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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 83 91
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 10 23 43
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.68% 1.46% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.23% 7.74% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 39
10th Percentile £419 £438 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.05% -2.86%
75th Percentile £525 £496 £528
90th Percentile £542 £525 £546
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

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 310 297 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.06% 18.81% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 187 290
10th Percentile £313 £356 £396
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -6.20% +2.56%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £15.13 - -
25th Percentile £20.94 £19.59 £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.75 £23.05 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% +18.18% -15.22%
75th Percentile £40.44 £27.91 £20.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £28.19 -
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%

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 9 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
Edinburgh -2 6 £500 +4.17%
Glasgow +2 4 £510 +2.82%
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 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (90.00%) Serverless
3 8 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (30.00%) Textract
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (10.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Data Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 4 (40.00%) Node.js
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (30.00%) React
3 3 (30.00%) SpaCy
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (20.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) Spring
4 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (20.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Spring Web Flow
4 2 (20.00%) Thymeleaf
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) CSS3
5 1 (10.00%) HTML5
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Data Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (30.00%) Kanban
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) Go
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) linkerd
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (10.00%) Ping Identity