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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 92 93
Rank change year-on-year -25 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 13 28 19
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.59% 1.65% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.61% 7.00% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 16
10th Percentile £420 £430 £421
25th Percentile £425 £464 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +3.79% -0.99%
75th Percentile £490 £561 £486
90th Percentile £540 £631 £494
UK median daily rate £559 £500 £483
% change year-on-year +11.80% +3.52% -3.25%

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 360 400 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.27% 23.58% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 230 200
10th Percentile £313 £300 £307
25th Percentile £358 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +8.67% -8.63%
75th Percentile £493 £545 £511
90th Percentile £575 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £24.58 £26.17 £17.45
25th Percentile £39.69 £36.05 £18.26
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +180.76% -44.03%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Aurora in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in Scotland

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 August 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 -8 7 £470 -10.48% 4
Edinburgh -14 6 £475 -0.52% 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) MySQL
2 6 (46.15%) MariaDB
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
2 4 (30.77%) Selenium
3 3 (23.08%) Gradle
3 3 (23.08%) Maven
3 3 (23.08%) WebDriver
3 3 (23.08%) webpack
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (69.23%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer in Test
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
1 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 5 (38.46%) React
3 4 (30.77%) Gherkin
3 4 (30.77%) Node.js
3 4 (30.77%) RESTful
4 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (23.08%) Jest
4 3 (23.08%) Redux
4 3 (23.08%) Vue
5 2 (15.38%) OAuth
5 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
5 2 (15.38%) Playwright
5 2 (15.38%) REST
5 2 (15.38%) Spring Security
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
6 1 (7.69%) CSS
6 1 (7.69%) Flask
6 1 (7.69%) HTML
6 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) BDD
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) SDET
5 3 (23.08%) Service Management
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
5 3 (23.08%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) Bash
3 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 4 (30.77%) Python
5 3 (23.08%) Groovy
5 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
6 2 (15.38%) Go
6 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) linkerd
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace