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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 89 84
Rank change year-on-year -43 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 13 30 28
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.55% 1.89% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 8.29% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 24
10th Percentile £420 £421 £429
25th Percentile £461 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £510 £474
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +7.65% +0.91%
75th Percentile £500 £546 £494
90th Percentile £543 £623 -
UK median daily rate £545 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +9.00% +1.11% -1.98%

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 395 362 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.61% 22.80% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 204 191
10th Percentile £313 £316 £333
25th Percentile £375 £412 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +8.50% -6.15%
75th Percentile £505 £538 £516
90th Percentile £588 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £17.72
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.92
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year - +180.76% -69.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £33.93
% change year-on-year +1.77% +16.36% -35.37%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -14 7 £470 -9.18% 3
Edinburgh -21 6 £500 -
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 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) MySQL
2 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (30.77%) MariaDB
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Gradle
2 3 (23.08%) Maven
2 3 (23.08%) webpack
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (69.23%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Lead
1 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Technical Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Test Manager
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Spring
1 10 (76.92%) Spring Boot
2 8 (61.54%) React
3 7 (53.85%) Node.js
4 6 (46.15%) Vue
5 5 (38.46%) REST
6 4 (30.77%) CSS
6 4 (30.77%) HTML
6 4 (30.77%) Next.js
6 4 (30.77%) RESTful
7 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
7 3 (23.08%) Jest
7 3 (23.08%) Redux
7 3 (23.08%) Spring MVC
8 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
8 2 (15.38%) OAuth
8 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
8 2 (15.38%) Spring Security
8 2 (15.38%) Spring Web Flow
8 2 (15.38%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (38.46%) Microservices
4 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (30.77%) Coaching
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (23.08%) Kanban
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) Service Management
6 3 (23.08%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
3 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Groovy
4 3 (23.08%) Python
4 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
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 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
1 4 (30.77%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
2 1 (7.69%) Kibana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) linkerd
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace