.68%) VMS
4 3 (4.23%) zOS
5 1 (1.41%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (53.52%) CI/CD
2 35 (49.30%) DevOps
3 21 (29.58%) Event-Driven
4 20 (28.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 20 (28.17%) Performance Tuning
5 19 (26.76%) Microservices
6 18 (25.35%) Observability
7 17 (23.94%) Agile
7 17 (23.94%) Change Management
8 16 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (21.13%) Containerisation
10 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (19.72%) Roadmaps
10 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (16.90%) Configuration Management
12 11 (15.49%) Analytics
12 11 (15.49%) Data Engineering
12 11 (15.49%) Design Patterns
13 10 (14.08%) Cloud Security
13 10 (14.08%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.11%) SQL
2 36 (50.70%) Python
3 17 (23.94%) Java
4 13 (18.31%) Groovy
5 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.45%) Bash
7 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.63%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.23%) Go
9 2 (2.82%) PHP
9 2 (2.82%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.41%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.41%) C#
10 1 (1.41%) COBOL
10 1 (1.41%) JCL
10 1 (1.41%) REXX
10 1 (1.41%) Scala
10 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.90%) AWS Certification
4 11 (15.49%) Degree
5 9 (12.68%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.41%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.41%) OCP
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) QA
2 5 (7.04%) ISO 20022
3 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.63%) NIST
3 4 (5.63%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.41%) GDPR
5 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (49.30%) Docker
2 9 (12.68%) DFS Replication
2 9 (12.68%) Dovecot
2 9 (12.68%) Postfix
2 9 (12.68%) Squid
3 4 (5.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 39 (54.93%) Terraform
2 19 (26.76%) Kubernetes
3 16 (22.54%) Grafana
4 15 (21.13%) Prometheus
5 9 (12.68%) Nessus
5 9 (12.68%) Proxmox
6 4 (5.63%) Ansible
6 4 (5.63%) Data Guard
6 4 (5.63%) Rancher
7 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.41%) Puppet
7 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) ServiceNow
2 9 (12.68%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (8.45%) Oracle
4 5 (7.04%) Gigya
5 4 (5.63%) Confluent
5 4 (5.63%) Dynatrace
6 3 (4.23%) IBM
7 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.41%) Percona
8 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.41%) Sage
8 1 (1.41%) SAP