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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 452 495
Rank change year-on-year -99 +43 +60
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 78 66 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.24% 0.069%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.12% 1.33% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 46 17
10th Percentile £395 £411 £415
25th Percentile £500 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £610
90th Percentile £650 £653 £670
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £494
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.21% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 - -

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 6,950 4,961 6,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.21% 18.01% 18.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,642 3,423 4,323
10th Percentile £360 £336 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £675
90th Percentile £705 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 80 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.21 £28.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% - -36.36%
75th Percentile £62.00 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.60 £78.71 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £36.75 £33.22
% change year-on-year +4.08% +10.64% -39.61%

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 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in England

Amazon Aurora
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon Aurora.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon Aurora

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 26 August 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 -63 53 £550 -8.33% 27
Midlands -63 9 - -
West Midlands -70 8 - -
North of England -77 6 £538 +7.50% 2
East of England -22 3 £350 - 3
North West -56 3 £650 +30.00% 1
North East - 3 £425 - 1
South West - 3 £585 - 2
South East -71 2 £533 +18.33% 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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 8 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (10.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.56%) nginx
4 1 (1.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 37 (47.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 30 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (35.90%) Serverless
6 27 (34.62%) AWS KMS
7 25 (32.05%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (29.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (20.51%) GitHub
10 15 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (17.95%) Azure
11 14 (17.95%) Route 53
12 13 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (14.10%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
15 4 (5.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 4 (5.13%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.26%) Firewall
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) FTP
2 2 (2.56%) HTTP
2 2 (2.56%) IMAP
2 2 (2.56%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (2.56%) SMTP
2 2 (2.56%) SSH
3 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (80.77%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (67.95%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (17.95%) DynamoDB
3 14 (17.95%) MongoDB
3 14 (17.95%) MySQL
4 12 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 12 (15.38%) Redis
5 11 (14.10%) SQL Server
6 7 (8.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (7.69%) Big Data
8 5 (6.41%) OLTP
8 5 (6.41%) Presto
9 4 (5.13%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (5.13%) Data Lake
9 4 (5.13%) Data Vault
9 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (5.13%) Db2
10 2 (2.56%) Pinecone
10 2 (2.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 39 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (37.18%) Git
3 9 (11.54%) JIRA
3 9 (11.54%) JUnit
3 9 (11.54%) Maven
3 9 (11.54%) Mockito
3 9 (11.54%) SonarQube
4 7 (8.97%) DbUnit
5 6 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (7.69%) jMock
6 4 (5.13%) GitLab
7 2 (2.56%) Flyway
7 2 (2.56%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.56%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 15 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.38%) Finance
5 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Banking
6 2 (2.56%) Billing
6 2 (2.56%) Local Government
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) DBA
2 18 (23.08%) Developer
3 15 (19.23%) Administrator
4 12 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (14.10%) Senior
6 10 (12.82%) Architect
6 10 (12.82%) Data Engineer
6 10 (12.82%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 7 (8.97%) AWS Developer
8 7 (8.97%) Python Developer
8 7 (8.97%) SQL Developer
9 6 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Scala Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) AWS Administrator
10 5 (6.41%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Senior DBA
10 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (52.56%) Terraform
2 22 (28.21%) RESTful
3 12 (15.38%) Spring
3 12 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 11 (14.10%) Kafka
4 11 (14.10%) REST
5 9 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (11.54%) AngularJS
5 9 (11.54%) Hibernate
5 9 (11.54%) JPA
5 9 (11.54%) SOAP
5 9 (11.54%) Spring Batch
5 9 (11.54%) Spring Integration
5 9 (11.54%) Web Services
6 8 (10.26%) Node.js
7 7 (8.97%) FastAPI
7 7 (8.97%) Flask
7 7 (8.97%) Pandas
7 7 (8.97%) Polars
7 7 (8.97%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.77%) Replication
2 12 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (14.10%) Cloud Native
4 8 (10.26%) Product Ownership
5 7 (8.97%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.56%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.56%) PACS
7 2 (2.56%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.56%) Reinsurance
7 2 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.28%) Clustering
8 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 32 (41.03%) Linux
2 12 (15.38%) Unix
3 9 (11.54%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (3.85%) Windows
5 2 (2.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.28%) VMS
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (65.38%) CI/CD
2 37 (47.44%) Performance Tuning
3 31 (39.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (37.18%) Agile
5 25 (32.05%) DevOps
6 24 (30.77%) Microservices
6 24 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (28.21%) High Availability
8 20 (25.64%) Data Modelling
9 17 (21.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (21.79%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (20.51%) Secrets Management
11 15 (19.23%) Observability
12 13 (16.67%) Analytics
12 13 (16.67%) Kanban
12 13 (16.67%) Scrum
12 13 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (16.67%) Test Automation
13 12 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
14 11 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 53 (67.95%) SQL
2 33 (42.31%) Python
3 25 (32.05%) Java
4 12 (15.38%) Groovy
5 10 (12.82%) C#
5 10 (12.82%) PowerShell
6 8 (10.26%) Scala
7 7 (8.97%) Perl
7 7 (8.97%) Shell Script
7 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
8 6 (7.69%) Bash
8 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.56%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (55.13%) Security Cleared
2 38 (48.72%) SC Cleared
3 19 (24.36%) AWS Certification
4 10 (12.82%) Azure Certification
5 9 (11.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.13%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.56%) GDPR
3 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (48.72%) Docker
2 7 (8.97%) Postfix
3 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.56%) DFS Replication
4 2 (2.56%) Dovecot
4 2 (2.56%) Squid
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (42.31%) Grafana
2 20 (25.64%) Prometheus
3 10 (12.82%) Kubernetes
4 6 (7.69%) Kibana
5 3 (3.85%) Rancher
6 2 (2.56%) Nessus
6 2 (2.56%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 10 (12.82%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (8.97%) Atlassian
4 5 (6.41%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.41%) Splunk
5 4 (5.13%) Oracle
6 2 (2.56%) Confluent
6 2 (2.56%) Databricks
6 2 (2.56%) Informatica
6 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.56%) Talend
7 1 (1.28%) Foundry
7 1 (1.28%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.28%) Google
7 1 (1.28%) IBM
7 1 (1.28%) Palantir