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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 449 513
Rank change year-on-year -116 +64 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 102 97 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.25% 1.63% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 72 46
10th Percentile £416 £410 £414
25th Percentile £500 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% +3.20% +0.16%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £594
90th Percentile £865 £653 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £478
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.46% -0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 8,153 5,954 7,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.42% 18.18% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,407 4,032 5,135
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 92 106
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.28 £14.63
25th Percentile £25.10 £23.50 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.36 £36.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% -3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £61.31 £64.06 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.15 £78.58 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% +5.47% -41.46%

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 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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 28 July 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 -105 66 £563 +12.50% 19
UK excluding London -102 41 £475 -3.85% 13
Work from Home -65 39 £582 +17.05% 8
London -65 37 £575 -6.88% 11
Midlands -51 18 £475 - 1
West Midlands -53 17 £475 - 1
Scotland -30 10 £473 -4.93% 4
North of England -70 6 £538 +7.50% 4
North West -47 3 £650 +30.00% 3
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East of England - 3 £350 - 1
South West -34 2 £585 -10.00%
South East -69 2 £533 +18.33% 3

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 10 (9.80%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.86%) Confluence
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 100 (98.04%) AWS
2 51 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 49 (48.04%) Amazon S3
3 49 (48.04%) Serverless
4 40 (39.22%) GitHub
5 39 (38.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 38 (37.25%) Amazon SQS
7 32 (31.37%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (25.49%) Route 53
10 23 (22.55%) Amazon EventBridge
10 23 (22.55%) AWS KMS
11 18 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (15.69%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (15.69%) Azure
13 15 (14.71%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (9.80%) SaaS
15 8 (7.84%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (60.78%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (59.80%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (44.12%) DynamoDB
4 25 (24.51%) MySQL
5 15 (14.71%) NoSQL
6 9 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (8.82%) Big Data
6 9 (8.82%) MongoDB
7 7 (6.86%) Presto
8 6 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (5.88%) MariaDB
9 5 (4.90%) Apache Hudi
9 5 (4.90%) Data Vault
9 5 (4.90%) OLTP
10 4 (3.92%) Db2
10 4 (3.92%) Redis
11 3 (2.94%) Flink
11 3 (2.94%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 53 (51.96%) Jenkins
2 45 (44.12%) Git
3 19 (18.63%) Maven
4 18 (17.65%) JUnit
4 18 (17.65%) Mockito
4 18 (17.65%) SonarQube
5 14 (13.73%) Claude Code
5 14 (13.73%) DbUnit
6 13 (12.75%) jMock
7 11 (10.78%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (6.86%) JIRA
9 5 (4.90%) GitLab
10 4 (3.92%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.92%) Selenium
11 3 (2.94%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.98%) Flyway
12 1 (0.98%) Gradle
12 1 (0.98%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.98%) webpack
General
1 29 (28.43%) Public Sector
2 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.76%) Finance
5 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Local Government
7 1 (0.98%) Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.98%) French Language
7 1 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (30.39%) Developer
2 24 (23.53%) Senior
3 22 (21.57%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (18.63%) Java Developer
5 14 (13.73%) Architect
6 11 (10.78%) AWS Architect
6 11 (10.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (9.80%) DBA
8 9 (8.82%) Data Engineer
8 9 (8.82%) Lambda Engineer
9 8 (7.84%) Scala Engineer
9 8 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 8 (7.84%) Technical Architect
10 7 (6.86%) AWS Developer
10 7 (6.86%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (6.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Python Developer
10 7 (6.86%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Lead
11 6 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (32.35%) REST
1 33 (32.35%) RESTful
2 23 (22.55%) Spring
2 23 (22.55%) Spring Boot
3 20 (19.61%) AngularJS
4 19 (18.63%) JPA
5 18 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (17.65%) Hibernate
5 18 (17.65%) Node.js
5 18 (17.65%) SOAP
5 18 (17.65%) Spring Batch
5 18 (17.65%) Spring Integration
5 18 (17.65%) Web Services
6 16 (15.69%) .NET
6 16 (15.69%) Spring Cloud
7 15 (14.71%) AWS CDK
8 13 (12.75%) PowerMock
9 12 (11.76%) Kafka
10 11 (10.78%) Bootstrap
11 10 (9.80%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.57%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (15.69%) Product Ownership
3 13 (12.75%) Cloud Native
4 11 (10.78%) Replication
5 7 (6.86%) Hedge funds
6 6 (5.88%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.96%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.96%) PACS
8 2 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.98%) PropTech
9 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.98%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 39 (38.24%) Linux
2 14 (13.73%) Unix
3 5 (4.90%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.96%) Windows
4 2 (1.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (72.55%) CI/CD
2 54 (52.94%) Microservices
3 39 (38.24%) Agile
4 35 (34.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (31.37%) DevOps
6 28 (27.45%) Event-Driven
7 25 (24.51%) Performance Tuning
7 25 (24.51%) Scrum
8 24 (23.53%) Observability
9 22 (21.57%) Technical Debt
10 21 (20.59%) Kanban
11 20 (19.61%) API Design
11 20 (19.61%) Containerisation
11 20 (19.61%) TDD
12 19 (18.63%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (18.63%) Test Automation
13 16 (15.69%) BDD
14 14 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (12.75%) Analytics
15 13 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (50.98%) SQL
2 40 (39.22%) Java
3 36 (35.29%) Python
4 23 (22.55%) C#
5 17 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 14 (13.73%) JavaScript
7 10 (9.80%) Scala
8 9 (8.82%) Bash
8 9 (8.82%) Groovy
8 9 (8.82%) PowerShell
9 8 (7.84%) Shell Script
10 5 (4.90%) Perl
11 2 (1.96%) Go
11 2 (1.96%) Ruby
12 1 (0.98%) COBOL
12 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 33 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.82%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.94%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.96%) GDPR
2 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (47.06%) Docker
2 11 (10.78%) Postfix
3 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (48.04%) Grafana
2 46 (45.10%) Terraform
3 23 (22.55%) Prometheus
4 16 (15.69%) Kubernetes
5 8 (7.84%) Kibana
6 3 (2.94%) Rancher
7 2 (1.96%) Ansible
7 2 (1.96%) linkerd
8 1 (0.98%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 17 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (13.73%) Atlassian
3 8 (7.84%) Oracle
3 8 (7.84%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.86%) Splunk
5 6 (5.88%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.96%) Confluent
6 2 (1.96%) IBM
6 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.98%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.98%) Virgin Media