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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 448 504
Rank change year-on-year -86 +56 +48
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 75 79 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.06% 1.43% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 55 83
10th Percentile £411 £450 £344
25th Percentile £450 £484 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +25.00% +0.21%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £608
90th Percentile £689 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £578 £500 £484
% change year-on-year +15.60% +3.41% +0.94%

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 7,063 5,540 7,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.91% 18.91% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,856 3,852 5,165
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £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 £760 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £488
% change year-on-year -2.81% +0.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 102 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.04
25th Percentile £31.25 £24.38 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.23 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.26% -19.44% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £55.94
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.11 £39.25
% change year-on-year +66.09% -23.30% -28.64%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -106 61 £603 -7.23% 16
London -57 38 £605 -10.37% 7
UK excluding London -84 28 £578 +15.60% 14
Work from Home -38 21 £550 +6.23% 14
West Midlands -50 10 £475 +13.10% 1
Midlands -62 10 £475 +13.10% 1
North of England -65 5 £550 -8.33% 2
South West -24 4 £606 -6.77% 2
Scotland -4 3 - - 1
East of England -28 3 - - 2
North West -38 3 £650 +8.33% 2
South East - 2 £525 - 5
North East - 2 £425 -
Wales - 1 £500 - 1

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 4 (5.33%) Apache
1 4 (5.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.33%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (97.33%) AWS
2 40 (53.33%) Amazon S3
3 37 (49.33%) Serverless
4 35 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (34.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (30.67%) Amazon SQS
7 21 (28.00%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (28.00%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (26.67%) GitHub
8 20 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (22.67%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (20.00%) Route 53
11 13 (17.33%) Amazon MSK
12 11 (14.67%) AWS KMS
12 11 (14.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
13 10 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (12.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 9 (12.00%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (12.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.33%) VPN
2 1 (1.33%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (64.00%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (52.00%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (42.67%) DynamoDB
4 21 (28.00%) MySQL
5 13 (17.33%) NoSQL
6 12 (16.00%) Relational Database
7 10 (13.33%) Redis
8 9 (12.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (12.00%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (9.33%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (9.33%) Data Vault
9 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
10 6 (8.00%) DocumentDB
10 6 (8.00%) OLTP
11 5 (6.67%) DB2
11 5 (6.67%) Flink
11 5 (6.67%) Star Schema
12 4 (5.33%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (5.33%) Tableau
13 3 (4.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 27 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 20 (26.67%) Git
3 12 (16.00%) JUnit
4 11 (14.67%) Maven
5 10 (13.33%) Mockito
5 10 (13.33%) SonarQube
6 8 (10.67%) DbUnit
6 8 (10.67%) jMock
7 7 (9.33%) GitLab
8 6 (8.00%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (5.33%) NUnit
9 4 (5.33%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (4.00%) JIRA
11 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
12 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
12 1 (1.33%) Gatling
12 1 (1.33%) Gradle
12 1 (1.33%) Selenium
12 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.67%) Finance
3 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.33%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.33%) French Language
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Developer
2 17 (22.67%) Architect
3 15 (20.00%) Senior
4 14 (18.67%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.00%) Data Architect
6 7 (9.33%) AWS Architect
6 7 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) DBA
7 6 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Lead
7 6 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (5.33%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (5.33%) Java Architect
9 4 (5.33%) Oracle DBA
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Mainframe Architect
10 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (30.67%) Kafka
1 23 (30.67%) REST
2 22 (29.33%) Spring
3 21 (28.00%) Spring Boot
4 16 (21.33%) JPA
5 15 (20.00%) RESTful
6 14 (18.67%) Hibernate
6 14 (18.67%) Spring Cloud
7 12 (16.00%) AngularJS
7 12 (16.00%) Node.js
8 11 (14.67%) OAuth
8 11 (14.67%) Web Services
9 10 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (13.33%) React
9 10 (13.33%) SOAP
9 10 (13.33%) Spring Batch
9 10 (13.33%) Spring Integration
10 9 (12.00%) .NET
10 9 (12.00%) OAuth2
11 8 (10.67%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.67%) Cloud Native
1 17 (22.67%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (13.33%) Replication
3 4 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.33%) Mainframe
3 4 (5.33%) PACS
3 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) VSAM
6 1 (1.33%) Clustering
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) DataPower
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) zOS
3 2 (2.67%) Unix
3 2 (2.67%) Windows
4 1 (1.33%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 38 (50.67%) DevOps
3 29 (38.67%) Microservices
4 25 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (30.67%) Event-Driven
5 23 (30.67%) Observability
6 21 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 21 (28.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 20 (26.67%) Agile
8 19 (25.33%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (21.33%) Analytics
10 15 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (17.33%) TDD
11 13 (17.33%) Test Automation
12 12 (16.00%) Scrum
12 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (14.67%) Roadmaps
14 9 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
14 9 (12.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.00%) SQL
2 23 (30.67%) Java
2 23 (30.67%) Python
3 9 (12.00%) Bash
3 9 (12.00%) C#
4 7 (9.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.33%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.67%) Groovy
6 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.67%) COBOL
7 2 (2.67%) PHP
7 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.67%) Ruby
7 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.33%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.33%) Go
8 1 (1.33%) JCL
8 1 (1.33%) REXX
8 1 (1.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.33%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.33%) OCP
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.00%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.67%) ISO 20022
4 4 (5.33%) NIST
5 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.00%) GDPR
6 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 37 (49.33%) Docker
2 7 (9.33%) Postfix
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 30 (40.00%) Terraform
2 23 (30.67%) Grafana
3 11 (14.67%) Kubernetes
4 9 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.67%) Rancher
6 4 (5.33%) Data Guard
7 3 (4.00%) Ansible
8 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.33%) Puppet
8 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (12.00%) Atlassian
3 8 (10.67%) Oracle
4 5 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.33%) Confluent
5 4 (5.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.33%) Percona
6 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.33%) Virgin Media