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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 449 481
Rank change year-on-year -83 +32 +135
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 76 83 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.15% 1.46% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 57 99
10th Percentile £443 £450 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £484
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.97% +1.04%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £590
90th Percentile £680 £700 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £496 £480
% change year-on-year +10.89% +3.33% +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 6,595 5,690 7,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.22% 18.64% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,544 3,814 5,150
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £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 124 93 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.98
25th Percentile £28.93 £25.09 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.75 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.66% -10.33% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.63 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.78 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +83.33% -25.00% -28.48%

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 23 February 2026.

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 23 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 -74 58 £600 -11.11% 14
London -39 38 £605 -10.37% 5
UK excluding London -70 29 £550 +10.89% 12
Work from Home -20 22 £538 +7.93% 9
Midlands -45 10 £475 +13.10% 5
West Midlands -48 10 £475 +13.10% 5
Scotland -5 5 £525 +6.92%
South West -19 5 £606 +0.87% 1
North West -27 5 £600 - 1
North of England -48 5 £600 - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 5
East of England -29 1 - -
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 7 (9.21%) Confluence
2 4 (5.26%) Apache
3 3 (3.95%) nginx
4 2 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.32%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 74 (97.37%) AWS
2 44 (57.89%) Amazon S3
3 38 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 38 (50.00%) Serverless
4 28 (36.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (31.58%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (27.63%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (27.63%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (21.05%) GitHub
8 16 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (19.74%) Amazon MSK
9 15 (19.74%) Route 53
10 13 (17.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (14.47%) AWS KMS
12 11 (14.47%) Azure
13 9 (11.84%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (11.84%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (11.84%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.84%) DNS
2 4 (5.26%) HTTP
3 3 (3.95%) Firewall
3 3 (3.95%) FTP
3 3 (3.95%) IMAP
3 3 (3.95%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (3.95%) SMTP
3 3 (3.95%) SSH
4 1 (1.32%) Internet
4 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.32%) VPN
4 1 (1.32%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (60.53%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (51.32%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (38.16%) DynamoDB
4 24 (31.58%) MySQL
5 12 (15.79%) Relational Database
6 11 (14.47%) NoSQL
7 10 (13.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (13.16%) MongoDB
8 9 (11.84%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (11.84%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (10.53%) DocumentDB
9 8 (10.53%) Redis
10 6 (7.89%) DB2
10 6 (7.89%) OLTP
11 5 (6.58%) Data Vault
11 5 (6.58%) Flink
11 5 (6.58%) Star Schema
12 4 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
12 4 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (34.21%) Jenkins
2 19 (25.00%) Git
3 9 (11.84%) JUnit
4 8 (10.53%) Maven
5 7 (9.21%) GitLab
5 7 (9.21%) Mockito
5 7 (9.21%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.89%) DbUnit
6 6 (7.89%) JIRA
6 6 (7.89%) jMock
7 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (5.26%) NUnit
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (3.95%) Vagrant
9 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.32%) Gatling
9 1 (1.32%) Gradle
General
1 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Finance
3 12 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Banking
5 4 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Architect
2 16 (21.05%) Developer
3 14 (18.42%) Senior
4 12 (15.79%) Data Architect
5 11 (14.47%) Java Developer
6 10 (13.16%) AWS Architect
7 9 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (11.84%) Lead
8 8 (10.53%) DBA
8 8 (10.53%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) AWS Data Architect
10 5 (6.58%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Java Architect
11 4 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
12 3 (3.95%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (30.26%) Kafka
2 20 (26.32%) REST
3 19 (25.00%) Spring
4 18 (23.68%) Spring Boot
5 15 (19.74%) Node.js
6 13 (17.11%) .NET
6 13 (17.11%) JPA
7 12 (15.79%) OAuth
8 11 (14.47%) Hibernate
8 11 (14.47%) RESTful
8 11 (14.47%) Spring Cloud
9 9 (11.84%) .NET Core
9 9 (11.84%) OAuth2
9 9 (11.84%) React
10 8 (10.53%) AngularJS
10 8 (10.53%) AWS CDK
10 8 (10.53%) Web Services
11 7 (9.21%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (9.21%) SOAP
11 7 (9.21%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 14 (18.42%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (15.79%) Replication
4 5 (6.58%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (5.26%) Mainframe
5 4 (5.26%) PACS
5 4 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.63%) Clustering
7 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.63%) VSAM
8 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.32%) DataPower
8 1 (1.32%) NHS
8 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Linux
2 5 (6.58%) Windows
3 4 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 4 (5.26%) zOS
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (3.95%) VMS
5 1 (1.32%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (60.53%) DevOps
2 42 (55.26%) CI/CD
3 28 (36.84%) Microservices
4 23 (30.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (30.26%) Observability
5 22 (28.95%) Containerisation
5 22 (28.95%) Event-Driven
6 21 (27.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 21 (27.63%) Performance Tuning
7 18 (23.68%) Agile
7 18 (23.68%) Data Modelling
8 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (19.74%) Analytics
10 14 (18.42%) Roadmaps
11 13 (17.11%) Migration
12 12 (15.79%) Data Protection
12 12 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
13 11 (14.47%) TDD
14 10 (13.16%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) SQL
2 25 (32.89%) Python
3 19 (25.00%) Java
4 9 (11.84%) C#
5 6 (7.89%) Groovy
5 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.58%) Bash
7 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.63%) COBOL
9 2 (2.63%) PHP
10 1 (1.32%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.32%) Go
10 1 (1.32%) JCL
10 1 (1.32%) REXX
10 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.89%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.26%) Degree
5 4 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.32%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.32%) OCP
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) QA
2 6 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.58%) ISO 20022
4 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.26%) NIST
4 4 (5.26%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (44.74%) Docker
2 8 (10.53%) Postfix
3 4 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.95%) DFS Replication
4 3 (3.95%) Dovecot
4 3 (3.95%) Squid
5 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (44.74%) Terraform
2 21 (27.63%) Grafana
3 9 (11.84%) Kubernetes
4 8 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.89%) Ansible
6 4 (5.26%) Data Guard
7 3 (3.95%) Nessus
7 3 (3.95%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.95%) Rancher
8 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.32%) Puppet
8 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (9.21%) Atlassian
3 6 (7.89%) Oracle
3 6 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.26%) Confluent
4 4 (5.26%) IBM
5 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.32%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.32%) Percona
6 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.32%) Virgin Media