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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 444 485
Rank change year-on-year -61 +41 +122
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 88 81 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.40% 1.41% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 56 92
10th Percentile £419 £450 £401
25th Percentile £466 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £688 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £495 £480
% change year-on-year +8.51% +3.02% -1.84%

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 6,295 5,728 7,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.54% 18.42% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,329 3,766 5,146
10th Percentile £335 £355 £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 £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 85 180
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.86
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £35.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +30.71% -17.35% -28.23%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.52% -28.38% -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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -48 66 £600 -11.11% 10
London -16 43 £600 -11.11% 4
UK excluding London -54 41 £537 +8.51% 7
Work from Home -30 28 £529 +7.10% 4
North of England -42 13 £575 -4.17% 2
North West -18 12 £575 -4.17% 1
Scotland -4 10 £510 +5.05% 1
West Midlands -26 8 £475 -
Midlands -46 8 £475 -
South West -16 5 £606 +0.93% 1
East of England -14 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 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 10 (11.36%) Confluence
2 9 (10.23%) nginx
3 3 (3.41%) Apache
4 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.14%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (60.23%) Serverless
3 52 (59.09%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (53.41%) Amazon S3
5 31 (35.23%) Amazon ECS
6 29 (32.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 25 (28.41%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (26.14%) GitHub
10 21 (23.86%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (21.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (20.45%) Route 53
12 18 (20.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (19.32%) Azure
14 16 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
14 16 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (17.05%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (14.77%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (14.77%) Datadog
17 11 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.91%) DNS
2 9 (10.23%) HTTP
3 8 (9.09%) Firewall
3 8 (9.09%) FTP
3 8 (9.09%) IMAP
3 8 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
3 8 (9.09%) SMTP
3 8 (9.09%) SSH
4 1 (1.14%) Internet
4 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.14%) VPN
4 1 (1.14%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (68.18%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (52.27%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (31.82%) DynamoDB
3 28 (31.82%) MySQL
4 19 (21.59%) NoSQL
5 17 (19.32%) Relational Database
6 14 (15.91%) Redis
7 10 (11.36%) MongoDB
8 9 (10.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (10.23%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (9.09%) DocumentDB
9 8 (9.09%) RDBMS
10 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
11 5 (5.68%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (5.68%) BigQuery
11 5 (5.68%) DB2
11 5 (5.68%) OLTP
12 4 (4.55%) Data Vault
12 4 (4.55%) Flink
Development Applications
1 34 (38.64%) Jenkins
2 25 (28.41%) Git
3 9 (10.23%) JIRA
4 8 (9.09%) Vagrant
5 6 (6.82%) GitLab
5 6 (6.82%) Gradle
5 6 (6.82%) Maven
5 6 (6.82%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.68%) SonarLint
7 4 (4.55%) NUnit
7 4 (4.55%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (3.41%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.27%) JUnit
10 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.14%) Gatling
10 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 35 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.77%) Finance
4 8 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Banking
7 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) Architect
2 17 (19.32%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Developer
4 13 (14.77%) Senior
5 12 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (12.50%) Data Architect
7 10 (11.36%) Java Architect
7 10 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (10.23%) AWS Architect
8 9 (10.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (10.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) Software Engineer
10 7 (7.95%) DBA
10 7 (7.95%) Lead
11 6 (6.82%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 6 (6.82%) Java Developer
11 6 (6.82%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (6.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.27%) Kafka
2 18 (20.45%) Spring Boot
3 15 (17.05%) REST
4 14 (15.91%) OAuth
4 14 (15.91%) RESTful
4 14 (15.91%) Spring
5 13 (14.77%) .NET
5 13 (14.77%) AWS CDK
6 11 (12.50%) JWT
6 11 (12.50%) OAuth2
6 11 (12.50%) React
7 9 (10.23%) .NET Core
7 9 (10.23%) Node.js
8 8 (9.09%) LDAP
9 5 (5.68%) Dropwizard
9 5 (5.68%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (5.68%) J2EE
9 5 (5.68%) JPA
9 5 (5.68%) Micronaut
10 4 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 17 (19.32%) Replication
3 8 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.82%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.68%) N-Tier
5 5 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.55%) PACS
6 4 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.41%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.27%) Clustering
9 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.14%) DataPower
9 1 (1.14%) NHS
9 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.14%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Linux
2 10 (11.36%) Windows
3 9 (10.23%) Ubuntu
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (9.09%) VMS
5 3 (3.41%) zOS
6 1 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.14%) Unix
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (56.82%) CI/CD
1 50 (56.82%) DevOps
2 30 (34.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (32.95%) Microservices
4 26 (29.55%) Event-Driven
5 25 (28.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 25 (28.41%) Observability
6 23 (26.14%) Agile
6 23 (26.14%) Containerisation
7 22 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
8 21 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (21.59%) Data Modelling
9 19 (21.59%) Roadmaps
10 16 (18.18%) Change Management
11 15 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (14.77%) Analytics
12 13 (14.77%) Cloud Security
13 12 (13.64%) Design Patterns
13 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
13 12 (13.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (47.73%) Python
2 40 (45.45%) SQL
3 20 (22.73%) Java
4 12 (13.64%) Groovy
5 10 (11.36%) C#
5 10 (11.36%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.23%) TypeScript
7 8 (9.09%) Bash
8 6 (6.82%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.55%) Go
9 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.27%) PHP
10 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.27%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.14%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.14%) COBOL
11 1 (1.14%) JCL
11 1 (1.14%) REXX
11 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 13 (14.77%) SC Cleared
4 10 (11.36%) Degree
5 8 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.14%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (1.14%) OCP
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 9 (10.23%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.68%) ISO 20022
4 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.55%) NIST
4 4 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.14%) GDPR
5 1 (1.14%) SLA
5 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (52.27%) Docker
2 8 (9.09%) DFS Replication
2 8 (9.09%) Dovecot
2 8 (9.09%) Postfix
2 8 (9.09%) Squid
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (54.55%) Terraform
2 23 (26.14%) Grafana
2 23 (26.14%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.05%) Prometheus
4 8 (9.09%) Nessus
4 8 (9.09%) Proxmox
5 7 (7.95%) Ansible
6 4 (4.55%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.55%) Rancher
7 1 (1.14%) linkerd
7 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.14%) Puppet
7 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 8 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (6.82%) Oracle
4 5 (5.68%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.68%) Gigya
5 4 (4.55%) Confluent
5 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.41%) IBM
7 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.14%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.14%) Percona
7 1 (1.14%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.14%) SAP