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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 474 492
Rank change year-on-year -21 +18 +151
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 94 80 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.47% 1.31% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 49 87
10th Percentile £400 £450 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% +2.10% +2.25%
75th Percentile £586 £688 £598
90th Percentile £651 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £491 £500
% change year-on-year +5.40% -1.80% +2.25%

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 6,374 6,113 7,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.18% 18.04% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,395 4,033 5,115
10th Percentile £325 £341 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £765 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 86 141
10th Percentile £20.75 £18.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.54 £23.24
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.50% -33.59% -11.63%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.88 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.43 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.78% -40.61% -6.71%

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 25 December 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 25 December 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 -20 65 £550 -13.78% 10
London +1 45 £516 -23.52% 5
UK excluding London -31 43 £518 +5.40% 6
Work from Home -12 34 £525 +6.28% 6
Scotland -3 14 £500 +4.17%
North of England -40 14 £575 - 2
North West -19 13 £575 - 2
Midlands - 10 £475 -
West Midlands - 10 £475 -
East of England -20 2 - - 2
South East - 2 £525 - 2
South West -15 1 £450 -25.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -

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 12 (12.77%) Confluence
2 11 (11.70%) nginx
3 3 (3.19%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.06%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (58.51%) Serverless
3 54 (57.45%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (52.13%) Amazon S3
5 30 (31.91%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (30.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (30.85%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (25.53%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (25.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (22.34%) Azure
8 21 (22.34%) GitHub
9 19 (20.21%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (19.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (17.02%) Datadog
11 16 (17.02%) Route 53
12 14 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (13.83%) AWS Fargate
13 13 (13.83%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (12.77%) AWS KMS
15 11 (11.70%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.96%) DNS
2 14 (14.89%) HTTP
3 10 (10.64%) Firewall
3 10 (10.64%) FTP
3 10 (10.64%) IMAP
3 10 (10.64%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (10.64%) SMTP
3 10 (10.64%) SSH
4 4 (4.26%) Internet
4 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (1.06%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (60.64%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (23.40%) MySQL
4 21 (22.34%) DynamoDB
5 17 (18.09%) Relational Database
6 15 (15.96%) NoSQL
7 12 (12.77%) Redis
8 8 (8.51%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (8.51%) RDBMS
8 8 (8.51%) SQL Server
9 7 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (7.45%) Apache Iceberg
10 6 (6.38%) MongoDB
11 5 (5.32%) BigQuery
12 4 (4.26%) DB2
12 4 (4.26%) DocumentDB
13 3 (3.19%) MariaDB
13 3 (3.19%) OLTP
13 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
13 3 (3.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (37.23%) Jenkins
2 27 (28.72%) Git
3 11 (11.70%) JIRA
4 10 (10.64%) Vagrant
5 6 (6.38%) Gradle
5 6 (6.38%) Maven
5 6 (6.38%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.32%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.32%) SonarLint
7 4 (4.26%) NUnit
8 2 (2.13%) GitLab
8 2 (2.13%) JUnit
9 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.06%) Gatling
9 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 39 (41.49%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.28%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.96%) Finance
4 10 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (22.34%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (19.15%) Senior
3 17 (18.09%) Architect
3 17 (18.09%) Developer
3 17 (18.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (9.57%) Lead
9 8 (8.51%) Data Architect
9 8 (8.51%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) Java Architect
10 6 (6.38%) Java Developer
10 6 (6.38%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (6.38%) Technical Architect
11 5 (5.32%) DBA
11 5 (5.32%) Software Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.21%) Kafka
2 16 (17.02%) AWS CDK
3 15 (15.96%) React
4 14 (14.89%) .NET
4 14 (14.89%) RESTful
4 14 (14.89%) Spring Boot
5 12 (12.77%) Node.js
6 11 (11.70%) JWT
6 11 (11.70%) OAuth
6 11 (11.70%) REST
7 10 (10.64%) LDAP
7 10 (10.64%) Spring
8 9 (9.57%) .NET Core
9 8 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (8.51%) OAuth2
10 5 (5.32%) Dropwizard
10 5 (5.32%) J2EE
10 5 (5.32%) Micronaut
11 4 (4.26%) CSS
11 4 (4.26%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.47%) Cloud Native
2 21 (22.34%) Replication
3 6 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.32%) N-Tier
4 5 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.26%) Clustering
5 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.13%) NHS
6 2 (2.13%) PACS
6 2 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.06%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.02%) Linux
2 12 (12.77%) Windows
3 11 (11.70%) Ubuntu
4 10 (10.64%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (10.64%) VMS
5 2 (2.13%) zOS
6 1 (1.06%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (58.51%) DevOps
2 50 (53.19%) CI/CD
3 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.66%) Agile
4 26 (27.66%) Containerisation
4 26 (27.66%) Microservices
5 22 (23.40%) Performance Tuning
6 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (21.28%) Event-Driven
7 20 (21.28%) Observability
8 19 (20.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 18 (19.15%) Change Management
10 16 (17.02%) Configuration Management
10 16 (17.02%) Data Modelling
10 16 (17.02%) Roadmaps
11 14 (14.89%) Cloud Security
11 14 (14.89%) Migration
11 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.83%) AI
12 13 (13.83%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) Python
2 33 (35.11%) SQL
3 17 (18.09%) Java
4 14 (14.89%) Groovy
4 14 (14.89%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.77%) PowerShell
6 10 (10.64%) C#
7 8 (8.51%) Bash
7 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.32%) Go
9 2 (2.13%) PHP
9 2 (2.13%) Ruby
9 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.06%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.06%) COBOL
10 1 (1.06%) JCL
10 1 (1.06%) REXX
10 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (22.34%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 17 (18.09%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.77%) Degree
5 10 (10.64%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.06%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.06%) OCP
7 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.45%) QA
3 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.19%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.06%) GDPR
5 1 (1.06%) SLA
5 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (50.00%) Docker
2 10 (10.64%) DFS Replication
2 10 (10.64%) Dovecot
2 10 (10.64%) Postfix
2 10 (10.64%) Squid
3 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (59.57%) Terraform
2 29 (30.85%) Grafana
3 23 (24.47%) Kubernetes
4 20 (21.28%) Prometheus
5 10 (10.64%) Ansible
5 10 (10.64%) Nessus
5 10 (10.64%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.26%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.26%) Puppet
6 4 (4.26%) Rancher
7 1 (1.06%) linkerd
7 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) ServiceNow
2 10 (10.64%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (5.32%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.32%) Gigya
4 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.26%) Oracle
4 4 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.13%) Confluent
5 2 (2.13%) IBM
6 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.06%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.06%) Pega
6 1 (1.06%) Percona
6 1 (1.06%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.06%) Sage
6 1 (1.06%) SAP