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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 440 520
Rank change year-on-year -107 +80 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 105 92 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.34% 1.64% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 68 59
10th Percentile £443 £434 £400
25th Percentile £512 £465 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% +5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £575
90th Percentile £863 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.25% +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 7,856 5,606 7,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.31% 18.32% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,202 3,797 5,378
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £636 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 99 150
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.52 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £26.00 £20.82
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -29.08%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.13 £53.29
90th Percentile £76.85 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.52% -4.12% -40.00%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -99 72 £582 -0.98% 10
UK excluding London -100 44 £516 +3.25% 4
London -78 39 £582 -8.39% 7
Work from Home -51 38 £581 +16.28% 4
Midlands -59 18 £475 - 2
West Midlands -55 17 £475 - 2
Scotland -28 8 £473 -5.50%
South West -25 6 £606 -6.77%
North of England -72 6 £538 +7.50% 1
East of England -24 3 £350 -36.36%
North West -45 3 £650 +30.00%
North East - 3 £425 - 1
South East -66 2 £533 +18.33% 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 10 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (5.71%) Confluence
4 2 (1.90%) Apache
4 2 (1.90%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 103 (98.10%) AWS
2 54 (51.43%) AWS Lambda
3 52 (49.52%) Serverless
4 51 (48.57%) Amazon S3
5 42 (40.00%) GitHub
6 40 (38.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 40 (38.10%) Amazon SQS
7 34 (32.38%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (28.57%) Route 53
9 23 (21.90%) Amazon EventBridge
10 22 (20.95%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (20.95%) AWS KMS
11 21 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (14.29%) Azure
14 13 (12.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (9.52%) Amazon MSK
16 8 (7.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) DNS
2 3 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (63.81%) Amazon RDS
1 67 (63.81%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (48.57%) DynamoDB
3 30 (28.57%) MySQL
4 19 (18.10%) NoSQL
5 12 (11.43%) MongoDB
6 10 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (8.57%) Big Data
8 8 (7.62%) Redis
9 7 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (6.67%) Data Vault
9 7 (6.67%) Presto
10 5 (4.76%) Apache Hudi
10 5 (4.76%) Flink
10 5 (4.76%) MariaDB
10 5 (4.76%) OLTP
10 5 (4.76%) Star Schema
11 4 (3.81%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (3.81%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (3.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (51.43%) Jenkins
2 42 (40.00%) Git
3 18 (17.14%) JUnit
3 18 (17.14%) Maven
3 18 (17.14%) Mockito
3 18 (17.14%) SonarQube
4 14 (13.33%) DbUnit
5 13 (12.38%) jMock
6 12 (11.43%) Claude Code
7 11 (10.48%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (6.67%) GitLab
9 6 (5.71%) JIRA
10 4 (3.81%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.81%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (3.81%) Selenium
11 3 (2.86%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (25.71%) Public Sector
2 20 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.38%) Finance
5 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Local Government
7 1 (0.95%) Banking
7 1 (0.95%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.95%) French Language
7 1 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (27.62%) Developer
2 20 (19.05%) Architect
2 20 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (19.05%) Senior
3 19 (18.10%) Java Developer
4 16 (15.24%) AWS Architect
5 12 (11.43%) DBA
6 10 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Scala Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Technical Architect
8 7 (6.67%) AWS Developer
8 7 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Lambda Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Python Developer
8 7 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.67%) SQL Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Lead
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (32.38%) REST
1 34 (32.38%) RESTful
2 24 (22.86%) Spring
2 24 (22.86%) Spring Boot
3 23 (21.90%) JPA
4 22 (20.95%) Hibernate
5 20 (19.05%) Spring Cloud
6 19 (18.10%) AngularJS
7 18 (17.14%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (17.14%) SOAP
7 18 (17.14%) Spring Batch
7 18 (17.14%) Spring Integration
7 18 (17.14%) Web Services
8 17 (16.19%) Kafka
9 16 (15.24%) Node.js
10 15 (14.29%) .NET
11 13 (12.38%) PowerMock
12 12 (11.43%) AWS CDK
13 11 (10.48%) Bootstrap
14 10 (9.52%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.81%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 16 (15.24%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.57%) Replication
4 7 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 5 (4.76%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.81%) PACS
6 4 (3.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.90%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.95%) PropTech
9 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.95%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 38 (36.19%) Linux
2 14 (13.33%) Unix
3 4 (3.81%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.90%) zOS
5 1 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (67.62%) CI/CD
2 54 (51.43%) Microservices
3 37 (35.24%) Agile
4 35 (33.33%) DevOps
5 34 (32.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (30.48%) Event-Driven
7 25 (23.81%) Observability
7 25 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
7 25 (23.81%) Scrum
8 22 (20.95%) Technical Debt
9 21 (20.00%) Kanban
10 20 (19.05%) Containerisation
10 20 (19.05%) TDD
10 20 (19.05%) Test Automation
11 18 (17.14%) API Design
11 18 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (16.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 17 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (15.24%) BDD
14 14 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 57 (54.29%) SQL
2 40 (38.10%) Java
3 34 (32.38%) Python
4 22 (20.95%) C#
5 14 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.38%) JavaScript
7 10 (9.52%) Scala
8 8 (7.62%) Bash
8 8 (7.62%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.67%) Groovy
9 7 (6.67%) Shell Script
10 5 (4.76%) PL/SQL
11 4 (3.81%) Perl
12 2 (1.90%) Go
12 2 (1.90%) Ruby
13 1 (0.95%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 40 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 31 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.43%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.62%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.71%) PCI DSS
1 6 (5.71%) QA
2 4 (3.81%) ISO 20022
2 4 (3.81%) NIST
3 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 49 (46.67%) Docker
2 11 (10.48%) Postfix
3 4 (3.81%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (43.81%) Grafana
1 46 (43.81%) Terraform
2 22 (20.95%) Prometheus
3 19 (18.10%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.62%) Kibana
5 4 (3.81%) Data Guard
6 3 (2.86%) Rancher
7 2 (1.90%) Ansible
7 2 (1.90%) linkerd
8 1 (0.95%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 17 (16.19%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 12 (11.43%) Oracle
4 7 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.67%) Splunk
5 6 (5.71%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.81%) Confluent
7 2 (1.90%) IBM
7 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.95%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.95%) Virgin Media