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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 436 486
Rank change year-on-year -56 +50 +137
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 94 79 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.51% 1.38% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 54 81
10th Percentile £416 £450 £400
25th Percentile £458 £475 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £688 £595
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +8.62% -1.20% -

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 6,229 5,725 7,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.71% 18.30% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,298 3,767 5,044
10th Percentile £333 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £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% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 79 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.78 £16.01
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -22.22% -20.86%
75th Percentile £74.37 £64.61 £63.56
90th Percentile £84.10 £67.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £28.65 £42.50
% change year-on-year +72.29% -32.59% -22.73%

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 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Top 14 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 20 January 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 -32 71 £580 -14.07% 10
London -19 48 £580 -14.07% 4
UK excluding London -41 42 £537 +8.62% 5
Work from Home -16 31 £525 +6.28% 5
North of England -42 13 £575 -4.17% 2
North West -13 12 £575 -4.17% 1
Scotland -6 10 £510 +5.05%
West Midlands -24 9 £475 -
Midlands -33 9 £475 -
South West -4 5 £606 +0.93% 1
East of England -16 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 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 11 (11.70%) Confluence
2 10 (10.64%) nginx
3 3 (3.19%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.06%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (9.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (60.64%) Serverless
3 56 (59.57%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (53.19%) Amazon S3
5 32 (34.04%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (32.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (27.66%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (27.66%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (24.47%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (24.47%) GitHub
9 20 (21.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (21.28%) Azure
10 19 (20.21%) Route 53
10 19 (20.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (17.02%) Amazon MSK
11 16 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (15.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (13.83%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (13.83%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (13.83%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) DNS
2 11 (11.70%) HTTP
3 9 (9.57%) Firewall
3 9 (9.57%) FTP
3 9 (9.57%) IMAP
3 9 (9.57%) OpenLDAP
3 9 (9.57%) SMTP
3 9 (9.57%) SSH
4 2 (2.13%) Internet
4 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (1.06%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (64.89%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (53.19%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (29.79%) DynamoDB
3 28 (29.79%) MySQL
4 19 (20.21%) NoSQL
5 17 (18.09%) Relational Database
6 14 (14.89%) Redis
7 10 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (10.64%) MongoDB
8 9 (9.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (9.57%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (8.51%) DocumentDB
9 8 (8.51%) RDBMS
10 6 (6.38%) SQL Server
11 5 (5.32%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (5.32%) BigQuery
11 5 (5.32%) DB2
11 5 (5.32%) OLTP
12 4 (4.26%) Data Vault
12 4 (4.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 36 (38.30%) Jenkins
2 26 (27.66%) Git
3 10 (10.64%) JIRA
4 9 (9.57%) Vagrant
5 6 (6.38%) GitLab
5 6 (6.38%) Gradle
5 6 (6.38%) Maven
5 6 (6.38%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.32%) SonarLint
7 4 (4.26%) NUnit
7 4 (4.26%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.13%) JUnit
10 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.06%) Gatling
10 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 36 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.09%) Public Sector
3 14 (14.89%) Finance
4 9 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Banking
7 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.06%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Architect
2 20 (21.28%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (17.02%) Developer
4 15 (15.96%) Senior
5 14 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (11.70%) Data Architect
7 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (10.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 10 (10.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (10.64%) Java Architect
9 9 (9.57%) AWS Architect
9 9 (9.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (8.51%) Software Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) DBA
11 7 (7.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Lead
12 6 (6.38%) Java Developer
12 6 (6.38%) Java Technical Architect
12 6 (6.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.66%) Kafka
2 18 (19.15%) RESTful
2 18 (19.15%) Spring Boot
3 15 (15.96%) REST
4 14 (14.89%) OAuth
4 14 (14.89%) Spring
5 13 (13.83%) .NET
5 13 (13.83%) AWS CDK
6 11 (11.70%) JWT
6 11 (11.70%) OAuth2
6 11 (11.70%) React
7 9 (9.57%) .NET Core
7 9 (9.57%) LDAP
7 9 (9.57%) Node.js
8 6 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (5.32%) Dropwizard
9 5 (5.32%) J2EE
9 5 (5.32%) JPA
9 5 (5.32%) Micronaut
10 4 (4.26%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.15%) Replication
3 8 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.32%) N-Tier
5 5 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.26%) PACS
6 4 (4.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.19%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.13%) Clustering
9 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.06%) DataPower
9 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.06%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.83%) Linux
2 11 (11.70%) Windows
3 10 (10.64%) Ubuntu
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (9.57%) VMS
5 3 (3.19%) zOS
6 1 (1.06%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (55.32%) DevOps
2 51 (54.26%) CI/CD
3 31 (32.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.85%) Microservices
5 26 (27.66%) Event-Driven
6 25 (26.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 25 (26.60%) Observability
7 24 (25.53%) Containerisation
8 23 (24.47%) Agile
8 23 (24.47%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (20.21%) Data Modelling
10 19 (20.21%) Roadmaps
11 17 (18.09%) Change Management
12 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (14.89%) Analytics
13 14 (14.89%) Cloud Security
14 13 (13.83%) Design Patterns
14 13 (13.83%) Migration
14 13 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (47.87%) Python
2 41 (43.62%) SQL
3 20 (21.28%) Java
4 13 (13.83%) Groovy
5 11 (11.70%) PowerShell
6 10 (10.64%) C#
7 9 (9.57%) TypeScript
8 8 (8.51%) Bash
9 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.26%) Go
10 4 (4.26%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.13%) PHP
11 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.06%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.06%) COBOL
12 1 (1.06%) JCL
12 1 (1.06%) REXX
12 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.09%) AWS Certification
3 15 (15.96%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.70%) Degree
5 9 (9.57%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.26%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.06%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (1.06%) OCP
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) QA
2 9 (9.57%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.32%) ISO 20022
4 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.26%) NIST
4 4 (4.26%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.06%) GDPR
6 1 (1.06%) SLA
6 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (51.06%) Docker
2 9 (9.57%) DFS Replication
2 9 (9.57%) Dovecot
2 9 (9.57%) Postfix
2 9 (9.57%) Squid
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (55.32%) Terraform
2 25 (26.60%) Grafana
3 24 (25.53%) Kubernetes
4 17 (18.09%) Prometheus
5 9 (9.57%) Nessus
5 9 (9.57%) Proxmox
6 8 (8.51%) Ansible
7 4 (4.26%) Data Guard
7 4 (4.26%) Rancher
8 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.13%) Puppet
9 1 (1.06%) linkerd
9 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (13.83%) ServiceNow
2 9 (9.57%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (6.38%) Oracle
4 5 (5.32%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.32%) Gigya
5 4 (4.26%) Confluent
5 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.19%) IBM
7 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.06%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.06%) Percona
8 1 (1.06%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.06%) Sage
8 1 (1.06%) SAP