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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 451 490
Rank change year-on-year -76 +39 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 88 67 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.22% 1.19% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 47 83
10th Percentile £418 £450 £344
25th Percentile £456 £487 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £635 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +33.68% -0.84%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £575
90th Percentile £659 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% +0.21%
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 7,225 5,630 7,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.61% 19.12% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,927 3,887 5,130
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.28%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £650
90th Percentile £697 £763 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -2.56% +1.56% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 108 146
10th Percentile £16.97 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.10 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.51% -13.56% -34.69%
75th Percentile £74.13 £65.62 £54.78
90th Percentile £82.65 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -33.33%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -90 70 £581 -9.51% 10
London -57 42 £581 -13.87% 5
UK excluding London -86 37 £525 +5.00% 8
Work from Home -30 25 £569 -5.21% 8
West Midlands -52 14 £475 +13.10%
Midlands -57 14 £475 +13.10%
North of England -57 7 £550 -
Scotland -4 6 £463 -7.50% 2
South West -27 4 £606 -6.77%
North West -45 4 £650 +18.18%
East of England -30 3 - - 2
North East - 3 £425 -
South East - 2 £525 - 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 10 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.68%) Confluence
4 3 (3.41%) Apache
5 2 (2.27%) nginx
6 1 (1.14%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 86 (97.73%) AWS
2 52 (59.09%) Amazon S3
3 40 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (43.18%) Serverless
5 34 (38.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 28 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
6 28 (31.82%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (28.41%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (23.86%) GitHub
9 21 (23.86%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (21.59%) Route 53
11 18 (20.45%) AWS KMS
12 15 (17.05%) Amazon MSK
13 14 (15.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (14.77%) Amazon EventBridge
15 11 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (11.36%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (11.36%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) DNS
2 2 (2.27%) Firewall
3 1 (1.14%) HTTP
3 1 (1.14%) Internet
3 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (65.91%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (54.55%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (43.18%) DynamoDB
4 21 (23.86%) NoSQL
5 20 (22.73%) MySQL
6 15 (17.05%) MongoDB
7 13 (14.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (10.23%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (10.23%) Big Data
8 9 (10.23%) Data Vault
8 9 (10.23%) Redis
9 8 (9.09%) OLTP
9 8 (9.09%) Relational Database
10 7 (7.95%) Flink
10 7 (7.95%) Presto
10 7 (7.95%) Star Schema
11 6 (6.82%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (6.82%) Apache Iceberg
11 6 (6.82%) DocumentDB
11 6 (6.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (51.14%) Jenkins
2 27 (30.68%) Git
3 15 (17.05%) JUnit
3 15 (17.05%) Maven
4 14 (15.91%) Mockito
4 14 (15.91%) SonarQube
5 11 (12.50%) DbUnit
5 11 (12.50%) jMock
6 9 (10.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (10.23%) GitLab
7 5 (5.68%) JIRA
8 4 (4.55%) NUnit
8 4 (4.55%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (3.41%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.27%) Selenium
10 2 (2.27%) WebDriver
11 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.14%) Gatling
11 1 (1.14%) Gradle
General
1 19 (21.59%) Public Sector
2 18 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.50%) Finance
5 3 (3.41%) Banking
5 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.27%) Local Government
6 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.14%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.14%) French Language
Job Titles
1 26 (29.55%) Developer
2 17 (19.32%) Architect
2 17 (19.32%) Java Developer
2 17 (19.32%) Senior
3 11 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) Data Architect
5 8 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 8 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) DBA
6 7 (7.95%) Lead
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Java Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Oracle DBA
9 4 (4.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.55%) REST
2 24 (27.27%) Kafka
2 24 (27.27%) Spring
3 23 (26.14%) RESTful
3 23 (26.14%) Spring Boot
4 20 (22.73%) JPA
5 18 (20.45%) Hibernate
5 18 (20.45%) Spring Cloud
6 15 (17.05%) AngularJS
6 15 (17.05%) Web Services
7 14 (15.91%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (15.91%) SOAP
7 14 (15.91%) Spring Batch
7 14 (15.91%) Spring Integration
8 12 (13.64%) Node.js
9 11 (12.50%) PowerMock
10 10 (11.36%) OAuth
11 9 (10.23%) .NET
11 9 (10.23%) Bootstrap
11 9 (10.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.86%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.50%) Replication
4 8 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.82%) PACS
5 6 (6.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (4.55%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.55%) Mainframe
6 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.27%) VSAM
8 1 (1.14%) Clustering
8 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.14%) DataPower
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.09%) Linux
2 11 (12.50%) Unix
3 4 (4.55%) zOS
4 3 (3.41%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (61.36%) CI/CD
2 43 (48.86%) DevOps
3 35 (39.77%) Agile
3 35 (39.77%) Microservices
4 32 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (29.55%) Event-Driven
6 25 (28.41%) Containerisation
7 24 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 22 (25.00%) Observability
8 22 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 21 (23.86%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (23.86%) Scrum
10 18 (20.45%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (19.32%) Analytics
11 17 (19.32%) Kanban
11 17 (19.32%) TDD
12 16 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (15.91%) Data Modelling
15 13 (14.77%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (61.36%) SQL
2 37 (42.05%) Java
3 34 (38.64%) Python
4 14 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 11 (12.50%) C#
5 11 (12.50%) Scala
6 10 (11.36%) Bash
7 8 (9.09%) Groovy
8 7 (7.95%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.68%) TypeScript
10 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
10 4 (4.55%) Shell Script
11 3 (3.41%) Go
11 3 (3.41%) Perl
12 2 (2.27%) COBOL
12 2 (2.27%) Ruby
13 1 (1.14%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.14%) JCL
13 1 (1.14%) PHP
13 1 (1.14%) REXX
Qualifications
1 32 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.14%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) OCP
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) QA
2 7 (7.95%) ISO 20022
3 6 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.82%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.55%) NIST
5 3 (3.41%) GDPR
6 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 53 (60.23%) Docker
2 10 (11.36%) Postfix
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (50.00%) Terraform
2 42 (47.73%) Grafana
3 18 (20.45%) Prometheus
4 12 (13.64%) Kubernetes
5 8 (9.09%) Kibana
6 5 (5.68%) Rancher
7 4 (4.55%) Ansible
7 4 (4.55%) Data Guard
8 2 (2.27%) linkerd
9 1 (1.14%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (15.91%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 9 (10.23%) Oracle
4 8 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.95%) Splunk
6 6 (6.82%) Confluent
6 6 (6.82%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.55%) IBM
8 1 (1.14%) GoldenSource
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.14%) Percona
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.14%) Virgin Media