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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 446 495
Rank change year-on-year -106 +49 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 130 114 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.35% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.60% 1.91% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 82 46
10th Percentile £416 £413 £438
25th Percentile £500 £453 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +1.21% -2.37%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £572
90th Percentile £788 £650 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -1.04%
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 8,104 5,956 6,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.83% 18.15% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,392 3,978 4,565
10th Percentile £352 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £484
% change year-on-year - -1.76% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 85 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.71 £38.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +10.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £64.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £33.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.11% +12.93% -42.86%

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 6 October 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 15 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 6 October 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 -104 84 £533 +6.50% 89
London -67 64 £533 -7.39% 64
Work from Home -69 53 £581 +16.28% 38
UK excluding London -142 31 £475 -5.00% 34
Scotland -40 13 £483 -5.39% 4
Midlands -54 9 £404 -15.05% 1
West Midlands -62 6 - - 1
South West -33 3 £585 +30.00% 2
North of England -82 3 £425 -24.44% 4
South East -56 2 £533 +18.33% 15
East Midlands - 2 £404 -
East of England -25 1 £350 - 6
Yorkshire -36 1 £400 +6.67% 1
North West -58 1 £650 +13.04% 2
North East - 1 £425 - 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 12 (9.23%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.46%) Confluence
3 10 (7.69%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.31%) nginx
5 1 (0.77%) Apache
5 1 (0.77%) Appian
5 1 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 130 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (44.62%) AWS Lambda
3 54 (41.54%) Serverless
4 49 (37.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 47 (36.15%) Amazon S3
6 41 (31.54%) GitHub
7 34 (26.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 31 (23.85%) Amazon SQS
9 30 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (21.54%) AWS KMS
11 25 (19.23%) Amazon EventBridge
12 23 (17.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (17.69%) AWS Step Functions
13 22 (16.92%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (16.15%) Azure
15 19 (14.62%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (14.62%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (13.08%) Route 53
17 16 (12.31%) SaaS
18 10 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.92%) Firewall
2 2 (1.54%) DNS
2 2 (1.54%) FTP
2 2 (1.54%) HTTP
2 2 (1.54%) IMAP
2 2 (1.54%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (1.54%) SMTP
2 2 (1.54%) SSH
3 1 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.77%) Network Security
3 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (66.92%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (61.54%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (33.08%) MySQL
4 34 (26.15%) DynamoDB
5 21 (16.15%) MongoDB
6 16 (12.31%) SQL Server
7 15 (11.54%) Redis
8 10 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (7.69%) NoSQL
9 8 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (6.15%) Big Data
10 7 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (5.38%) Presto
11 6 (4.62%) Data Lake
12 5 (3.85%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (3.85%) OLTP
12 5 (3.85%) Relational Database
13 4 (3.08%) Db2
13 4 (3.08%) MariaDB
13 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (40.77%) Jenkins
2 44 (33.85%) Git
3 19 (14.62%) Claude Code
4 12 (9.23%) JIRA
5 11 (8.46%) Maven
6 8 (6.15%) GitLab
6 8 (6.15%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.38%) JUnit
7 7 (5.38%) Mockito
8 5 (3.85%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.08%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (3.08%) Gradle
9 4 (3.08%) jMock
10 3 (2.31%) webpack
11 2 (1.54%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.54%) Flyway
11 2 (1.54%) Liquibase
11 2 (1.54%) Selenium
11 2 (1.54%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
General
1 49 (37.69%) Social Skills
2 40 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 17 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (13.08%) Finance
4 7 (5.38%) Banking
5 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Billing
7 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.54%) Local Government
7 2 (1.54%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.77%) Advertising
8 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.77%) Aviation
8 1 (0.77%) Back Office
8 1 (0.77%) German Language
8 1 (0.77%) Marketing
8 1 (0.77%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (24.62%) Senior
2 31 (23.85%) AWS Engineer
2 31 (23.85%) DBA
3 22 (16.92%) Architect
4 20 (15.38%) Administrator
5 16 (12.31%) Developer
5 16 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (10.77%) Lambda Engineer
7 13 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 13 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 12 (9.23%) AWS Architect
9 11 (8.46%) Technical Architect
10 10 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (6.92%) Java Developer
12 8 (6.15%) AWS Administrator
12 8 (6.15%) Lead
12 8 (6.15%) Scala Engineer
12 8 (6.15%) Senior DBA
13 7 (5.38%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (55.38%) Terraform
2 32 (24.62%) REST
3 28 (21.54%) RESTful
4 21 (16.15%) AWS CDK
4 21 (16.15%) Spring
4 21 (16.15%) Spring Boot
5 20 (15.38%) .NET
6 16 (12.31%) Node.js
7 14 (10.77%) Kafka
8 12 (9.23%) CSS
8 12 (9.23%) HTML
9 11 (8.46%) AngularJS
9 11 (8.46%) React
10 10 (7.69%) .NET Core
11 9 (6.92%) GraphQL
12 8 (6.15%) Hibernate
12 8 (6.15%) JPA
12 8 (6.15%) Play Framework
12 8 (6.15%) Web Services
13 7 (5.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.15%) Replication
2 19 (14.62%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (14.62%) Product Ownership
3 16 (12.31%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.62%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.85%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.08%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.08%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.54%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.54%) PACS
8 2 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.77%) Derivative
9 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.77%) Linux
2 10 (7.69%) Unix
3 9 (6.92%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (3.08%) Windows
5 2 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.77%) VMS
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (74.62%) CI/CD
2 61 (46.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (36.92%) Microservices
4 45 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
5 43 (33.08%) Agile
6 40 (30.77%) DevOps
7 39 (30.00%) Observability
8 35 (26.92%) Event-Driven
9 33 (25.38%) Data Modelling
10 31 (23.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (21.54%) Disaster Recovery
12 26 (20.00%) API Design
12 26 (20.00%) Test Automation
13 25 (19.23%) High Availability
14 23 (17.69%) Root Cause Analysis
14 23 (17.69%) Secrets Management
14 23 (17.69%) Technical Debt
14 23 (17.69%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (13.85%) Data Integration
16 17 (13.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 61 (46.92%) SQL
2 39 (30.00%) Java
2 39 (30.00%) Python
3 23 (17.69%) C#
4 20 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.08%) JavaScript
6 16 (12.31%) Groovy
7 11 (8.46%) Bash
8 10 (7.69%) Scala
9 9 (6.92%) PowerShell
10 7 (5.38%) Perl
10 7 (5.38%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.77%) Go
Qualifications
1 54 (41.54%) Security Cleared
2 50 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 25 (19.23%) AWS Certification
4 14 (10.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (7.69%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.08%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.54%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) SEPA
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (34.62%) Docker
2 5 (3.85%) Postfix
3 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.54%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.54%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.54%) Squid
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (36.15%) Grafana
2 27 (20.77%) Prometheus
3 20 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.92%) Kibana
5 4 (3.08%) Rancher
6 2 (1.54%) Nessus
6 2 (1.54%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.77%) Ansible
7 1 (0.77%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.77%) linkerd
7 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (10.77%) ServiceNow
2 8 (6.15%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (6.15%) Splunk
3 7 (5.38%) Dynatrace
4 5 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.85%) Oracle
5 4 (3.08%) Databricks
5 4 (3.08%) Informatica
5 4 (3.08%) Talend
6 3 (2.31%) Google
7 2 (1.54%) Confluent
7 2 (1.54%) GoldenSource
7 2 (1.54%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.54%) Teradata
8 1 (0.77%) Foundry
8 1 (0.77%) IBM
8 1 (0.77%) Palantir
8 1 (0.77%) Percona
8 1 (0.77%) Sparx