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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 449 489
Rank change year-on-year -55 +40 +113
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 83 83 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.28% 1.47% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 97
10th Percentile £424 £450 £408
25th Percentile £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +11.50% +4.38%
75th Percentile £609 £688 £586
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £498 £480
% change year-on-year +8.43% +3.75% +0.21%

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 6,460 5,655 7,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.41% 18.42% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,439 3,732 5,226
10th Percentile £336 £355 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 87 178
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.97
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.17 £21.16
Median hourly rate £53.25 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.31% -9.41% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.86 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.50 £76.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £30.21 £40.25
% change year-on-year +81.07% -24.94% -29.21%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -63 61 £600 -11.11% 13
London -34 44 £600 -11.11% 6
UK excluding London -60 32 £540 +8.43% 11
Work from Home -33 27 £533 +7.70% 8
Scotland -2 9 £525 +6.92%
West Midlands -41 8 £475 - 3
Midlands -49 8 £475 - 3
North of England -57 6 £575 -4.17% 1
South West -16 5 £606 +0.87%
North West -23 5 £600 - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 6
East of England -17 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -
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%) Confluence
2 6 (7.23%) nginx
3 4 (4.82%) Apache
4 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.20%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.20%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 81 (97.59%) AWS
2 48 (57.83%) Amazon S3
3 45 (54.22%) AWS Lambda
3 45 (54.22%) Serverless
4 26 (31.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (28.92%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (27.71%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (22.89%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (22.89%) Amazon SQS
7 19 (22.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (21.69%) GitHub
9 17 (20.48%) Amazon MSK
10 16 (19.28%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (18.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (15.66%) Route 53
13 11 (13.25%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (13.25%) Azure
14 10 (12.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 10 (12.05%) AWS KMS
14 10 (12.05%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.46%) DNS
2 7 (8.43%) HTTP
3 6 (7.23%) Firewall
3 6 (7.23%) FTP
3 6 (7.23%) IMAP
3 6 (7.23%) OpenLDAP
3 6 (7.23%) SMTP
3 6 (7.23%) SSH
4 1 (1.20%) Internet
4 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.20%) VPN
4 1 (1.20%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (63.86%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (50.60%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (31.33%) DynamoDB
4 24 (28.92%) MySQL
5 13 (15.66%) NoSQL
6 12 (14.46%) Relational Database
7 10 (12.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (12.05%) MongoDB
8 9 (10.84%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (10.84%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (10.84%) Redis
9 8 (9.64%) DocumentDB
10 6 (7.23%) DB2
10 6 (7.23%) OLTP
11 5 (6.02%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (6.02%) Data Vault
11 5 (6.02%) Flink
11 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
11 5 (6.02%) Star Schema
12 4 (4.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (31.33%) Jenkins
2 19 (22.89%) Git
3 9 (10.84%) JIRA
4 7 (8.43%) GitLab
5 6 (7.23%) Vagrant
6 4 (4.82%) JUnit
6 4 (4.82%) NUnit
6 4 (4.82%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (3.61%) Maven
8 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.41%) DbUnit
8 2 (2.41%) jMock
8 2 (2.41%) Mockito
8 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.20%) Gatling
9 1 (1.20%) Gradle
General
1 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
3 13 (15.66%) Finance
4 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.41%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Architect
2 16 (19.28%) Developer
3 14 (16.87%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (16.87%) Senior
4 12 (14.46%) Data Architect
5 10 (12.05%) AWS Architect
6 9 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (9.64%) DBA
7 8 (9.64%) Lead
7 8 (9.64%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) Software Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.02%) AWS Data Architect
9 5 (6.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (31.33%) Kafka
2 16 (19.28%) REST
3 15 (18.07%) Spring
4 14 (16.87%) Spring Boot
5 13 (15.66%) .NET
5 13 (15.66%) OAuth
6 12 (14.46%) AWS CDK
7 10 (12.05%) Node.js
7 10 (12.05%) OAuth2
7 10 (12.05%) React
8 9 (10.84%) .NET Core
9 8 (9.64%) JPA
10 7 (8.43%) RESTful
11 6 (7.23%) Hibernate
11 6 (7.23%) JWT
11 6 (7.23%) LDAP
11 6 (7.23%) Spring Cloud
12 5 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (4.82%) gRPC
13 4 (4.82%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) Cloud Native
2 16 (19.28%) Replication
3 10 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.82%) Mainframe
5 4 (4.82%) PACS
5 4 (4.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.41%) Clustering
7 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.41%) VSAM
8 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.20%) DataPower
8 1 (1.20%) NHS
8 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.05%) Linux
2 8 (9.64%) Windows
3 7 (8.43%) Ubuntu
4 6 (7.23%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (7.23%) VMS
5 4 (4.82%) zOS
6 1 (1.20%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.83%) DevOps
2 44 (53.01%) CI/CD
3 30 (36.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (30.12%) Observability
5 24 (28.92%) Microservices
6 22 (26.51%) Event-Driven
7 21 (25.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 21 (25.30%) Performance Tuning
8 19 (22.89%) Containerisation
8 19 (22.89%) Data Modelling
9 18 (21.69%) Agile
10 16 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (18.07%) Analytics
11 15 (18.07%) Roadmaps
12 13 (15.66%) Change Management
12 13 (15.66%) Migration
13 12 (14.46%) Data Protection
13 12 (14.46%) Software Engineering
14 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (13.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) SQL
2 35 (42.17%) Python
3 15 (18.07%) Java
4 10 (12.05%) C#
4 10 (12.05%) Groovy
5 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.23%) Bash
6 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.82%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.61%) Go
9 2 (2.41%) COBOL
9 2 (2.41%) PHP
10 1 (1.20%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.20%) JCL
10 1 (1.20%) REXX
10 1 (1.20%) Scala
10 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.87%) AWS Certification
2 14 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.43%) Degree
5 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.61%) 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 11 (13.25%) QA
2 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.02%) ISO 20022
4 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.82%) NIST
4 4 (4.82%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (44.58%) Docker
2 8 (9.64%) Postfix
3 6 (7.23%) DFS Replication
3 6 (7.23%) Dovecot
3 6 (7.23%) Squid
4 4 (4.82%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (49.40%) Terraform
2 23 (27.71%) Grafana
3 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
4 12 (14.46%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.23%) Ansible
5 6 (7.23%) Nessus
5 6 (7.23%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.82%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.82%) Rancher
7 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.20%) Puppet
7 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (12.05%) ServiceNow
2 8 (9.64%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (7.23%) Oracle
4 4 (4.82%) Confluent
4 4 (4.82%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.82%) IBM
5 3 (3.61%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.20%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.20%) Percona
6 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.20%) Virgin Media