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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 473 526
Rank change year-on-year +11 +53 +125
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 103 83 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.62% 1.28% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 52 94
10th Percentile £400 £439 £413
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £498 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% +2.00%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £622
90th Percentile £650 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -

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 6,362 6,462 7,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.90% 17.61% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,345 4,300 5,453
10th Percentile £333 £340 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 89 152
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.50 £17.13
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £23.06
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -35.04% +2.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.75 £69.06
90th Percentile £82.90 £64.78 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.10 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +78.55% -40.45% +13.38%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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
England 0 68 £503 -16.25% 18
UK excluding London -4 60 £500 +4.71% 10
Work from Home +2 44 £500 +1.21% 15
London +23 40 £513 -17.34% 10
Midlands - 21 £475 -
West Midlands - 21 £475 -
Scotland -14 20 £515 +8.42%
North of England -30 14 £575 - 6
North West -8 13 £575 - 3
East of England - 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £355 - 2
South West -4 1 £450 -25.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 3

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 (13.59%) Confluence
2 13 (12.62%) nginx
3 4 (3.88%) Apache
4 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.97%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (52.43%) Amazon S3
3 47 (45.63%) Serverless
4 46 (44.66%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (39.81%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (29.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (26.21%) Amazon SQS
7 27 (26.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (25.24%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (22.33%) Route 53
10 22 (21.36%) Azure
11 21 (20.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (18.45%) AWS KMS
12 19 (18.45%) Datadog
12 19 (18.45%) GitHub
13 18 (17.48%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (11.65%) Amazon ELB
14 12 (11.65%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (11.65%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (9.71%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.59%) DNS
2 13 (12.62%) HTTP
3 12 (11.65%) IMAP
3 12 (11.65%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (11.65%) SMTP
4 10 (9.71%) Firewall
4 10 (9.71%) FTP
4 10 (9.71%) SSH
5 3 (2.91%) Internet
5 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.97%) VPN
6 1 (0.97%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (68.93%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (58.25%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (24.27%) DynamoDB
4 23 (22.33%) MySQL
5 14 (13.59%) NoSQL
6 12 (11.65%) Redis
7 11 (10.68%) Relational Database
8 10 (9.71%) SQL Server
9 8 (7.77%) RDBMS
10 7 (6.80%) MariaDB
11 6 (5.83%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (5.83%) BigQuery
11 6 (5.83%) MongoDB
12 5 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (4.85%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (4.85%) Oracle Database
13 4 (3.88%) DocumentDB
14 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (2.91%) Metadata
14 3 (2.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (47.57%) Jenkins
2 42 (40.78%) Git
3 19 (18.45%) SonarQube
4 16 (15.53%) Maven
5 13 (12.62%) JIRA
6 12 (11.65%) Vagrant
7 10 (9.71%) JUnit
8 6 (5.83%) Cypress.io
8 6 (5.83%) Gradle
8 6 (5.83%) Mockito
9 5 (4.85%) SonarLint
10 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (3.88%) DbUnit
10 4 (3.88%) jMock
11 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.94%) Storybook
11 2 (1.94%) webpack
12 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.97%) Gatling
12 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 31 (30.10%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.56%) Finance
4 10 (9.71%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Banking
7 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Legal
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (28.16%) Developer
2 20 (19.42%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (17.48%) Java Developer
4 17 (16.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (14.56%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (13.59%) Lead
6 14 (13.59%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (13.59%) Senior
7 13 (12.62%) Architect
7 13 (12.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 13 (12.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (10.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (9.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) DBA
10 7 (6.80%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.83%) Java Architect
11 6 (5.83%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (5.83%) Technical Architect
12 5 (4.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.33%) Spring Boot
2 21 (20.39%) RESTful
2 21 (20.39%) Spring
3 17 (16.50%) React
4 15 (14.56%) Node.js
4 15 (14.56%) REST
5 14 (13.59%) AWS CDK
6 13 (12.62%) Kafka
7 12 (11.65%) LDAP
8 11 (10.68%) Hibernate
8 11 (10.68%) JPA
9 10 (9.71%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (9.71%) SOAP
10 9 (8.74%) .NET
10 9 (8.74%) AngularJS
11 8 (7.77%) Web Services
12 7 (6.80%) CSS
12 7 (6.80%) HTML
12 7 (6.80%) OAuth
12 7 (6.80%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.39%) Replication
2 19 (18.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.85%) Clustering
4 5 (4.85%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.85%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.97%) NHS
7 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.36%) Linux
2 12 (11.65%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (11.65%) VMS
3 11 (10.68%) Ubuntu
3 11 (10.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.97%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.97%) Unix
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (54.37%) DevOps
2 48 (46.60%) CI/CD
3 41 (39.81%) Agile
4 35 (33.98%) Microservices
5 26 (25.24%) Containerisation
5 26 (25.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (22.33%) TDD
7 21 (20.39%) Performance Tuning
8 19 (18.45%) Change Management
9 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (16.50%) Configuration Management
10 17 (16.50%) Software Engineering
11 16 (15.53%) Cloud Security
12 15 (14.56%) Roadmaps
12 15 (14.56%) Scrum
13 14 (13.59%) Mentoring
13 14 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (12.62%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (12.62%) Observability
14 13 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.63%) Python
2 39 (37.86%) SQL
3 33 (32.04%) Java
4 18 (17.48%) TypeScript
5 15 (14.56%) Groovy
6 14 (13.59%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.74%) JavaScript
8 8 (7.77%) Bash
9 6 (5.83%) Go
10 5 (4.85%) C#
11 3 (2.91%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.94%) Ruby
12 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.97%) PHP
13 1 (0.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.53%) AWS Certification
4 12 (11.65%) Degree
5 10 (9.71%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.97%) OCP
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.59%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.88%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.88%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (51.46%) Docker
2 16 (15.53%) Postfix
3 12 (11.65%) Dovecot
3 12 (11.65%) Squid
4 10 (9.71%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (53.40%) Terraform
2 30 (29.13%) Grafana
3 28 (27.18%) Kubernetes
4 25 (24.27%) Prometheus
5 12 (11.65%) Nessus
6 10 (9.71%) Proxmox
7 9 (8.74%) Ansible
8 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.91%) Puppet
8 3 (2.91%) Rancher
9 1 (0.97%) linkerd
9 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (15.53%) Jaspersoft
2 15 (14.56%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.77%) Oracle
4 5 (4.85%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.85%) Gigya
4 5 (4.85%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.88%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.91%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.97%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.97%) Google
7 1 (0.97%) Informatica
7 1 (0.97%) Pega
7 1 (0.97%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.97%) Sage
7 1 (0.97%) SAP
7 1 (0.97%) Talend