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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 454 501
Rank change year-on-year -22 +47 +146
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 72 45 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.36% 0.91% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 29 39
10th Percentile £385 £498 £324
25th Percentile £450 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% +1.34%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £683 £708 £710
UK median daily rate £529 £525 £503
% change year-on-year +0.77% +4.37% +0.60%

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 5,292 4,956 5,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.90% 18.32% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,683 3,285 4,267
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £412 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £710 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 134
10th Percentile £18.93 £20.82 £18.77
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.25 £25.05
Median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.79 £64.48
90th Percentile £84.70 £74.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%

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 10 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 10 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 -3 50 £548 -18.89% 2
North of England -29 13 £575 -4.17% 3
North West -17 12 £575 -4.17% 3
Midlands - 10 £475 -
West Midlands - 10 £475 -
South West -17 4 £606 +1.00% 1
East of England -20 2 - - 2
South East - 2 £525 - 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 12 (16.67%) Confluence
2 10 (13.89%) nginx
3 3 (4.17%) Apache
4 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.39%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
2 42 (58.33%) Serverless
3 36 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 29 (40.28%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (36.11%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (34.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (29.17%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (29.17%) GitHub
8 20 (27.78%) Route 53
9 19 (26.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (25.00%) Azure
11 16 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (19.44%) Amazon MSK
12 14 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (18.06%) Datadog
14 12 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (16.67%) AWS KMS
15 11 (15.28%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.61%) DNS
2 12 (16.67%) HTTP
3 10 (13.89%) Firewall
3 10 (13.89%) FTP
3 10 (13.89%) IMAP
3 10 (13.89%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (13.89%) SMTP
3 10 (13.89%) SSH
4 2 (2.78%) Internet
4 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.39%) VPN
5 1 (1.39%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (72.22%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (34.72%) DynamoDB
4 18 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 16 (22.22%) MySQL
5 16 (22.22%) Redis
6 12 (16.67%) Relational Database
7 8 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (11.11%) DocumentDB
7 8 (11.11%) MongoDB
7 8 (11.11%) RDBMS
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (6.94%) BigQuery
9 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (5.56%) DB2
10 4 (5.56%) OLTP
11 3 (4.17%) Flink
11 3 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (43.06%) Jenkins
2 24 (33.33%) Git
3 11 (15.28%) JIRA
4 10 (13.89%) Vagrant
5 6 (8.33%) GitLab
5 6 (8.33%) Gradle
5 6 (8.33%) Maven
5 6 (8.33%) SonarQube
6 5 (6.94%) SonarLint
7 3 (4.17%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (2.78%) JUnit
9 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.39%) Gatling
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Finance
3 11 (15.28%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Banking
6 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Architect
2 16 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 12 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (13.89%) Java Architect
7 9 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (12.50%) Developer
7 9 (12.50%) Senior
8 8 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 7 (9.72%) Software Engineer
10 6 (8.33%) Data Architect
10 6 (8.33%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (8.33%) Lead
10 6 (8.33%) Technical Architect
11 5 (6.94%) AWS Architect
11 5 (6.94%) Data Engineer
12 4 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (33.33%) Kafka
2 16 (22.22%) RESTful
2 16 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 12 (16.67%) Spring
4 10 (13.89%) LDAP
5 9 (12.50%) React
5 9 (12.50%) REST
6 7 (9.72%) Node.js
7 6 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (8.33%) JWT
8 5 (6.94%) Dropwizard
8 5 (6.94%) J2EE
8 5 (6.94%) JPA
8 5 (6.94%) Micronaut
8 5 (6.94%) OAuth
8 5 (6.94%) OAuth2
9 4 (5.56%) .NET
9 4 (5.56%) Celery
9 4 (5.56%) Hibernate
9 4 (5.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.39%) Replication
2 17 (23.61%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.94%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.94%) N-Tier
5 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.17%) PACS
6 3 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (2.78%) Clustering
7 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.78%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.39%) DataPower
8 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.39%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Linux
2 12 (16.67%) Windows
3 11 (15.28%) Ubuntu
4 10 (13.89%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (13.89%) VMS
5 2 (2.78%) zOS
6 1 (1.39%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.17%) CI/CD
1 39 (54.17%) DevOps
2 21 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
3 20 (27.78%) Event-Driven
4 19 (26.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 19 (26.39%) Microservices
5 18 (25.00%) Change Management
6 17 (23.61%) Agile
6 17 (23.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (23.61%) Observability
7 16 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 14 (19.44%) Configuration Management
8 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (19.44%) Roadmaps
8 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (15.28%) Cloud Security
9 11 (15.28%) Data Engineering
9 11 (15.28%) Design Patterns
9 11 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.00%) Python
1 36 (50.00%) SQL
2 17 (23.61%) Java
3 14 (19.44%) Groovy
4 11 (15.28%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.33%) Bash
6 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.17%) Go
7 3 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.78%) PHP
8 2 (2.78%) Ruby
8 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.39%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.39%) C#
9 1 (1.39%) COBOL
9 1 (1.39%) JCL
9 1 (1.39%) REXX
9 1 (1.39%) Scala
9 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.06%) AWS Certification
4 12 (16.67%) Degree
5 10 (13.89%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.39%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.39%) OCP
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) ISO 20022
2 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.56%) NIST
2 4 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (51.39%) Docker
2 10 (13.89%) DFS Replication
2 10 (13.89%) Dovecot
2 10 (13.89%) Postfix
2 10 (13.89%) Squid
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 43 (59.72%) Terraform
2 20 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 18 (25.00%) Grafana
4 17 (23.61%) Prometheus
5 10 (13.89%) Nessus
5 10 (13.89%) Proxmox
6 5 (6.94%) Ansible
7 4 (5.56%) Rancher
8 3 (4.17%) Data Guard
9 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.78%) Puppet
10 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) ServiceNow
2 10 (13.89%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (6.94%) Gigya
3 5 (6.94%) Oracle
4 4 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.17%) Confluent
6 2 (2.78%) IBM
6 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.39%) Percona
7 1 (1.39%) Sage
7 1 (1.39%) SAP