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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 426 497
Rank change year-on-year -68 +71 +157
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 58 56 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.03% 1.16% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 47
10th Percentile £410 £476 £319
25th Percentile £494 £532 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -4.20%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £695
90th Percentile £698 - £725
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £482
% change year-on-year -5.58% +20.85% +0.63%

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 5,606 4,819 6,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 18.64% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,901 3,259 4,385
10th Percentile £342 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £660
90th Percentile £700 £776 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 85 156
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.75 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.25 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.66% -10.33% -24.01%

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 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 22 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 -38 38 £605 -10.37% 5
Midlands -43 10 £475 +13.10% 4
West Midlands -53 10 £475 +13.10% 4
North West -23 5 £600 - 1
South West -24 5 £606 +0.87%
North of England -58 5 £600 - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 5
East of England -25 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 7 (12.07%) Confluence
2 4 (6.90%) Apache
3 3 (5.17%) nginx
4 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.72%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 56 (96.55%) AWS
2 34 (58.62%) Amazon S3
3 28 (48.28%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (48.28%) Serverless
4 21 (36.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 20 (34.48%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (29.31%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (27.59%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (27.59%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (25.86%) Amazon MSK
8 15 (25.86%) Route 53
9 12 (20.69%) GitHub
9 12 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (20.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (18.97%) AWS KMS
11 9 (15.52%) Amazon EventBridge
11 9 (15.52%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (15.52%) Azure
12 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (12.07%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) DNS
2 4 (6.90%) HTTP
3 3 (5.17%) Firewall
3 3 (5.17%) FTP
3 3 (5.17%) IMAP
3 3 (5.17%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (5.17%) SMTP
3 3 (5.17%) SSH
4 1 (1.72%) Internet
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.72%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (70.69%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (56.90%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (44.83%) DynamoDB
4 12 (20.69%) MySQL
5 10 (17.24%) NoSQL
6 9 (15.52%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (15.52%) MongoDB
7 8 (13.79%) DocumentDB
7 8 (13.79%) Redis
8 7 (12.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (12.07%) Relational Database
9 6 (10.34%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (10.34%) DB2
9 6 (10.34%) OLTP
10 5 (8.62%) Data Vault
10 5 (8.62%) Flink
10 5 (8.62%) Star Schema
11 4 (6.90%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (6.90%) Tableau
12 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (39.66%) Jenkins
2 16 (27.59%) Git
3 9 (15.52%) JUnit
4 8 (13.79%) Maven
5 7 (12.07%) GitLab
5 7 (12.07%) Mockito
5 7 (12.07%) SonarQube
6 6 (10.34%) DbUnit
6 6 (10.34%) JIRA
6 6 (10.34%) jMock
7 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (6.90%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (5.17%) Vagrant
9 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.72%) Gatling
9 1 (1.72%) Gradle
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Finance
3 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Architect
2 15 (25.86%) Developer
3 11 (18.97%) Java Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Data Architect
5 8 (13.79%) Senior
5 8 (13.79%) Software Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) AWS Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Lead
7 6 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) DBA
9 4 (6.90%) Java Architect
9 4 (6.90%) Oracle DBA
10 3 (5.17%) Mainframe Architect
10 3 (5.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (39.66%) Kafka
2 18 (31.03%) Spring
3 17 (29.31%) Spring Boot
4 16 (27.59%) REST
5 12 (20.69%) JPA
5 12 (20.69%) Node.js
6 11 (18.97%) Hibernate
6 11 (18.97%) Spring Cloud
7 10 (17.24%) RESTful
8 8 (13.79%) AngularJS
8 8 (13.79%) Web Services
9 7 (12.07%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (12.07%) React
9 7 (12.07%) SOAP
9 7 (12.07%) Spring Batch
9 7 (12.07%) Spring Integration
10 6 (10.34%) PowerMock
11 5 (8.62%) OAuth
11 5 (8.62%) OAuth2
12 4 (6.90%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 11 (18.97%) Replication
3 10 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (8.62%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.90%) Mainframe
5 4 (6.90%) PACS
5 4 (6.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.45%) Clustering
7 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.45%) VSAM
8 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.72%) DataPower
8 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Windows
3 4 (6.90%) Ubuntu
3 4 (6.90%) zOS
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (5.17%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) DevOps
2 32 (55.17%) CI/CD
3 20 (34.48%) Microservices
4 18 (31.03%) Observability
4 18 (31.03%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (29.31%) Agile
5 17 (29.31%) Event-Driven
6 16 (27.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 15 (25.86%) Containerisation
7 15 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (20.69%) Analytics
9 11 (18.97%) Data Modelling
9 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (18.97%) TDD
10 10 (17.24%) Data Architecture
10 10 (17.24%) Software Engineering
11 9 (15.52%) Migration
11 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
11 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (56.90%) SQL
2 20 (34.48%) Python
3 18 (31.03%) Java
4 6 (10.34%) Groovy
5 5 (8.62%) Bash
6 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.45%) COBOL
8 2 (3.45%) PHP
8 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.72%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.72%) Go
9 1 (1.72%) JCL
9 1 (1.72%) REXX
9 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.79%) AWS Certification
4 6 (10.34%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.90%) Degree
5 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.72%) OCP
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) ISO 20022
3 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.90%) NIST
3 4 (6.90%) PCI DSS
4 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (50.00%) Docker
2 8 (13.79%) Postfix
3 4 (6.90%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (5.17%) DFS Replication
4 3 (5.17%) Dovecot
4 3 (5.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (39.66%) Terraform
2 17 (29.31%) Grafana
3 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
4 8 (13.79%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.90%) Ansible
5 4 (6.90%) Data Guard
6 3 (5.17%) Nessus
6 3 (5.17%) Proxmox
6 3 (5.17%) Rancher
7 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.72%) Puppet
7 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (12.07%) Atlassian
3 6 (10.34%) ServiceNow
4 5 (8.62%) Oracle
5 4 (6.90%) Confluent
5 4 (6.90%) IBM
6 3 (5.17%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.72%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.72%) Percona
7 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.72%) Virgin Media