Amazon Aurora Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Aurora
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon Aurora skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 96 97
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 6 20 37
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.37% 1.21% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.98% 5.73% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 36
10th Percentile £509 £435 £433
25th Percentile £514 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £478
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +3.46% -0.31%
75th Percentile £534 £508 £512
90th Percentile £538 £525 £540
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +4.38%

All Database & BI Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 303 349 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.91% 21.16% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 232 287
10th Percentile £313 £300 £339
25th Percentile £358 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £455 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.21% -3.23%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £583 £600 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile £36.50 - £18.93
25th Percentile - £19.59 £19.95
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.05 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +116.97% +6.49% -27.87%
75th Percentile £57.25 £27.91 £37.70
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.19 £47.33
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.93% -29.57%

Amazon Aurora
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Amazon Aurora job vacancy trend in Scotland

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Amazon Aurora
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 March 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
Glasgow +13 4 £525 +5.42%
Edinburgh -10 2 - - 1
Amazon Aurora
UK

Amazon Aurora
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Data Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer in Test
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle