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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 106 94
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 -15
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 6 11 37
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.35% 0.67% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.91% 3.11% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 37
10th Percentile £429 £475 £423
25th Percentile £434 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £484 £525 £506
90th Percentile £486 £588 £530
UK median daily rate £550 £618 £475
% change year-on-year -10.93% +30.00% -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 314 354 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.09% 21.51% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 227 299
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -1.05% -3.85%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £561
90th Percentile £640 £589 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.07%
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 £51.00 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.83% -13.75% -33.33%

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 23 April 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 5 £463 -6.94%
Glasgow +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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 4 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DBA
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer in Test
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 2 (33.33%) SDET
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) linkerd
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace