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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 429 488
Rank change year-on-year -109 +59 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 95 80 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.31% 1.44% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 59 73
10th Percentile £446 £435 £360
25th Percentile £490 £473 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +26.32% -0.84%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £553
90th Percentile £855 £700 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +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 7,250 5,548 7,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 19.00% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,894 3,807 5,237
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 98 148
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.59 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -15.49% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.81 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.55% -20.90% -29.08%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -86 69 £606 -4.57% 18
London -48 44 £612 -3.70% 8
UK excluding London -108 36 £495 -1.00% 8
Work from Home -46 29 £582 +13.96% 9
West Midlands -51 14 £475 +12.43% 2
Midlands -57 14 £475 +12.43% 2
Scotland -17 8 £473 -5.50%
North of England -64 6 £538 +7.50% 2
South West -23 4 £606 -6.77%
North West -39 3 £650 +30.00% 1
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East of England -28 2 - -
South East -62 1 £740 +64.44% 4
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 (11.58%) Apache Spark
2 9 (9.47%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.32%) Confluence
4 2 (2.11%) Apache
4 2 (2.11%) nginx
5 1 (1.05%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 93 (97.89%) AWS
2 54 (56.84%) Amazon S3
3 48 (50.53%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (48.42%) Serverless
5 34 (35.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 34 (35.79%) Amazon SQS
6 32 (33.68%) GitHub
6 32 (33.68%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (30.53%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (23.16%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 19 (20.00%) AWS KMS
9 19 (20.00%) Route 53
10 15 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (13.68%) Amazon MSK
11 13 (13.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (11.58%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (11.58%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) DNS
2 3 (3.16%) Firewall
3 1 (1.05%) HTTP
3 1 (1.05%) Internet
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (56.84%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (52.63%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (44.21%) DynamoDB
4 28 (29.47%) MySQL
5 18 (18.95%) NoSQL
6 13 (13.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (12.63%) MongoDB
8 9 (9.47%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (9.47%) Big Data
8 9 (9.47%) Data Vault
9 8 (8.42%) OLTP
10 7 (7.37%) Flink
10 7 (7.37%) Presto
10 7 (7.37%) Redis
10 7 (7.37%) Star Schema
11 6 (6.32%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (6.32%) Apache Iceberg
11 6 (6.32%) Relational Database
11 6 (6.32%) Tableau
12 5 (5.26%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 44 (46.32%) Jenkins
2 33 (34.74%) Git
3 15 (15.79%) JUnit
4 14 (14.74%) Maven
4 14 (14.74%) Mockito
4 14 (14.74%) SonarQube
5 11 (11.58%) DbUnit
5 11 (11.58%) jMock
6 9 (9.47%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (9.47%) GitLab
7 7 (7.37%) Claude Code
8 6 (6.32%) JIRA
9 4 (4.21%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.21%) NUnit
9 4 (4.21%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (4.21%) Selenium
10 3 (3.16%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (22.11%) Public Sector
2 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.63%) Finance
5 3 (3.16%) Banking
5 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.11%) Local Government
6 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.05%) French Language
7 1 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) Developer
2 19 (20.00%) Senior
3 17 (17.89%) Architect
4 16 (16.84%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (15.79%) Java Developer
6 10 (10.53%) Data Architect
6 10 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) AWS Architect
7 8 (8.42%) DBA
7 8 (8.42%) Scala Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) AWS Developer
8 7 (7.37%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Python Developer
8 7 (7.37%) SQL Developer
9 6 (6.32%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (6.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Lead
10 5 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.21%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (31.58%) REST
2 25 (26.32%) RESTful
3 22 (23.16%) Kafka
3 22 (23.16%) Spring
3 22 (23.16%) Spring Boot
4 19 (20.00%) JPA
5 18 (18.95%) Hibernate
5 18 (18.95%) Spring Cloud
6 15 (15.79%) AngularJS
6 15 (15.79%) Web Services
7 14 (14.74%) .NET
7 14 (14.74%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (14.74%) SOAP
7 14 (14.74%) Spring Batch
7 14 (14.74%) Spring Integration
8 13 (13.68%) Node.js
9 11 (11.58%) AWS CDK
9 11 (11.58%) PowerMock
10 9 (9.47%) .NET Core
10 9 (9.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 13 (13.68%) Product Ownership
4 9 (9.47%) Replication
5 7 (7.37%) Hedge funds
6 6 (6.32%) PACS
6 6 (6.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (4.21%) Mainframe
8 4 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.11%) VSAM
10 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.05%) Clustering
10 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.05%) DataPower
10 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (36.84%) Linux
2 14 (14.74%) Unix
3 4 (4.21%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (4.21%) zOS
4 2 (2.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (65.26%) CI/CD
2 44 (46.32%) Microservices
3 39 (41.05%) DevOps
4 36 (37.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (35.79%) Event-Driven
6 32 (33.68%) Agile
7 27 (28.42%) Observability
8 24 (25.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 23 (24.21%) Containerisation
10 22 (23.16%) Performance Tuning
10 22 (23.16%) Scrum
11 21 (22.11%) Test Automation
12 19 (20.00%) Analytics
13 17 (17.89%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (17.89%) Kanban
14 16 (16.84%) Data Modelling
14 16 (16.84%) TDD
15 15 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 13 (13.68%) BDD
16 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 53 (55.79%) SQL
2 38 (40.00%) Java
3 34 (35.79%) Python
4 21 (22.11%) C#
5 15 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.58%) Scala
7 8 (8.42%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.37%) Bash
8 7 (7.37%) Groovy
8 7 (7.37%) Shell Script
9 6 (6.32%) TypeScript
10 4 (4.21%) Perl
10 4 (4.21%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.16%) Go
12 2 (2.11%) COBOL
12 2 (2.11%) Ruby
13 1 (1.05%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.05%) JCL
13 1 (1.05%) PHP
13 1 (1.05%) REXX
Qualifications
1 31 (32.63%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.63%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.37%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.05%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) QA
2 7 (7.37%) ISO 20022
3 6 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.32%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.21%) NIST
5 3 (3.16%) GDPR
6 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 51 (53.68%) Docker
2 10 (10.53%) Postfix
3 4 (4.21%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (49.47%) Terraform
2 41 (43.16%) Grafana
3 17 (17.89%) Prometheus
4 12 (12.63%) Kubernetes
5 8 (8.42%) Kibana
6 4 (4.21%) Data Guard
7 3 (3.16%) Ansible
7 3 (3.16%) Rancher
8 2 (2.11%) linkerd
9 1 (1.05%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (14.74%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (11.58%) Atlassian
2 11 (11.58%) Oracle
3 7 (7.37%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.37%) Splunk
4 6 (6.32%) Confluent
5 4 (4.21%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.21%) IBM
6 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.05%) Percona
7 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.05%) Virgin Media