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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 489 530
Rank change year-on-year +39 +41 +124
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 115 74 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.90% 1.10% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 49 92
10th Percentile £413 £438 £413
25th Percentile £456 £460 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.88% -2.98%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £617
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -7.69%

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 6,043 6,697 7,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.16% 17.81% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,055 4,509 5,554
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -2.31% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £736 £788 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 90 157
10th Percentile £20.78 £17.50 £19.40
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £39.48 £33.22 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -34.94% +2.11%
75th Percentile £64.69 £61.19 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £50.53
% change year-on-year +18.30% -40.63% +24.05%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 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
UK excluding London +15 69 £500 +5.26% 18
England +54 67 £500 -14.16% 27
Work from Home +27 52 £500 +1.21% 18
London +35 40 £544 -2.47% 19
Scotland +4 30 £510 +7.65%
West Midlands - 22 £475 -
Midlands - 22 £475 -
North of England -12 13 £563 - 2
North West -6 12 £575 -
South East - 2 £450 - 15
South West +9 1 £450 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 2
East of England - 1 - -

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 14 (12.17%) Confluence
2 13 (11.30%) nginx
3 3 (2.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.87%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (53.04%) Amazon S3
3 54 (46.96%) Serverless
4 53 (46.09%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (37.39%) Amazon EC2
6 33 (28.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (27.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (25.22%) Amazon SQS
9 25 (21.74%) GitHub
9 25 (21.74%) Route 53
10 23 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (20.00%) Azure
11 21 (18.26%) AWS KMS
12 20 (17.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (16.52%) Datadog
14 17 (14.78%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (10.43%) Amazon ELB
16 12 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.04%) DNS
2 14 (12.17%) HTTP
3 12 (10.43%) IMAP
3 12 (10.43%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (10.43%) SMTP
4 10 (8.70%) Firewall
4 10 (8.70%) FTP
4 10 (8.70%) SSH
5 4 (3.48%) Internet
5 4 (3.48%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.87%) VPN
6 1 (0.87%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (64.35%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (54.78%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (20.87%) DynamoDB
3 24 (20.87%) MySQL
4 14 (12.17%) Relational Database
5 12 (10.43%) NoSQL
6 11 (9.57%) Redis
7 10 (8.70%) SQL Server
8 8 (6.96%) MariaDB
9 6 (5.22%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (5.22%) BigQuery
9 6 (5.22%) Oracle Database
9 6 (5.22%) RDBMS
10 5 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (4.35%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.61%) DocumentDB
11 3 (2.61%) Metadata
12 2 (1.74%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 53 (46.09%) Jenkins
2 41 (35.65%) Git
3 21 (18.26%) SonarQube
4 17 (14.78%) Maven
5 13 (11.30%) JIRA
6 12 (10.43%) Cypress.io
6 12 (10.43%) JUnit
6 12 (10.43%) Vagrant
7 11 (9.57%) Storybook
8 8 (6.96%) Mockito
9 6 (5.22%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (5.22%) DbUnit
9 6 (5.22%) jMock
10 5 (4.35%) Gradle
10 5 (4.35%) SonarLint
11 2 (1.74%) webpack
12 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.87%) Selenium
12 1 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 34 (29.57%) Public Sector
3 14 (12.17%) Finance
4 10 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.87%) Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Legal
7 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (32.17%) Developer
2 20 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (15.65%) Java Developer
4 17 (14.78%) Architect
4 17 (14.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.17%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (11.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) Senior
7 12 (10.43%) Lead
8 11 (9.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (8.70%) DBA
9 10 (8.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) AWS Developer
11 6 (5.22%) Java Architect
11 6 (5.22%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (5.22%) Software Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.74%) RESTful
2 24 (20.87%) React
3 23 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 21 (18.26%) AWS CDK
5 20 (17.39%) Spring
6 17 (14.78%) REST
7 16 (13.91%) CSS
8 13 (11.30%) Hibernate
8 13 (11.30%) Node.js
9 12 (10.43%) ActiveMQ
9 12 (10.43%) JPA
9 12 (10.43%) LDAP
9 12 (10.43%) SOAP
10 11 (9.57%) Kafka
11 10 (8.70%) AngularJS
11 10 (8.70%) Web Services
12 9 (7.83%) Spring Batch
12 9 (7.83%) Spring Integration
12 9 (7.83%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (6.96%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 20 (17.39%) Replication
3 8 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.22%) Clustering
5 5 (4.35%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.87%) NHS
8 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.61%) Linux
2 12 (10.43%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (10.43%) VMS
3 11 (9.57%) Ubuntu
3 11 (9.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.87%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.43%) DevOps
2 54 (46.96%) CI/CD
3 41 (35.65%) Agile
4 40 (34.78%) Microservices
5 34 (29.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (24.35%) Containerisation
7 25 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (20.87%) TDD
9 18 (15.65%) Change Management
10 17 (14.78%) Configuration Management
10 17 (14.78%) Scrum
11 16 (13.91%) Cloud Security
11 16 (13.91%) Roadmaps
11 16 (13.91%) Software Engineering
12 15 (13.04%) Clean Code
12 15 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
12 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.17%) Migration
13 14 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (40.87%) Python
2 40 (34.78%) SQL
3 33 (28.70%) Java
4 26 (22.61%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.17%) Groovy
5 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
6 11 (9.57%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.09%) C#
8 6 (5.22%) Bash
8 6 (5.22%) Go
9 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.74%) Ruby
10 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.87%) PHP
11 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.91%) AWS Certification
4 12 (10.43%) Degree
5 10 (8.70%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.48%) QA
4 2 (1.74%) WCAG
5 1 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (46.09%) Docker
2 18 (15.65%) Postfix
3 12 (10.43%) Dovecot
3 12 (10.43%) Squid
4 10 (8.70%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (46.96%) Terraform
2 33 (28.70%) Grafana
3 29 (25.22%) Kubernetes
4 27 (23.48%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.43%) Nessus
6 10 (8.70%) Proxmox
7 9 (7.83%) Ansible
8 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.48%) Puppet
9 2 (1.74%) Rancher
10 1 (0.87%) linkerd
10 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (12.17%) ServiceNow
3 10 (8.70%) Oracle
4 7 (6.09%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.35%) Gigya
6 4 (3.48%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.48%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.87%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) Informatica
8 1 (0.87%) Pega
8 1 (0.87%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.87%) Sage
8 1 (0.87%) SAP
8 1 (0.87%) Talend
8 1 (0.87%) Virgin Media