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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 457 483
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 +190
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 69 44 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.27% 0.86% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 27 42
10th Percentile £380 £495 £334
25th Percentile £438 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £566
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +19.21% +6.34%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £697
90th Percentile £685 £715 £709
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.48% +5.00% +2.25%

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 5,431 5,136 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.13% 18.27% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 3,411 4,307
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £660
90th Percentile £716 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 74 131
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.74 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.25 £23.10 £25.32
Median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.80 £72.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%

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 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 1 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 -4 49 £548 -18.89% 18
North of England -41 14 £575 -4.17% 3
North West -14 13 £575 -4.17% 3
Midlands - 10 £475 - 3
West Midlands - 10 £475 - 3
East of England -15 2 - - 3
South East - 2 £525 - 2
South West -11 1 £450 -25.00% 2
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 (17.39%) Confluence
2 10 (14.49%) nginx
3 3 (4.35%) Apache
4 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.45%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.45%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (60.87%) AWS Lambda
2 42 (60.87%) Serverless
3 35 (50.72%) Amazon S3
4 28 (40.58%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (37.68%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (34.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (28.99%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (28.99%) GitHub
8 19 (27.54%) Route 53
9 18 (26.09%) Azure
9 18 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (21.74%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (18.84%) Amazon MSK
11 13 (18.84%) Datadog
11 13 (18.84%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (17.39%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (17.39%) AWS KMS
13 11 (15.94%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (15.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.19%) DNS
2 12 (17.39%) HTTP
3 10 (14.49%) Firewall
3 10 (14.49%) FTP
3 10 (14.49%) IMAP
3 10 (14.49%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (14.49%) SMTP
3 10 (14.49%) SSH
4 2 (2.90%) Internet
4 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.45%) VPN
5 1 (1.45%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (71.01%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (60.87%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (31.88%) DynamoDB
4 17 (24.64%) NoSQL
5 15 (21.74%) Redis
6 12 (17.39%) MySQL
6 12 (17.39%) Relational Database
7 8 (11.59%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (11.59%) RDBMS
8 7 (10.14%) DocumentDB
9 6 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (7.25%) BigQuery
10 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
10 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
11 4 (5.80%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (5.80%) DB2
11 4 (5.80%) OLTP
12 3 (4.35%) Flink
12 3 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (43.48%) Jenkins
2 24 (34.78%) Git
3 11 (15.94%) JIRA
4 10 (14.49%) Vagrant
5 6 (8.70%) Gradle
5 6 (8.70%) Maven
5 6 (8.70%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.25%) GitLab
6 5 (7.25%) SonarLint
7 2 (2.90%) JUnit
8 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.45%) Gatling
General
1 31 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.84%) Finance
3 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 10 (14.49%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.90%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Architect
2 16 (23.19%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (20.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
4 12 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (14.49%) Developer
7 9 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (13.04%) Java Architect
7 9 (13.04%) Senior
8 8 (11.59%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 6 (8.70%) Data Architect
9 6 (8.70%) Java Technical Architect
9 6 (8.70%) Lead
9 6 (8.70%) Technical Architect
10 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
11 4 (5.80%) AWS Architect
11 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
11 4 (5.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (33.33%) Kafka
2 15 (21.74%) RESTful
2 15 (21.74%) Spring Boot
3 11 (15.94%) Spring
4 10 (14.49%) LDAP
5 9 (13.04%) React
6 8 (11.59%) Node.js
6 8 (11.59%) REST
7 6 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (8.70%) JWT
8 5 (7.25%) Dropwizard
8 5 (7.25%) J2EE
8 5 (7.25%) Micronaut
9 4 (5.80%) .NET
9 4 (5.80%) Celery
9 4 (5.80%) JPA
9 4 (5.80%) JSON
9 4 (5.80%) Keycloak
9 4 (5.80%) OAuth
9 4 (5.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.54%) Replication
2 16 (23.19%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.25%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (7.25%) N-Tier
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.35%) PACS
5 3 (4.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.90%) Clustering
6 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.90%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.45%) DataPower
7 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Windows
3 11 (15.94%) Ubuntu
4 10 (14.49%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (14.49%) VMS
5 2 (2.90%) zOS
6 1 (1.45%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (55.07%) CI/CD
1 38 (55.07%) DevOps
2 20 (28.99%) Performance Tuning
3 19 (27.54%) Event-Driven
4 18 (26.09%) Change Management
4 18 (26.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 18 (26.09%) Microservices
5 17 (24.64%) Agile
6 16 (23.19%) Containerisation
6 16 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (23.19%) Observability
7 14 (20.29%) Configuration Management
7 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (18.84%) Roadmaps
8 13 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (15.94%) Cloud Security
9 11 (15.94%) Data Engineering
9 11 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (14.49%) Patch Management
10 10 (14.49%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.17%) Python
2 32 (46.38%) SQL
3 16 (23.19%) Java
4 14 (20.29%) Groovy
5 11 (15.94%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.70%) Bash
7 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.35%) Go
9 2 (2.90%) PHP
9 2 (2.90%) Ruby
9 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.45%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.45%) C#
10 1 (1.45%) COBOL
10 1 (1.45%) JCL
10 1 (1.45%) REXX
10 1 (1.45%) Scala
10 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.84%) AWS Certification
4 12 (17.39%) Degree
5 10 (14.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.45%) OCP
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) QA
2 4 (5.80%) ISO 20022
3 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.35%) NIST
3 3 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (52.17%) Docker
2 10 (14.49%) DFS Replication
2 10 (14.49%) Dovecot
2 10 (14.49%) Postfix
2 10 (14.49%) Squid
Systems Management
1 42 (60.87%) Terraform
2 19 (27.54%) Kubernetes
3 18 (26.09%) Grafana
4 17 (24.64%) Prometheus
5 10 (14.49%) Nessus
5 10 (14.49%) Proxmox
6 5 (7.25%) Ansible
7 4 (5.80%) Rancher
8 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.90%) Puppet
9 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) ServiceNow
2 10 (14.49%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (7.25%) Gigya
4 4 (5.80%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.35%) Confluent
6 2 (2.90%) IBM
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle
6 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.45%) Percona
7 1 (1.45%) Sage
7 1 (1.45%) SAP