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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 446 491
Rank change year-on-year -100 +45 +65
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 78 79 97
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.10% 1.43% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 55 85
10th Percentile £413 £450 £346
25th Percentile £453 £484 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £483
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +24.22% +0.84%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £685 £700 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £578 £500 £484
% change year-on-year +15.60% +3.31% +1.04%

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 7,087 5,512 7,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.94% 18.97% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,866 3,832 5,158
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 102 165
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.14
25th Percentile £30.26 £24.38 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.23 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.26% -19.44% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £56.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.11 £38.50
% change year-on-year +66.09% -21.81% -30.00%

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 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

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 28 March 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 -108 63 £603 -7.23% 16
London -55 38 £605 -10.37% 7
UK excluding London -94 30 £578 +15.60% 14
Work from Home -39 23 £550 +6.23% 14
West Midlands -52 10 £475 +13.10% 1
Midlands -70 10 £475 +13.10% 1
North of England -61 7 £550 -8.33% 2
North West -34 5 £650 +8.33% 2
South West -22 4 £606 -6.77% 2
Scotland -10 3 - - 1
East of England -29 3 - - 2
South East - 2 £525 - 5
North East - 2 £425 -
Wales - 1 £500 - 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 4 (5.13%) Apache
1 4 (5.13%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.28%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 76 (97.44%) AWS
2 41 (52.56%) Amazon S3
3 40 (51.28%) Serverless
4 38 (48.72%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (34.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (32.05%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (29.49%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (28.21%) GitHub
8 22 (28.21%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (24.36%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (19.23%) Amazon MSK
11 15 (19.23%) Route 53
12 12 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
13 11 (14.10%) AWS KMS
13 11 (14.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (11.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 9 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.28%) HTTP
2 1 (1.28%) Internet
2 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.28%) VPN
2 1 (1.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (51.28%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (43.59%) DynamoDB
4 22 (28.21%) MySQL
5 15 (19.23%) NoSQL
6 12 (15.38%) Relational Database
7 10 (12.82%) Redis
8 9 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (11.54%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (11.54%) MongoDB
9 8 (10.26%) DocumentDB
10 7 (8.97%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (8.97%) Data Vault
11 6 (7.69%) OLTP
12 5 (6.41%) DB2
12 5 (6.41%) Flink
12 5 (6.41%) Star Schema
13 4 (5.13%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (5.13%) Tableau
14 3 (3.85%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 27 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 20 (25.64%) Git
3 12 (15.38%) JUnit
4 11 (14.10%) Maven
5 10 (12.82%) Mockito
5 10 (12.82%) SonarQube
6 8 (10.26%) DbUnit
6 8 (10.26%) jMock
7 7 (8.97%) GitLab
8 6 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (5.13%) NUnit
9 4 (5.13%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (3.85%) JIRA
11 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
12 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
12 1 (1.28%) Gatling
12 1 (1.28%) Gradle
12 1 (1.28%) Selenium
12 1 (1.28%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Finance
3 13 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.85%) Banking
7 1 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.28%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.28%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.28%) French Language
7 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (28.21%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) Architect
3 16 (20.51%) Senior
4 14 (17.95%) Java Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Data Architect
6 8 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) AWS Architect
7 7 (8.97%) DBA
7 7 (8.97%) Lead
8 6 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (5.13%) Java Architect
10 4 (5.13%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (5.13%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.85%) Mainframe Architect
11 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.05%) Kafka
2 23 (29.49%) REST
3 22 (28.21%) Spring
4 21 (26.92%) Spring Boot
5 16 (20.51%) JPA
6 15 (19.23%) RESTful
7 14 (17.95%) Hibernate
7 14 (17.95%) Spring Cloud
8 12 (15.38%) .NET
8 12 (15.38%) AngularJS
8 12 (15.38%) Node.js
9 11 (14.10%) OAuth
9 11 (14.10%) Web Services
10 10 (12.82%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (12.82%) React
10 10 (12.82%) SOAP
10 10 (12.82%) Spring Batch
10 10 (12.82%) Spring Integration
11 9 (11.54%) AWS CDK
11 9 (11.54%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 17 (21.79%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (12.82%) Replication
4 4 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.13%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.13%) PACS
4 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.56%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.56%) VSAM
7 1 (1.28%) Clustering
7 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.28%) DataPower
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.28%) NHS
7 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.28%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.95%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) zOS
3 2 (2.56%) Unix
3 2 (2.56%) Windows
4 1 (1.28%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 41 (52.56%) DevOps
3 31 (39.74%) Microservices
4 26 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (32.05%) Event-Driven
6 24 (30.77%) Observability
7 23 (29.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 22 (28.21%) Agile
8 22 (28.21%) Containerisation
9 19 (24.36%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (20.51%) Analytics
11 15 (19.23%) Data Modelling
11 15 (19.23%) TDD
12 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (16.67%) Test Automation
14 12 (15.38%) Roadmaps
14 12 (15.38%) Scrum
15 9 (11.54%) Performance Optimisation
15 9 (11.54%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (52.56%) SQL
2 24 (30.77%) Python
3 23 (29.49%) Java
4 10 (12.82%) C#
5 9 (11.54%) Bash
6 7 (8.97%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.41%) Groovy
8 4 (5.13%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.56%) COBOL
9 2 (2.56%) PHP
9 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.56%) Ruby
9 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.28%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.28%) Go
10 1 (1.28%) JCL
10 1 (1.28%) REXX
10 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.28%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.28%) OCP
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.10%) QA
2 6 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.41%) ISO 20022
4 4 (5.13%) NIST
5 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.85%) GDPR
6 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 39 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (8.97%) Postfix
3 4 (5.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (42.31%) Terraform
2 23 (29.49%) Grafana
3 11 (14.10%) Kubernetes
4 9 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.41%) Rancher
6 4 (5.13%) Ansible
6 4 (5.13%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.28%) Puppet
7 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (12.82%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (11.54%) Atlassian
3 8 (10.26%) Oracle
4 5 (6.41%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.13%) Confluent
5 4 (5.13%) IBM
6 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.28%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.28%) Percona
7 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.28%) Virgin Media