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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 455 520
Rank change year-on-year -105 +65 -3
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 99 95 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.23% 1.60% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 70 61
10th Percentile £421 £412 £400
25th Percentile £500 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% +4.17% +0.21%
75th Percentile £650 £635 £575
90th Percentile £870 £654 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.50% +5.26% -0.84%
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 8,077 5,942 7,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 18.18% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,341 4,029 5,376
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 103 139
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.13 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £64.88 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £31.25
% change year-on-year +20.89% +1.25% -39.02%

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 13 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 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 13 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 -104 64 £566 +7.74% 17
UK excluding London -104 42 £483 -3.50% 6
Work from Home -61 39 £582 +16.35% 6
London -61 34 £581 -8.50% 11
Midlands -49 18 £475 -
West Midlands -66 17 £475 -
Scotland -31 9 £470 -6.00% 1
North of England -73 6 £538 +7.50% 3
East of England -19 3 £350 -36.36%
South West -31 3 £585 -10.00%
North West -52 3 £650 +30.00% 2
North East - 3 £425 - 1
South East -74 2 £533 +18.33% 2
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 10 (10.10%) Apache Spark
2 9 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.07%) Confluence
4 2 (2.02%) Apache
4 2 (2.02%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 97 (97.98%) AWS
2 49 (49.49%) AWS Lambda
3 47 (47.47%) Serverless
4 46 (46.46%) Amazon S3
5 39 (39.39%) GitHub
6 37 (37.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 37 (37.37%) Amazon SQS
7 31 (31.31%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (31.31%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (26.26%) Route 53
9 23 (23.23%) AWS KMS
10 22 (22.22%) Amazon EventBridge
11 18 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (16.16%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (16.16%) Azure
13 14 (14.14%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (9.09%) SaaS
15 8 (8.08%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (62.63%) Amazon RDS
2 59 (59.60%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (45.45%) DynamoDB
4 25 (25.25%) MySQL
5 15 (15.15%) NoSQL
6 9 (9.09%) Big Data
6 9 (9.09%) MongoDB
7 8 (8.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (7.07%) Presto
9 6 (6.06%) MariaDB
10 5 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (5.05%) Apache Hudi
10 5 (5.05%) Data Vault
11 4 (4.04%) Redis
12 3 (3.03%) Flink
12 3 (3.03%) OLTP
12 3 (3.03%) Star Schema
13 2 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
13 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 52 (52.53%) Jenkins
2 44 (44.44%) Git
3 19 (19.19%) Maven
4 18 (18.18%) JUnit
4 18 (18.18%) Mockito
4 18 (18.18%) SonarQube
5 14 (14.14%) DbUnit
6 13 (13.13%) Claude Code
6 13 (13.13%) jMock
7 11 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (7.07%) JIRA
9 4 (4.04%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.04%) Selenium
10 3 (3.03%) GitLab
10 3 (3.03%) WebDriver
11 1 (1.01%) Gradle
11 1 (1.01%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 29 (29.29%) Public Sector
2 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.13%) Finance
5 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Local Government
7 1 (1.01%) Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.01%) French Language
7 1 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (29.29%) Developer
2 21 (21.21%) AWS Engineer
2 21 (21.21%) Senior
3 19 (19.19%) Java Developer
4 14 (14.14%) Architect
5 12 (12.12%) AWS Architect
6 11 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (10.10%) DBA
8 8 (8.08%) Data Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Lambda Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Scala Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Technical Architect
9 7 (7.07%) AWS Developer
9 7 (7.07%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Python Developer
9 7 (7.07%) Senior Developer
9 7 (7.07%) SQL Developer
10 6 (6.06%) Lead
10 6 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (31.31%) REST
1 31 (31.31%) RESTful
2 21 (21.21%) Spring
2 21 (21.21%) Spring Boot
3 20 (20.20%) AngularJS
4 19 (19.19%) JPA
5 18 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (18.18%) Hibernate
5 18 (18.18%) SOAP
5 18 (18.18%) Spring Batch
5 18 (18.18%) Spring Integration
5 18 (18.18%) Web Services
6 17 (17.17%) Node.js
7 16 (16.16%) .NET
7 16 (16.16%) Spring Cloud
8 13 (13.13%) AWS CDK
8 13 (13.13%) PowerMock
9 11 (11.11%) Bootstrap
9 11 (11.11%) Kafka
10 10 (10.10%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (16.16%) Product Ownership
3 12 (12.12%) Cloud Native
4 10 (10.10%) Replication
5 7 (7.07%) Hedge funds
6 6 (6.06%) AI Agents
7 4 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.02%) Mainframe
9 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.02%) PACS
9 2 (2.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (1.01%) PropTech
10 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (1.01%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 39 (39.39%) Linux
2 14 (14.14%) Unix
3 5 (5.05%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (2.02%) zOS
5 1 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (70.71%) CI/CD
2 52 (52.53%) Microservices
3 38 (38.38%) Agile
4 32 (32.32%) DevOps
4 32 (32.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (27.27%) Event-Driven
6 25 (25.25%) Scrum
7 22 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (22.22%) Technical Debt
8 21 (21.21%) Kanban
8 21 (21.21%) Observability
9 20 (20.20%) Containerisation
9 20 (20.20%) TDD
10 19 (19.19%) API Design
10 19 (19.19%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (18.18%) Test Automation
12 16 (16.16%) BDD
13 14 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (13.13%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (12.12%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 50 (50.51%) SQL
2 38 (38.38%) Java
3 35 (35.35%) Python
4 23 (23.23%) C#
5 15 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 13 (13.13%) JavaScript
7 10 (10.10%) Scala
8 9 (9.09%) Bash
8 9 (9.09%) Groovy
8 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
9 8 (8.08%) Shell Script
10 5 (5.05%) Perl
11 2 (2.02%) Go
11 2 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.02%) Ruby
12 1 (1.01%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 38 (38.38%) Security Cleared
2 32 (32.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.13%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 7 (7.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (2.02%) GDPR
1 2 (2.02%) ISO 20022
1 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.02%) QA
System Software
1 47 (47.47%) Docker
2 11 (11.11%) Postfix
3 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 47 (47.47%) Grafana
2 44 (44.44%) Terraform
3 23 (23.23%) Prometheus
4 15 (15.15%) Kubernetes
5 8 (8.08%) Kibana
6 3 (3.03%) Rancher
7 2 (2.02%) Ansible
7 2 (2.02%) linkerd
8 1 (1.01%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.01%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 17 (17.17%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (14.14%) Atlassian
3 9 (9.09%) Oracle
4 8 (8.08%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.07%) Splunk
6 6 (6.06%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.02%) Confluent
7 2 (2.02%) IBM
7 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.01%) GoldenSource
8 1 (1.01%) Virgin Media