Amazon Aurora Contract Job Trends

Amazon Aurora
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon Aurora skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 445 483
Rank change year-on-year -76 +38 +119
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 81 84 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.21% 1.47% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 58 98
10th Percentile £431 £450 £413
25th Percentile £463 £476 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £583 £482
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +20.85% +0.63%
75th Percentile £609 £688 £583
90th Percentile £675 £700 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £496 £480
% change year-on-year +8.87% +3.33% +0.21%

All Database & BI 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 6,673 5,704 7,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.29% 18.56% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,592 3,829 5,158
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 92 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.07 £16.04
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.94 £21.64
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.58% -9.87% -24.01%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.63 £70.00 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +87.50% -25.47% -28.04%

Amazon Aurora
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon Aurora relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon Aurora job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Aurora.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Aurora over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Top 13 Contract Job 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 21 February 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
England -77 59 £600 -11.11% 13
London -45 39 £605 -10.37% 5
UK excluding London -77 34 £540 +8.87% 11
Work from Home -27 25 £525 +5.00% 9
West Midlands -45 11 £475 +13.10% 5
Midlands -45 11 £475 +13.10% 5
Scotland -5 9 £525 +6.92%
South West -21 5 £606 +0.87%
North West -29 5 £600 - 1
North of England -57 5 £600 - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 5
East of England -22 1 - -
Wales - 1 £500 -

Amazon Aurora
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (9.88%) Confluence
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
2 4 (4.94%) nginx
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Superset
4 1 (1.23%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.47%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 79 (97.53%) AWS
2 49 (60.49%) Amazon S3
3 42 (51.85%) AWS Lambda
3 42 (51.85%) Serverless
4 29 (35.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (29.63%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (27.16%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (25.93%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (20.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (19.75%) GitHub
9 16 (19.75%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (19.75%) Route 53
10 15 (18.52%) Amazon MSK
11 13 (16.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (14.81%) AWS KMS
12 12 (14.81%) Azure
13 9 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.35%) DNS
2 5 (6.17%) HTTP
3 4 (4.94%) Firewall
3 4 (4.94%) FTP
3 4 (4.94%) IMAP
3 4 (4.94%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (4.94%) SMTP
3 4 (4.94%) SSH
4 1 (1.23%) Internet
4 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.23%) VPN
4 1 (1.23%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (62.96%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (49.38%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (35.80%) DynamoDB
4 24 (29.63%) MySQL
5 12 (14.81%) Relational Database
6 11 (13.58%) NoSQL
7 10 (12.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (12.35%) MongoDB
8 9 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (9.88%) DocumentDB
9 8 (9.88%) Redis
10 6 (7.41%) DB2
10 6 (7.41%) OLTP
11 5 (6.17%) Data Vault
11 5 (6.17%) Flink
11 5 (6.17%) Star Schema
12 4 (4.94%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
12 4 (4.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (34.57%) Jenkins
2 20 (24.69%) Git
3 9 (11.11%) JUnit
4 8 (9.88%) Maven
5 7 (8.64%) GitLab
5 7 (8.64%) JIRA
5 7 (8.64%) Mockito
5 7 (8.64%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.41%) DbUnit
6 6 (7.41%) jMock
7 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (4.94%) NUnit
7 4 (4.94%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (4.94%) Vagrant
8 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.23%) Gatling
9 1 (1.23%) Gradle
General
1 27 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.99%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.05%) Finance
4 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Banking
7 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.47%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (25.93%) Architect
2 20 (24.69%) Developer
3 14 (17.28%) Senior
4 12 (14.81%) Data Architect
4 12 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 10 (12.35%) AWS Architect
5 10 (12.35%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (11.11%) Lead
7 8 (9.88%) DBA
7 8 (9.88%) Software Engineer
8 7 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) AWS Data Architect
10 5 (6.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (4.94%) Java Architect
11 4 (4.94%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.40%) Kafka
2 21 (25.93%) REST
3 20 (24.69%) Spring
4 19 (23.46%) Spring Boot
5 15 (18.52%) Node.js
6 13 (16.05%) .NET
6 13 (16.05%) JPA
6 13 (16.05%) OAuth
7 12 (14.81%) AWS CDK
8 11 (13.58%) Hibernate
8 11 (13.58%) RESTful
8 11 (13.58%) Spring Cloud
9 10 (12.35%) OAuth2
9 10 (12.35%) React
10 9 (11.11%) .NET Core
11 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
11 8 (9.88%) Web Services
12 7 (8.64%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (8.64%) SOAP
12 7 (8.64%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Cloud Native
2 14 (17.28%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (16.05%) Replication
4 5 (6.17%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.94%) Mainframe
5 4 (4.94%) PACS
5 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.47%) Clustering
7 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.47%) VSAM
8 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.23%) DataPower
8 1 (1.23%) NHS
8 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Linux
2 6 (7.41%) Windows
3 5 (6.17%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.94%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (4.94%) VMS
4 4 (4.94%) zOS
5 1 (1.23%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (59.26%) DevOps
2 44 (54.32%) CI/CD
3 29 (35.80%) Microservices
4 27 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (29.63%) Observability
6 22 (27.16%) Agile
6 22 (27.16%) Containerisation
6 22 (27.16%) Event-Driven
6 22 (27.16%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (25.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 19 (23.46%) Data Modelling
9 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (18.52%) Analytics
11 14 (17.28%) Roadmaps
12 13 (16.05%) Migration
12 13 (16.05%) TDD
13 12 (14.81%) Data Protection
13 12 (14.81%) Software Engineering
13 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (13.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.91%) SQL
2 29 (35.80%) Python
3 20 (24.69%) Java
4 9 (11.11%) C#
5 8 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.64%) Groovy
7 6 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.17%) Bash
9 4 (4.94%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.47%) COBOL
10 2 (2.47%) PHP
11 1 (1.23%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.23%) Go
11 1 (1.23%) JCL
11 1 (1.23%) REXX
11 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.05%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.64%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.17%) Degree
6 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.23%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (1.23%) OCP
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) QA
2 7 (8.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.17%) ISO 20022
4 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.94%) NIST
4 4 (4.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (48.15%) Docker
2 9 (11.11%) Postfix
3 4 (4.94%) DFS Replication
3 4 (4.94%) Dovecot
3 4 (4.94%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (4.94%) Squid
4 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (43.21%) Terraform
2 25 (30.86%) Grafana
3 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
4 9 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.41%) Ansible
6 4 (4.94%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.94%) Nessus
6 4 (4.94%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.70%) Rancher
8 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.23%) Puppet
8 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (13.58%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (8.64%) Atlassian
2 7 (8.64%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.41%) Oracle
4 4 (4.94%) Confluent
4 4 (4.94%) IBM
5 3 (3.70%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.23%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.23%) Percona
6 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.23%) Virgin Media