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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 439 510
Rank change year-on-year -38 +71 +157
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 66 50 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.23% 1.02% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 34 43
10th Percentile £400 £504 £319
25th Percentile £494 £532 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% +1.34%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £688 - £722
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -

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 5,387 4,907 6,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.38% 18.52% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,765 3,239 4,444
10th Percentile £329 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £702 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 81 172
10th Percentile £18.23 £22.27 £15.62
25th Percentile £27.00 £25.00 £21.64
Median hourly rate £45.75 £38.50 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -9.08% -27.53%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £61.56
90th Percentile £85.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +41.03% -17.35% -25.53%

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 1 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 1 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 43 £600 -11.11% 6
North of England -46 13 £575 -4.17% 1
North West -15 12 £575 -4.17%
West Midlands -33 7 £475 - 1
Midlands -46 7 £475 - 1
South West -22 5 £606 +0.93% 1
East of England -18 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 4
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 9 (13.64%) Confluence
2 7 (10.61%) 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 7 (10.61%) 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 32 (48.48%) Amazon S3
4 26 (39.39%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 22 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (28.79%) GitHub
8 17 (25.76%) Route 53
9 16 (24.24%) Amazon MSK
9 16 (24.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (21.21%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (19.70%) Azure
12 13 (19.70%) Datadog
13 12 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (15.15%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.70%) DNS
2 8 (12.12%) HTTP
3 7 (10.61%) Firewall
3 7 (10.61%) FTP
3 7 (10.61%) IMAP
3 7 (10.61%) OpenLDAP
3 7 (10.61%) SMTP
3 7 (10.61%) 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 50 (75.76%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (62.12%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (40.91%) 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 27 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 21 (31.82%) Git
3 8 (12.12%) JIRA
4 7 (10.61%) 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 28 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.61%) 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 22 (33.33%) Architect
2 11 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Java Architect
4 9 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (13.64%) Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Data Architect
5 8 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Architect
6 7 (10.61%) Senior
7 6 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Java Technical Architect
7 6 (9.09%) Lead
7 6 (9.09%) Technical Architect
8 5 (7.58%) DBA
8 5 (7.58%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Data Engineer
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 7 (10.61%) LDAP
5 7 (10.61%) React
6 6 (9.09%) JWT
7 5 (7.58%) Dropwizard
7 5 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (7.58%) J2EE
7 5 (7.58%) JPA
7 5 (7.58%) Micronaut
7 5 (7.58%) Node.js
7 5 (7.58%) OAuth
7 5 (7.58%) OAuth2
8 4 (6.06%) Apache Avro
8 4 (6.06%) Celery
8 4 (6.06%) OpenID
8 4 (6.06%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 16 (24.24%) Replication
3 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.58%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (7.58%) N-Tier
5 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.06%) PACS
5 4 (6.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.55%) Mainframe
7 2 (3.03%) Clustering
7 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.52%) DataPower
8 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.52%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Linux
1 9 (13.64%) Windows
2 8 (12.12%) Ubuntu
3 7 (10.61%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (10.61%) VMS
4 3 (4.55%) zOS
5 1 (1.52%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 34 (51.52%) DevOps
3 22 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 21 (31.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 19 (28.79%) Microservices
6 18 (27.27%) Observability
6 18 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
7 17 (25.76%) Agile
7 17 (25.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (22.73%) Change Management
8 15 (22.73%) Containerisation
9 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (21.21%) Roadmaps
9 14 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (16.67%) Design Patterns
11 10 (15.15%) Analytics
11 10 (15.15%) Configuration Management
11 10 (15.15%) Data Modelling
11 10 (15.15%) Mentoring
11 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.03%) SQL
2 32 (48.48%) Python
3 17 (25.76%) Java
4 11 (16.67%) Groovy
5 8 (12.12%) 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 10 (15.15%) AWS Certification
4 9 (13.64%) Degree
5 7 (10.61%) 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 33 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (10.61%) DFS Replication
2 7 (10.61%) Dovecot
2 7 (10.61%) Postfix
2 7 (10.61%) Squid
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 36 (54.55%) Terraform
2 19 (28.79%) Kubernetes
3 14 (21.21%) Grafana
4 13 (19.70%) Prometheus
5 7 (10.61%) Nessus
5 7 (10.61%) 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 11 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 7 (10.61%) 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
8 1 (1.52%) Virgin Media