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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 518 511
Rank change year-on-year +64 -7 +156
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 105 55 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.76% 0.80% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 38 105
10th Percentile £413 £435 £400
25th Percentile £456 £457 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £586
90th Percentile £650 £650 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £480
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 5,967 6,865 8,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.12% 17.95% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,995 4,734 5,804
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -1.43% -1.32%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 86 158
10th Percentile £22.85 £17.50 £20.76
25th Percentile £29.33 £20.88 £32.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +22.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.19 £73.70
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £54.75
% change year-on-year +18.30% -45.21% +56.43%

Amazon Aurora
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon Aurora as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Aurora 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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Top 12 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 17 September 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 +36 64 £500 +4.17% 16
England +70 61 £500 -7.83% 26
Work from Home +25 49 £500 +1.21% 13
London +46 37 £575 +4.55% 15
Scotland -2 28 £510 +7.37%
West Midlands - 22 £475 -
Midlands - 22 £475 -
North of England -3 11 £500 - 3
North West -7 10 £500 - 1
South East +23 2 £450 -15.89% 12
East of England +5 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 2

Amazon Aurora
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (12.38%) Confluence
1 13 (12.38%) nginx
2 1 (0.95%) Apache
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (11.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) AWS
2 50 (47.62%) Amazon S3
3 44 (41.90%) Amazon EC2
3 44 (41.90%) Serverless
4 42 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (31.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (29.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 25 (23.81%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (23.81%) Route 53
8 23 (21.90%) GitHub
9 21 (20.00%) AWS KMS
9 21 (20.00%) Azure
10 20 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (17.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (15.24%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (15.24%) Datadog
13 15 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (11.43%) Amazon ELB
14 12 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (7.62%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.10%) DNS
1 19 (18.10%) HTTP
2 12 (11.43%) IMAP
2 12 (11.43%) OpenLDAP
2 12 (11.43%) SMTP
3 10 (9.52%) Firewall
3 10 (9.52%) FTP
3 10 (9.52%) SSH
4 9 (8.57%) TCP/IP
5 8 (7.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (61.90%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (20.95%) DynamoDB
4 19 (18.10%) MySQL
5 11 (10.48%) NoSQL
6 10 (9.52%) Relational Database
7 9 (8.57%) Redis
8 8 (7.62%) MariaDB
8 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
9 6 (5.71%) BigQuery
10 5 (4.76%) Oracle Database
10 5 (4.76%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.86%) Metadata
11 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.90%) DocumentDB
12 2 (1.90%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (1.90%) Pinecone
12 2 (1.90%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 53 (50.48%) Jenkins
2 36 (34.29%) Git
3 21 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 17 (16.19%) Maven
5 13 (12.38%) JIRA
6 12 (11.43%) Cypress.io
6 12 (11.43%) Vagrant
7 11 (10.48%) JUnit
7 11 (10.48%) Storybook
8 8 (7.62%) Mockito
9 6 (5.71%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (5.71%) DbUnit
9 6 (5.71%) jMock
10 5 (4.76%) Gradle
10 5 (4.76%) SonarLint
11 2 (1.90%) webpack
12 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.95%) Selenium
12 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (31.43%) Public Sector
2 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Finance
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Legal
6 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (33.33%) Developer
2 23 (21.90%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (16.19%) Java Developer
5 16 (15.24%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (12.38%) Senior
8 12 (11.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 12 (11.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (10.48%) Architect
10 10 (9.52%) DBA
10 10 (9.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 10 (9.52%) Lead
11 7 (6.67%) AWS Developer
11 7 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (5.71%) Java Technical Architect
12 6 (5.71%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.71%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.76%) RESTful
2 22 (20.95%) React
2 22 (20.95%) Spring Boot
3 20 (19.05%) AWS CDK
4 19 (18.10%) Spring
5 16 (15.24%) CSS
5 16 (15.24%) REST
6 13 (12.38%) Hibernate
7 12 (11.43%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (11.43%) JPA
7 12 (11.43%) LDAP
7 12 (11.43%) SOAP
8 10 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 10 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (9.52%) Web Services
9 9 (8.57%) Jest
9 9 (8.57%) Node.js
9 9 (8.57%) Spring Batch
9 9 (8.57%) Spring Integration
9 9 (8.57%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Cloud Native
2 16 (15.24%) Replication
3 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.76%) Clustering
4 5 (4.76%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.95%) NHS
7 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.95%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.57%) Linux
2 12 (11.43%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (11.43%) VMS
3 11 (10.48%) Windows
4 10 (9.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.95%) Unix
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (48.57%) DevOps
2 49 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 39 (37.14%) Agile
4 37 (35.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (33.33%) Microservices
6 29 (27.62%) Containerisation
7 23 (21.90%) TDD
8 21 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 21 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
9 19 (18.10%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (16.19%) Scrum
11 16 (15.24%) Change Management
12 15 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 14 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (12.38%) BDD
14 13 (12.38%) Clean Code
14 13 (12.38%) Cloud Security
14 13 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (11.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (35.24%) Python
2 34 (32.38%) SQL
3 32 (30.48%) Java
4 27 (25.71%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 13 (12.38%) Groovy
7 11 (10.48%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.67%) Go
9 5 (4.76%) C#
10 4 (3.81%) Bash
11 3 (2.86%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.90%) Ruby
12 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.95%) Rust
13 1 (0.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (36.19%) Security Cleared
2 34 (32.38%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.48%) Degree
5 10 (9.52%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.90%) QA
4 2 (1.90%) WCAG
5 1 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (50.48%) Docker
2 18 (17.14%) Postfix
3 12 (11.43%) Dovecot
3 12 (11.43%) Squid
4 10 (9.52%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (49.52%) Terraform
2 37 (35.24%) Grafana
3 33 (31.43%) Kubernetes
4 31 (29.52%) Prometheus
5 12 (11.43%) Nessus
6 11 (10.48%) Ansible
7 10 (9.52%) Proxmox
8 9 (8.57%) Progress Chef
8 9 (8.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.95%) linkerd
9 1 (0.95%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (12.38%) ServiceNow
3 9 (8.57%) Oracle
3 9 (8.57%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.71%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.76%) Gigya
6 3 (2.86%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.95%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.95%) Google
8 1 (0.95%) Informatica
8 1 (0.95%) Pega
8 1 (0.95%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.95%) Sage
8 1 (0.95%) SAP
8 1 (0.95%) Talend
8 1 (0.95%) Virgin Media