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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 468 494
Rank change year-on-year -30 +26 +139
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 93 82 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.46% 1.35% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 51 87
10th Percentile £400 £450 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +2.25%
75th Percentile £586 £688 £598
90th Percentile £651 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +6.60% -1.50% +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 6,385 6,083 7,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.17% 18.08% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,411 4,023 5,155
10th Percentile £325 £345 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £429
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 £760 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 84 143
10th Percentile £20.73 £18.74 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.66 £22.92
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +58.50% -31.69% -14.08%
75th Percentile £72.00 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.63 £77.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +113.64% -40.45% -7.64%

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 27 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 27 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 -23 65 £550 -13.78% 29
London -5 45 £516 -23.52% 19
UK excluding London -40 42 £525 +6.60% 11
Work from Home -9 34 £525 +6.28% 15
North of England -36 14 £575 -4.17% 3
Scotland -3 13 £502 +4.48%
North West -8 13 £575 -4.17% 3
Midlands - 10 £475 - 2
West Midlands - 10 £475 - 2
East of England -20 2 - - 3
South East - 2 £525 - 4
South West -7 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 (12.90%) Confluence
2 11 (11.83%) nginx
3 3 (3.23%) Apache
4 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.08%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.15%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (58.06%) Serverless
3 53 (56.99%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (51.61%) Amazon S3
5 30 (32.26%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (31.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (31.18%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (25.81%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (24.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (22.58%) Azure
9 21 (22.58%) GitHub
10 19 (20.43%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (19.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (17.20%) Datadog
12 16 (17.20%) Route 53
13 14 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (13.98%) AWS Fargate
14 13 (13.98%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (12.90%) AWS KMS
16 11 (11.83%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.13%) DNS
2 14 (15.05%) HTTP
3 10 (10.75%) Firewall
3 10 (10.75%) FTP
3 10 (10.75%) IMAP
3 10 (10.75%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (10.75%) SMTP
3 10 (10.75%) SSH
4 4 (4.30%) Internet
4 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.08%) VPN
5 1 (1.08%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (60.22%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (50.54%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (23.66%) MySQL
4 21 (22.58%) DynamoDB
5 17 (18.28%) Relational Database
6 15 (16.13%) NoSQL
7 12 (12.90%) Redis
8 8 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (8.60%) RDBMS
8 8 (8.60%) SQL Server
9 7 (7.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (7.53%) Apache Iceberg
10 6 (6.45%) MongoDB
11 5 (5.38%) BigQuery
12 4 (4.30%) DB2
12 4 (4.30%) DocumentDB
13 3 (3.23%) MariaDB
13 3 (3.23%) OLTP
13 3 (3.23%) Oracle Database
13 3 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (37.63%) Jenkins
2 27 (29.03%) Git
3 11 (11.83%) JIRA
4 10 (10.75%) Vagrant
5 6 (6.45%) Gradle
5 6 (6.45%) Maven
5 6 (6.45%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.38%) SonarLint
7 4 (4.30%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.30%) NUnit
8 2 (2.15%) GitLab
8 2 (2.15%) JUnit
9 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.08%) Gatling
9 1 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 38 (40.86%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.43%) Public Sector
3 15 (16.13%) Finance
4 10 (10.75%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Banking
6 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.15%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (22.58%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (19.35%) Senior
3 17 (18.28%) Architect
3 17 (18.28%) Developer
3 17 (18.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.98%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.83%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Data Architect
8 8 (8.60%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Lead
9 6 (6.45%) Java Architect
9 6 (6.45%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Java Technical Architect
9 6 (6.45%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) DBA
10 5 (5.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.43%) Kafka
2 15 (16.13%) AWS CDK
3 14 (15.05%) .NET
3 14 (15.05%) React
3 14 (15.05%) RESTful
3 14 (15.05%) Spring Boot
4 12 (12.90%) Node.js
5 11 (11.83%) JWT
5 11 (11.83%) OAuth
5 11 (11.83%) REST
6 10 (10.75%) LDAP
6 10 (10.75%) Spring
7 9 (9.68%) .NET Core
8 8 (8.60%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (8.60%) OAuth2
9 5 (5.38%) Dropwizard
9 5 (5.38%) J2EE
9 5 (5.38%) Micronaut
10 4 (4.30%) JSON
10 4 (4.30%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.73%) Cloud Native
2 21 (22.58%) Replication
3 6 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.38%) N-Tier
4 5 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.30%) Clustering
5 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.15%) NHS
6 2 (2.15%) PACS
6 2 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.08%) DataPower
7 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.08%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.20%) Linux
2 12 (12.90%) Windows
3 11 (11.83%) Ubuntu
4 10 (10.75%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (10.75%) VMS
5 2 (2.15%) zOS
6 1 (1.08%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.08%) Unix
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (59.14%) DevOps
2 50 (53.76%) CI/CD
3 32 (34.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.96%) Containerisation
4 26 (27.96%) Microservices
5 25 (26.88%) Agile
6 22 (23.66%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (21.51%) Observability
9 19 (20.43%) Event-Driven
10 18 (19.35%) Change Management
10 18 (19.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 16 (17.20%) Configuration Management
11 16 (17.20%) Data Modelling
12 15 (16.13%) Roadmaps
13 14 (15.05%) Cloud Security
13 14 (15.05%) Migration
13 14 (15.05%) Software Engineering
14 13 (13.98%) AI
14 13 (13.98%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 46 (49.46%) Python
2 33 (35.48%) SQL
3 17 (18.28%) Java
4 14 (15.05%) Groovy
5 13 (13.98%) TypeScript
6 12 (12.90%) PowerShell
7 10 (10.75%) C#
8 8 (8.60%) Bash
8 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
9 5 (5.38%) Go
10 2 (2.15%) PHP
10 2 (2.15%) Ruby
10 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.08%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.08%) COBOL
11 1 (1.08%) JCL
11 1 (1.08%) REXX
11 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 17 (18.28%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.90%) Degree
5 10 (10.75%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.08%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.08%) OCP
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.53%) QA
3 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.23%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.08%) GDPR
5 1 (1.08%) SLA
5 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (50.54%) Docker
2 10 (10.75%) DFS Replication
2 10 (10.75%) Dovecot
2 10 (10.75%) Postfix
2 10 (10.75%) Squid
3 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (60.22%) Terraform
2 29 (31.18%) Grafana
3 23 (24.73%) Kubernetes
4 20 (21.51%) Prometheus
5 10 (10.75%) Ansible
5 10 (10.75%) Nessus
5 10 (10.75%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.30%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.30%) Puppet
6 4 (4.30%) Rancher
7 1 (1.08%) linkerd
7 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (15.05%) ServiceNow
2 10 (10.75%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (5.38%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.38%) Gigya
4 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.30%) Oracle
4 4 (4.30%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.15%) Confluent
5 2 (2.15%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.08%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.08%) Pega
6 1 (1.08%) Percona
6 1 (1.08%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.08%) Sage
6 1 (1.08%) SAP