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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 450 494
Rank change year-on-year -90 +44 +56
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 83 67 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.15% 1.20% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 46 83
10th Percentile £415 £450 £344
25th Percentile £453 £484 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £618 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +30.00% -0.84%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £575
90th Percentile £662 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% +0.21%
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 7,233 5,584 7,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.77% 19.06% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,955 3,852 5,129
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.03% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 108 152
10th Percentile £18.23 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.90 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.63 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +61.19% -9.60% -39.70%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -110 65 £583 -10.25% 9
London -54 38 £582 -13.81% 6
UK excluding London -81 35 £550 +10.00% 6
Work from Home -29 22 £581 +4.64% 6
West Midlands -52 13 £475 +13.10%
Midlands -54 13 £475 +13.10%
Scotland 0 6 £463 -7.50% 1
North of England -65 6 £600 +9.09%
South West -25 4 £606 -6.77%
North West -40 4 £650 +18.18%
East of England -28 3 - - 2
South East - 2 £525 - 3
North East - 2 £425 -
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 (12.05%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (12.05%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.61%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) nginx
4 1 (1.20%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 81 (97.59%) AWS
2 47 (56.63%) Amazon S3
3 39 (46.99%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (44.58%) Serverless
5 29 (34.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (32.53%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (30.12%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (28.92%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (26.51%) GitHub
9 22 (26.51%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (25.30%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (21.69%) Route 53
12 14 (16.87%) Amazon MSK
12 14 (16.87%) AWS KMS
13 12 (14.46%) Amazon EventBridge
14 11 (13.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (13.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (12.05%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (12.05%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (9.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) HTTP
2 1 (1.20%) Internet
2 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (63.86%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (51.81%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (45.78%) DynamoDB
4 21 (25.30%) NoSQL
5 20 (24.10%) MySQL
6 15 (18.07%) MongoDB
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (10.84%) Big Data
9 8 (9.64%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (9.64%) Data Vault
9 8 (9.64%) Redis
9 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
10 7 (8.43%) OLTP
10 7 (8.43%) Presto
11 6 (7.23%) DocumentDB
11 6 (7.23%) Flink
11 6 (7.23%) Star Schema
12 5 (6.02%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (6.02%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (6.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (46.99%) Jenkins
2 23 (27.71%) Git
3 14 (16.87%) JUnit
3 14 (16.87%) Maven
4 13 (15.66%) Mockito
4 13 (15.66%) SonarQube
5 10 (12.05%) DbUnit
5 10 (12.05%) jMock
6 8 (9.64%) Bitbucket Server
6 8 (9.64%) GitLab
7 4 (4.82%) NUnit
7 4 (4.82%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (3.61%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.41%) JIRA
9 2 (2.41%) Selenium
9 2 (2.41%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.20%) Gatling
10 1 (1.20%) Gradle
General
1 17 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (20.48%) Public Sector
2 14 (16.87%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.25%) Finance
4 3 (3.61%) Banking
5 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.41%) Local Government
6 1 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.20%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.20%) Dutch Language
6 1 (1.20%) French Language
6 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (31.33%) Developer
2 17 (20.48%) Senior
3 16 (19.28%) Architect
3 16 (19.28%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Data Architect
5 8 (9.64%) Scala Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) AWS Architect
6 7 (8.43%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) DBA
6 7 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Lead
7 6 (7.23%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Java Architect
9 4 (4.82%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.82%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.12%) REST
2 24 (28.92%) Spring
3 23 (27.71%) RESTful
3 23 (27.71%) Spring Boot
4 22 (26.51%) Kafka
5 19 (22.89%) JPA
6 17 (20.48%) Hibernate
6 17 (20.48%) Spring Cloud
7 15 (18.07%) AngularJS
8 14 (16.87%) Web Services
9 13 (15.66%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (15.66%) SOAP
9 13 (15.66%) Spring Batch
9 13 (15.66%) Spring Integration
10 12 (14.46%) Node.js
11 10 (12.05%) OAuth
11 10 (12.05%) PowerMock
12 9 (10.84%) .NET
12 9 (10.84%) OAuth2
13 8 (9.64%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (20.48%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.43%) Replication
4 5 (6.02%) PACS
4 5 (6.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (4.82%) Hedge funds
5 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.82%) Mainframe
5 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) VSAM
7 1 (1.20%) Clustering
7 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.20%) DataPower
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (31.33%) Linux
2 11 (13.25%) Unix
3 4 (4.82%) zOS
4 2 (2.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (62.65%) CI/CD
2 39 (46.99%) DevOps
3 34 (40.96%) Microservices
4 30 (36.14%) Agile
4 30 (36.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (30.12%) Event-Driven
6 24 (28.92%) Containerisation
7 23 (27.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 20 (24.10%) Observability
8 20 (24.10%) Scrum
8 20 (24.10%) Test Automation
9 17 (20.48%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (20.48%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (19.28%) Analytics
10 16 (19.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (19.28%) Kanban
10 16 (19.28%) TDD
11 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (15.66%) Data Modelling
13 12 (14.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (62.65%) SQL
2 34 (40.96%) Java
3 29 (34.94%) Python
4 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.25%) C#
6 10 (12.05%) Scala
7 9 (10.84%) Bash
8 6 (7.23%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.82%) Groovy
9 4 (4.82%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.61%) Go
11 2 (2.41%) COBOL
11 2 (2.41%) Ruby
12 1 (1.20%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.20%) JCL
12 1 (1.20%) PHP
12 1 (1.20%) REXX
Qualifications
1 27 (32.53%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.20%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.20%) OCP
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) QA
2 6 (7.23%) ISO 20022
2 6 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.23%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.82%) NIST
4 3 (3.61%) GDPR
5 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 48 (57.83%) Docker
2 9 (10.84%) Postfix
3 4 (4.82%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 39 (46.99%) Terraform
2 36 (43.37%) Grafana
3 13 (15.66%) Prometheus
4 11 (13.25%) Kubernetes
5 8 (9.64%) Kibana
6 4 (4.82%) Ansible
6 4 (4.82%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.82%) Rancher
7 2 (2.41%) linkerd
8 1 (1.20%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (15.66%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (12.05%) Atlassian
3 9 (10.84%) Oracle
4 7 (8.43%) Splunk
5 5 (6.02%) Confluent
5 5 (6.02%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.82%) IBM
6 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.20%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.20%) Percona
7 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.20%) Virgin Media