Amazon Aurora Contracts

Amazon Aurora
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon Aurora skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon Aurora over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 511 539
Rank change year-on-year +58 +28 +181
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 66 89 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.19% 1.22% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 79 142
10th Percentile £450 £349 £425
25th Percentile £480 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £688 £561 £537
90th Percentile £700 £694 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £479
% change year-on-year +4.17% +0.21% +3.23%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Amazon Aurora
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon Aurora as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon Aurora.

Daily rate trend for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Aurora over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England +67 51 £635 +30.26% 37
London +36 34 £635 +33.68% 26
Work from Home +35 23 £600 +26.32% 27
UK excluding London +26 23 £500 +4.17% 13
Scotland -18 10 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands +28 6 £420 -44.00% 1
West Midlands - 6 £420 - 1
South West +43 2 £650 - 2
East of England +32 2 £550 -15.38%
North West - 2 £550 - 4
North of England - 2 £550 - 4
South East +42 1 £500 -6.54% 4

Amazon Aurora
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.55%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) Apache
2 2 (3.03%) GeoServer
2 2 (3.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (48.48%) Amazon S3
3 29 (43.94%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (37.88%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (34.85%) Route 53
6 22 (33.33%) Serverless
7 21 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (22.73%) CloudFront
10 14 (21.21%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (18.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 6 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (9.09%) Azure
13 5 (7.58%) GitHub
14 4 (6.06%) AWS KMS
14 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
15 2 (3.03%) Azure Pipelines
15 2 (3.03%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.64%) DNS
1 9 (13.64%) HTTP
1 9 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 7 (10.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (62.12%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (30.30%) NoSQL
4 14 (21.21%) DynamoDB
5 13 (19.70%) DocumentDB
5 13 (19.70%) MySQL
6 12 (18.18%) Redis
7 8 (12.12%) Relational Database
8 7 (10.61%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
10 5 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (7.58%) MongoDB
11 4 (6.06%) Big Data
12 3 (4.55%) Couchbase
12 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (4.55%) GIS
12 3 (4.55%) OLTP
13 2 (3.03%) Apache Hive
13 2 (3.03%) Hadoop
13 2 (3.03%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 26 (39.39%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.61%) JUnit
2 7 (10.61%) Maven
3 5 (7.58%) Git
3 5 (7.58%) Mockito
3 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
4 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (6.06%) DbUnit
4 4 (6.06%) GitLab
4 4 (6.06%) jMock
5 3 (4.55%) JIRA
5 3 (4.55%) webpack
6 2 (3.03%) Ant
6 2 (3.03%) Postman
6 2 (3.03%) Selenium
7 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
General
1 20 (30.30%) Finance
2 14 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.18%) Banking
3 12 (18.18%) Retail Banking
4 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.03%) Military
7 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (33.33%) Developer
2 12 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Senior
5 8 (12.12%) Lead
6 7 (10.61%) C# Developer
6 7 (10.61%) DBA
6 7 (10.61%) Java Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (10.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Architect
9 4 (6.06%) AWS Developer
9 4 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Data Migration Lead
9 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.36%) RESTful
2 15 (22.73%) GraphQL
3 11 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 10 (15.15%) Spring
5 9 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (13.64%) React
5 9 (13.64%) REST
6 8 (12.12%) Hibernate
7 7 (10.61%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (10.61%) AngularJS
7 7 (10.61%) JPA
7 7 (10.61%) Node.js
7 7 (10.61%) SOAP
7 7 (10.61%) Web Services
8 6 (9.09%) Bootstrap
8 6 (9.09%) Spring Batch
8 6 (9.09%) Spring Integration
9 5 (7.58%) AWS CDK
9 5 (7.58%) Spring Cloud
10 4 (6.06%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Derivative
2 11 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.06%) Replication
5 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.55%) iPad
6 2 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.21%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) CentOS
2 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.91%) Agile
2 25 (37.88%) DevOps
3 23 (34.85%) Containerisation
4 22 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (28.79%) Microservices
6 16 (24.24%) CI/CD
7 15 (22.73%) TDD
8 13 (19.70%) SOLID
9 12 (18.18%) Asset Management
9 12 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (13.64%) Configuration Management
10 9 (13.64%) Migration
11 8 (12.12%) Scrum
11 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (10.61%) Data Migration
12 7 (10.61%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (10.61%) ETL
12 7 (10.61%) Mentoring
12 7 (10.61%) Software Engineering
12 7 (10.61%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) SQL
2 21 (31.82%) Java
3 17 (25.76%) Python
4 14 (21.21%) C#
5 12 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.58%) Scala
8 4 (6.06%) Bash
9 2 (3.03%) Go
9 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.03%) R
9 2 (3.03%) Rust
9 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 18 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.52%) NCSC
3 1 (1.52%) NIST
3 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (42.42%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) Postfix
3 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (33.33%) Terraform
2 21 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 16 (24.24%) Grafana
4 14 (21.21%) Prometheus
5 11 (16.67%) Ansible
6 10 (15.15%) Puppet
7 9 (13.64%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.52%) Istio
8 1 (1.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Red Hat
2 6 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 6 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle
4 4 (6.06%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.55%) VMware
6 2 (3.03%) Alteryx
6 2 (3.03%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.03%) Informatica
6 2 (3.03%) StreamSets
6 2 (3.03%) Talend
7 1 (1.52%) Virgin Media