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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 466 512
Rank change year-on-year -7 +46 +148
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 104 81 114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.66% 1.26% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 51 95
10th Percentile £400 £438 £413
25th Percentile £450 £460 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £496 £506
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -1.98% +1.20%
75th Percentile £550 £589 £611
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £490
% change year-on-year +4.71% -2.55% -2.00%

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 6,282 6,439 7,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 17.60% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,271 4,295 5,496
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 86 155
10th Percentile £20.73 £17.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.44 £24.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -36.00% -4.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.56 £69.38
90th Percentile £83.60 £65.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.75 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +39.17% -35.95% +4.83%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +8 67 £503 -16.25% 54
UK excluding London -6 60 £500 +4.71% 42
Work from Home +4 46 £500 +1.21% 57
London +17 40 £513 -9.29% 20
Scotland +1 21 £510 +7.37%
Midlands - 21 £475 -
West Midlands - 21 £475 -
North of England -19 14 £575 - 20
North West -6 13 £575 - 15
South East - 2 £355 - 16
South West -3 1 £450 -25.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 5
East of England - 1 - - 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 14 (13.46%) Confluence
2 13 (12.50%) nginx
3 3 (2.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (52.88%) Amazon S3
3 47 (45.19%) Serverless
4 46 (44.23%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (39.42%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (29.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (27.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (26.92%) Amazon SQS
9 25 (24.04%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (22.12%) Route 53
11 22 (21.15%) Azure
11 22 (21.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (19.23%) Datadog
13 19 (18.27%) AWS KMS
13 19 (18.27%) GitHub
14 17 (16.35%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (11.54%) Amazon ELB
15 12 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (9.62%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.46%) DNS
2 13 (12.50%) HTTP
3 12 (11.54%) IMAP
3 12 (11.54%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (11.54%) SMTP
4 10 (9.62%) Firewall
4 10 (9.62%) FTP
4 10 (9.62%) SSH
5 3 (2.88%) Internet
5 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.96%) VPN
6 1 (0.96%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (70.19%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (57.69%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 24 (23.08%) MySQL
4 13 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 12 (11.54%) Redis
6 11 (10.58%) Relational Database
6 11 (10.58%) SQL Server
7 8 (7.69%) MariaDB
7 8 (7.69%) RDBMS
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (5.77%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.77%) Oracle Database
9 5 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.81%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (3.85%) DocumentDB
11 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.88%) Metadata
12 2 (1.92%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 50 (48.08%) Jenkins
2 42 (40.38%) Git
3 19 (18.27%) SonarQube
4 16 (15.38%) Maven
5 13 (12.50%) JIRA
6 12 (11.54%) Vagrant
7 10 (9.62%) JUnit
8 6 (5.77%) Cypress.io
8 6 (5.77%) Gradle
8 6 (5.77%) Mockito
9 5 (4.81%) SonarLint
10 4 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (3.85%) DbUnit
10 4 (3.85%) jMock
11 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.92%) Storybook
11 2 (1.92%) webpack
12 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.96%) Gatling
12 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 32 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.42%) Finance
4 10 (9.62%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.96%) Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (28.85%) Developer
2 20 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (17.31%) Java Developer
4 17 (16.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (14.42%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (13.46%) Senior
7 13 (12.50%) Architect
7 13 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 13 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 13 (12.50%) Lead
8 11 (10.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (9.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.69%) DBA
11 7 (6.73%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.77%) Java Architect
12 6 (5.77%) Java Technical Architect
12 6 (5.77%) Technical Architect
12 6 (5.77%) Technical Leader
13 5 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.12%) Spring Boot
2 21 (20.19%) RESTful
2 21 (20.19%) Spring
3 16 (15.38%) React
4 15 (14.42%) AWS CDK
4 15 (14.42%) REST
5 14 (13.46%) Node.js
6 13 (12.50%) Kafka
7 12 (11.54%) LDAP
8 11 (10.58%) Hibernate
8 11 (10.58%) JPA
9 10 (9.62%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (9.62%) SOAP
10 9 (8.65%) .NET
10 9 (8.65%) AngularJS
11 8 (7.69%) Web Services
12 7 (6.73%) CSS
12 7 (6.73%) HTML
12 7 (6.73%) OAuth
12 7 (6.73%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.15%) Replication
2 19 (18.27%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.77%) Clustering
3 6 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.81%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) NHS
7 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.15%) Linux
2 12 (11.54%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (11.54%) VMS
3 11 (10.58%) Ubuntu
3 11 (10.58%) Windows
4 1 (0.96%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.96%) Unix
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (54.81%) DevOps
2 50 (48.08%) CI/CD
3 41 (39.42%) Agile
4 35 (33.65%) Microservices
5 28 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 23 (22.12%) TDD
8 22 (21.15%) Performance Tuning
9 19 (18.27%) Change Management
10 17 (16.35%) Configuration Management
10 17 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (15.38%) Cloud Security
11 16 (15.38%) Roadmaps
11 16 (15.38%) Software Engineering
12 15 (14.42%) Scrum
13 14 (13.46%) Mentoring
13 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (12.50%) Migration
14 13 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.19%) Python
2 38 (36.54%) SQL
3 34 (32.69%) Java
4 18 (17.31%) TypeScript
5 15 (14.42%) Groovy
6 14 (13.46%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.65%) JavaScript
8 8 (7.69%) Bash
9 6 (5.77%) Go
10 5 (4.81%) C#
11 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.92%) Ruby
12 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.96%) PHP
13 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (29.81%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.96%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 12 (11.54%) Degree
5 10 (9.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.96%) OCP
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.81%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.85%) QA
4 2 (1.92%) WCAG
5 1 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (50.96%) Docker
2 16 (15.38%) Postfix
3 12 (11.54%) Dovecot
3 12 (11.54%) Squid
4 10 (9.62%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (53.85%) Terraform
2 31 (29.81%) Grafana
3 28 (26.92%) Kubernetes
4 25 (24.04%) Prometheus
5 12 (11.54%) Nessus
6 10 (9.62%) Proxmox
7 9 (8.65%) Ansible
8 3 (2.88%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.88%) Puppet
8 3 (2.88%) Rancher
9 1 (0.96%) linkerd
9 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Jaspersoft
2 15 (14.42%) ServiceNow
3 9 (8.65%) Oracle
4 5 (4.81%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.81%) Gigya
4 5 (4.81%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.85%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.96%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.96%) Google
7 1 (0.96%) Informatica
7 1 (0.96%) Pega
7 1 (0.96%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.96%) Sage
7 1 (0.96%) SAP
7 1 (0.96%) Talend