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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 427 521
Rank change year-on-year -100 +94 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 107 92 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.31% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.40% 1.66% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 68 62
10th Percentile £440 £434 £343
25th Percentile £500 £469 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% +15.79% -0.84%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £569
90th Percentile £860 £700 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.25% +5.26% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 7,631 5,527 7,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.20% 18.66% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,093 3,753 5,323
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £755 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 102 153
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -12.53% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.33 £65.90 £54.13
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.29% -9.60% -38.54%

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 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Aurora.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Aurora

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 16 June 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 -99 75 £582 -3.04% 13
UK excluding London -106 44 £516 +3.25% 7
London -73 42 £582 -8.39% 7
Work from Home -37 36 £575 +14.98% 8
Midlands -55 18 £475 - 1
West Midlands -57 17 £475 - 1
Scotland -22 8 £473 -5.50%
South West -23 6 £606 -6.77% 1
North of England -68 6 £538 +7.50% 2
East of England -28 3 £350 -36.36% 2
North West -40 3 £650 +30.00% 1
North East - 3 £425 - 1
South East -58 2 £533 +18.33% 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 11 (10.28%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.41%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (5.61%) Confluence
4 2 (1.87%) Apache
4 2 (1.87%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 105 (98.13%) AWS
2 56 (52.34%) AWS Lambda
3 55 (51.40%) Amazon S3
4 54 (50.47%) Serverless
5 42 (39.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 41 (38.32%) GitHub
7 39 (36.45%) Amazon SQS
8 33 (30.84%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (28.97%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (28.04%) Route 53
11 23 (21.50%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (21.50%) Amazon EventBridge
12 22 (20.56%) AWS KMS
13 21 (19.63%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (19.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (14.95%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (14.02%) Azure
16 13 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (11.21%) Amazon MSK
18 10 (9.35%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) DNS
2 3 (2.80%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (64.49%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (61.68%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (45.79%) DynamoDB
4 29 (27.10%) MySQL
5 19 (17.76%) NoSQL
6 12 (11.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (11.21%) MongoDB
7 9 (8.41%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (8.41%) Big Data
7 9 (8.41%) Data Vault
8 8 (7.48%) Redis
9 7 (6.54%) Flink
9 7 (6.54%) OLTP
9 7 (6.54%) Presto
9 7 (6.54%) Star Schema
10 6 (5.61%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (5.61%) Apache Iceberg
10 6 (5.61%) Tableau
11 5 (4.67%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (4.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 55 (51.40%) Jenkins
2 40 (37.38%) Git
3 18 (16.82%) JUnit
3 18 (16.82%) Maven
3 18 (16.82%) Mockito
3 18 (16.82%) SonarQube
4 14 (13.08%) DbUnit
5 13 (12.15%) jMock
6 11 (10.28%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (9.35%) Claude Code
8 8 (7.48%) GitLab
9 6 (5.61%) JIRA
10 4 (3.74%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.74%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (3.74%) Selenium
11 3 (2.80%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.93%) NUnit
General
1 27 (25.23%) Public Sector
2 19 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.15%) Finance
4 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.87%) Local Government
6 1 (0.93%) Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Dutch Language
6 1 (0.93%) French Language
6 1 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (28.04%) Developer
2 22 (20.56%) Architect
3 20 (18.69%) Senior
4 19 (17.76%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (17.76%) Java Developer
5 16 (14.95%) AWS Architect
6 12 (11.21%) DBA
7 10 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Data Architect
8 8 (7.48%) Data Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Scala Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Technical Architect
9 7 (6.54%) AWS Developer
9 7 (6.54%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (6.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Python Developer
9 7 (6.54%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.54%) SQL Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Lead
10 6 (5.61%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (31.78%) REST
1 34 (31.78%) RESTful
2 25 (23.36%) Spring
2 25 (23.36%) Spring Boot
3 23 (21.50%) JPA
4 22 (20.56%) Hibernate
5 20 (18.69%) Kafka
5 20 (18.69%) Spring Cloud
6 19 (17.76%) AngularJS
7 18 (16.82%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (16.82%) SOAP
7 18 (16.82%) Spring Batch
7 18 (16.82%) Spring Integration
7 18 (16.82%) Web Services
8 16 (14.95%) Node.js
9 14 (13.08%) .NET
10 13 (12.15%) PowerMock
11 11 (10.28%) AWS CDK
11 11 (10.28%) Bootstrap
12 9 (8.41%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.30%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (15.89%) Cloud Native
3 15 (14.02%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.41%) Replication
5 7 (6.54%) Hedge funds
6 6 (5.61%) PACS
6 6 (5.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.80%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.87%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.93%) PropTech
10 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.93%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 38 (35.51%) Linux
2 14 (13.08%) Unix
3 4 (3.74%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.87%) zOS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (66.36%) CI/CD
2 54 (50.47%) Microservices
3 37 (34.58%) Agile
3 37 (34.58%) DevOps
4 34 (31.78%) Event-Driven
4 34 (31.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (24.30%) Observability
5 26 (24.30%) Performance Tuning
6 25 (23.36%) Scrum
7 22 (20.56%) Containerisation
7 22 (20.56%) Test Automation
8 21 (19.63%) Kanban
9 20 (18.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 20 (18.69%) TDD
9 20 (18.69%) Technical Debt
10 18 (16.82%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (15.89%) API Design
11 17 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (14.95%) Analytics
12 16 (14.95%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 59 (55.14%) SQL
2 41 (38.32%) Java
3 35 (32.71%) Python
4 21 (19.63%) C#
5 14 (13.08%) JavaScript
5 14 (13.08%) TypeScript
6 11 (10.28%) Scala
7 8 (7.48%) Bash
7 8 (7.48%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.54%) Groovy
8 7 (6.54%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.67%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.74%) Perl
11 2 (1.87%) Go
11 2 (1.87%) Ruby
12 1 (0.93%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 41 (38.32%) Security Cleared
2 32 (29.91%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.21%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.48%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) QA
2 6 (5.61%) ISO 20022
2 6 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.61%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.74%) NIST
4 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 51 (47.66%) Docker
2 11 (10.28%) Postfix
3 4 (3.74%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (44.86%) Grafana
2 46 (42.99%) Terraform
3 23 (21.50%) Prometheus
4 19 (17.76%) Kubernetes
5 8 (7.48%) Kibana
6 4 (3.74%) Data Guard
7 3 (2.80%) Rancher
8 2 (1.87%) Ansible
8 2 (1.87%) linkerd
9 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 17 (15.89%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (13.08%) Atlassian
3 12 (11.21%) Oracle
4 7 (6.54%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.54%) Splunk
5 6 (5.61%) Confluent
5 6 (5.61%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.87%) IBM
6 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.93%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media