Amazon Aurora Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Aurora
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon Aurora skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 321 364
Rank change year-on-year -3 +43 +137
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 49 38 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.34% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.67% 1.26% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 25 28
10th Percentile £390 £493 £319
25th Percentile £463 £513 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £566
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +19.21% +3.33%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £693 £723 £703
England median daily rate £575 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% +0.36%

All Database & BI Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,941 3,022 3,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.37% 21.55% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,044 2,070 2,551
10th Percentile £357 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 40
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.93
25th Percentile £29.25 £26.21 £26.13
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -2.29% +4.01%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.50 £55.28
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £64.50
England median hourly rate £43.50 £39.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -18.18%

Amazon Aurora
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon Aurora relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Amazon Aurora job vacancy trend in London

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon Aurora.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Aurora in London over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in London

Amazon Aurora
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South London - 9 £475 -
Central London -4 4 £548 -18.89% 1
Amazon Aurora
England

Amazon Aurora
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (22.45%) Confluence
2 9 (18.37%) nginx
3 1 (2.04%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Superset
3 1 (2.04%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (67.35%) Amazon S3
3 28 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (57.14%) Serverless
4 19 (38.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (36.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (32.65%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (28.57%) Route 53
8 13 (26.53%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (26.53%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (24.49%) Amazon MSK
9 12 (24.49%) Azure
10 11 (22.45%) AWS KMS
10 11 (22.45%) GitHub
11 10 (20.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (18.37%) Amazon ELB
12 9 (18.37%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (14.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (28.57%) DNS
2 9 (18.37%) Firewall
2 9 (18.37%) FTP
2 9 (18.37%) HTTP
2 9 (18.37%) IMAP
2 9 (18.37%) OpenLDAP
2 9 (18.37%) SMTP
2 9 (18.37%) SSH
3 1 (2.04%) VPN
3 1 (2.04%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (77.55%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (20.41%) Redis
4 9 (18.37%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (18.37%) DynamoDB
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (14.29%) MySQL
6 6 (12.24%) NoSQL
6 6 (12.24%) Relational Database
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (10.20%) DB2
7 5 (10.20%) OLTP
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (8.16%) Data Vault
8 4 (8.16%) DocumentDB
8 4 (8.16%) Flink
8 4 (8.16%) Star Schema
8 4 (8.16%) Tableau
9 3 (6.12%) Metadata
10 2 (4.08%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 21 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 16 (32.65%) Git
3 10 (20.41%) JIRA
4 9 (18.37%) Vagrant
5 6 (12.24%) GitLab
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.04%) JUnit
6 1 (2.04%) Maven
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Finance
3 9 (18.37%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.16%) Banking
6 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Architect
1 15 (30.61%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) AWS DevOps
2 11 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (20.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 10 (20.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Data Architect
5 7 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) AWS Architect
6 6 (12.24%) Developer
7 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Senior
8 4 (8.16%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Java Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Kafka Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
10 2 (4.08%) AWS Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.86%) Kafka
2 10 (20.41%) RESTful
3 9 (18.37%) LDAP
3 9 (18.37%) Spring
3 9 (18.37%) Spring Boot
4 7 (14.29%) REST
5 5 (10.20%) OAuth
5 5 (10.20%) OAuth2
5 5 (10.20%) React
6 4 (8.16%) Apache Avro
6 4 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (8.16%) gRPC
6 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
6 4 (8.16%) JPA
6 4 (8.16%) Keycloak
6 4 (8.16%) Node.js
6 4 (8.16%) OpenID
6 4 (8.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (8.16%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (8.16%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Replication
2 9 (18.37%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.16%) PACS
3 4 (8.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.12%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.04%) Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.04%) DataPower
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
1 10 (20.41%) Ubuntu
1 10 (20.41%) Windows
2 9 (18.37%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (18.37%) VMS
3 3 (6.12%) zOS
4 1 (2.04%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) CI/CD
1 26 (53.06%) DevOps
2 18 (36.73%) Observability
2 18 (36.73%) Performance Tuning
3 16 (32.65%) Change Management
4 15 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (22.45%) Configuration Management
5 11 (22.45%) Event-Driven
6 10 (20.41%) Cloud Security
6 10 (20.41%) Data Modelling
6 10 (20.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 10 (20.41%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (20.41%) Secrets Management
7 9 (18.37%) Analytics
7 9 (18.37%) Data Engineering
7 9 (18.37%) Patch Management
7 9 (18.37%) Roadmaps
7 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
8 8 (16.33%) Migration
8 8 (16.33%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 29 (59.18%) Python
2 23 (46.94%) SQL
3 13 (26.53%) Groovy
4 9 (18.37%) Java
4 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
5 6 (12.24%) Bash
6 3 (6.12%) Go
6 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.08%) PHP
8 1 (2.04%) Assembly Language
8 1 (2.04%) COBOL
8 1 (2.04%) JCL
8 1 (2.04%) REXX
8 1 (2.04%) Ruby
8 1 (2.04%) Scala
8 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
1 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.41%) AWS Certification
3 9 (18.37%) Azure Certification
3 9 (18.37%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL Certification
4 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 5 (10.20%) ISO 20022
3 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.16%) NIST
3 4 (8.16%) PCI DSS
4 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (44.90%) Docker
2 9 (18.37%) DFS Replication
2 9 (18.37%) Dovecot
2 9 (18.37%) Postfix
2 9 (18.37%) Squid
Systems Management
1 28 (57.14%) Terraform
2 15 (30.61%) Grafana
3 14 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 12 (24.49%) Kubernetes
5 9 (18.37%) Nessus
5 9 (18.37%) Proxmox
6 4 (8.16%) Rancher
7 2 (4.08%) Ansible
8 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) ServiceNow
2 9 (18.37%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (8.16%) Confluent
3 4 (8.16%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.12%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.04%) Percona
5 1 (2.04%) Sage