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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 451 493
Rank change year-on-year -99 +42 +50
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 84 67 29
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.24% 0.090%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.23% 1.32% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 43 19
10th Percentile £388 £403 £488
25th Percentile £481 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -9.09% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £622 £671 £749
UK median daily rate £544 £500 £494
% change year-on-year +8.75% +1.21% -2.08%
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 6,805 5,069 5,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.62% 18.14% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,521 3,464 3,974
10th Percentile £350 £335 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £716 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 74 84
10th Percentile £15.99 £20.83 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.19 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £40.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +11.02% -32.24%
75th Percentile £60.94 £64.94 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £38.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.46% +10.99% -33.33%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -56 64 £533 -9.36% 64
Midlands -58 9 £404 -15.05% 1
West Midlands -64 6 - - 1
South West -40 3 £585 +30.00% 2
North of England -78 3 £425 -24.44% 4
South East -64 2 £533 +18.33% 17
East Midlands - 2 £404 -
East of England -24 1 £350 - 6
Yorkshire -34 1 £400 +6.67% 1
North West -50 1 £650 +13.04% 2
North East - 1 £425 - 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 10 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (11.90%) Confluence
2 8 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) nginx
4 1 (1.19%) Apache
4 1 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Gliffy
1 1 (1.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (47.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 40 (47.62%) Amazon S3
3 29 (34.52%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (32.14%) AWS KMS
5 26 (30.95%) Serverless
6 24 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 21 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (21.43%) Azure
9 15 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (16.67%) GitHub
11 12 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (14.29%) Route 53
12 11 (13.10%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (5.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (5.95%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (5.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (2.38%) DNS
2 2 (2.38%) FTP
2 2 (2.38%) HTTP
2 2 (2.38%) IMAP
2 2 (2.38%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (2.38%) SMTP
2 2 (2.38%) SSH
3 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.19%) Network Security
3 1 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (84.52%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (69.05%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (17.86%) MongoDB
3 15 (17.86%) SQL Server
4 14 (16.67%) MySQL
4 14 (16.67%) Redis
5 12 (14.29%) DynamoDB
6 9 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (9.52%) NoSQL
8 7 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (7.14%) Big Data
9 6 (7.14%) Data Lake
10 5 (5.95%) OLTP
10 5 (5.95%) Presto
11 4 (4.76%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (4.76%) Db2
11 4 (4.76%) Metadata
11 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
11 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (44.05%) Jenkins
2 26 (30.95%) Git
3 11 (13.10%) JIRA
4 8 (9.52%) Maven
5 7 (8.33%) JUnit
5 7 (8.33%) Mockito
5 7 (8.33%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.14%) GitLab
7 5 (5.95%) DbUnit
8 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (4.76%) jMock
9 2 (2.38%) Flyway
9 2 (2.38%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.38%) Vagrant
10 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.19%) Gradle
General
1 29 (34.52%) Public Sector
2 27 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Finance
4 7 (8.33%) Banking
5 4 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Billing
7 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Local Government
7 2 (2.38%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Back Office
8 1 (1.19%) Marketing
8 1 (1.19%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 29 (34.52%) DBA
2 20 (23.81%) Administrator
3 15 (17.86%) Architect
4 14 (16.67%) Developer
5 13 (15.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (15.48%) Senior
6 11 (13.10%) Data Engineer
6 11 (13.10%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 9 (10.71%) Java Developer
8 8 (9.52%) AWS Administrator
9 7 (8.33%) AWS Architect
9 7 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (8.33%) Data Architect
9 7 (8.33%) Senior DBA
10 6 (7.14%) Scala Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared DBA
11 4 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (54.76%) Terraform
2 19 (22.62%) RESTful
3 14 (16.67%) Kafka
4 11 (13.10%) Spring
4 11 (13.10%) Spring Boot
5 10 (11.90%) REST
6 8 (9.52%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.52%) Hibernate
6 8 (9.52%) JPA
6 8 (9.52%) Node.js
7 7 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (8.33%) SOAP
7 7 (8.33%) Spring Batch
7 7 (8.33%) Spring Integration
7 7 (8.33%) Web Services
8 6 (7.14%) CSS
8 6 (7.14%) HTML
8 6 (7.14%) Play Framework
9 5 (5.95%) Bootstrap
9 5 (5.95%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 31 (36.90%) Replication
2 11 (13.10%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (11.90%) Cloud Native
4 9 (10.71%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.95%) Reference Data
6 4 (4.76%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.76%) Reinsurance
7 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.38%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.38%) PACS
7 2 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.19%) Clustering
8 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.19%) Derivative
8 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.19%) PKI
8 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.76%) Linux
2 9 (10.71%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (10.71%) Unix
3 3 (3.57%) Windows
4 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.19%) VMS
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 42 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 36 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (38.10%) Agile
5 30 (35.71%) DevOps
6 29 (34.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (29.76%) Data Modelling
8 23 (27.38%) High Availability
9 22 (26.19%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (23.81%) Microservices
10 20 (23.81%) Secrets Management
11 19 (22.62%) Observability
11 19 (22.62%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (21.43%) Test Automation
13 16 (19.05%) Validation
14 15 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (16.67%) Analytics
15 14 (16.67%) Migration
16 13 (15.48%) Data Integration
16 13 (15.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (60.71%) SQL
2 30 (35.71%) Python
3 25 (29.76%) Java
4 13 (15.48%) Groovy
5 8 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 8 (9.52%) Scala
6 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.33%) Perl
7 6 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.95%) Bash
8 5 (5.95%) C#
9 4 (4.76%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 44 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 22 (26.19%) AWS Certification
4 11 (13.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (11.90%) Azure Certification
5 10 (11.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (42.86%) Docker
2 5 (5.95%) Postfix
3 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.38%) DFS Replication
4 2 (2.38%) Dovecot
4 2 (2.38%) Squid
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (39.29%) Grafana
2 20 (23.81%) Prometheus
3 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
4 6 (7.14%) Kibana
5 4 (4.76%) Rancher
6 2 (2.38%) Nessus
6 2 (2.38%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) ServiceNow
2 8 (9.52%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.95%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.95%) Splunk
5 4 (4.76%) Databricks
5 4 (4.76%) Informatica
5 4 (4.76%) Talend
6 2 (2.38%) Confluent
6 2 (2.38%) GoldenSource
6 2 (2.38%) Google
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.38%) Oracle
6 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.38%) Teradata
7 1 (1.19%) Foundry
7 1 (1.19%) IBM
7 1 (1.19%) Palantir
7 1 (1.19%) Sparx