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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 95 92
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 8 19 36
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.43% 1.18% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 5.29% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 36
10th Percentile £436 £457 £422
25th Percentile £451 £473 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £492
90th Percentile £489 £623 £517
UK median daily rate £581 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -3.17% +26.32% -0.84%

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 334 359 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.03% 22.28% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 229 291
10th Percentile £313 £297 £325
25th Percentile £358 £408 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% -0.63% -3.06%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £591 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile £19.53 £20.72 £24.60
25th Percentile £39.69 £22.42 £29.04
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £37.07
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -28.51% +5.91%
75th Percentile £54.69 £28.07 £45.72
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.25 £50.54
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -32.54%

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 7 May 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
Edinburgh -18 5 £463 -6.94%
Glasgow -1 3 £480 -12.73% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) MySQL
2 5 (62.50%) MariaDB
3 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) DBA
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) BDD
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) SDET
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Contingency Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Go
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) linkerd
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace