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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 479 509
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 +124
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 99 78 114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.58% 1.23% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 48 94
10th Percentile £403 £446 £417
25th Percentile £458 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -3.38% +3.50%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,279 6,320 7,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 17.53% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,292 4,186 5,455
10th Percentile £333 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% - -3.64%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 84 150
10th Percentile £21.02 £17.65 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £22.69
Median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -36.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £66.06 £48.32 £69.69
90th Percentile £83.08 £64.92 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.91% -40.45% +13.38%

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 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Top 13 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 18 November 2025. 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 -15 64 £509 -15.21% 17
UK excluding London +4 55 £500 +4.17% 11
Work from Home -1 40 £506 +2.48% 12
London +11 38 £513 -9.29% 8
Scotland +1 19 £515 +8.71%
West Midlands - 18 £475 -
Midlands - 18 £475 -
North of England -24 14 £575 - 5
North West -9 13 £575 - 3
East of England - 2 - - 2
South West -3 1 £450 -25.00%
South East - 1 £310 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 2

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 14 (14.14%) Confluence
2 13 (13.13%) nginx
3 4 (4.04%) Apache
4 2 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (12.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.02%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (51.52%) Amazon S3
3 46 (46.46%) Serverless
4 45 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (38.38%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (30.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (26.26%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (25.25%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (23.23%) Route 53
11 22 (22.22%) Azure
12 21 (21.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (19.19%) AWS KMS
13 19 (19.19%) Datadog
14 18 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (18.18%) GitHub
15 12 (12.12%) Amazon ELB
15 12 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (10.10%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.14%) DNS
2 13 (13.13%) HTTP
3 12 (12.12%) IMAP
3 12 (12.12%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (12.12%) SMTP
4 10 (10.10%) Firewall
4 10 (10.10%) FTP
4 10 (10.10%) SSH
5 3 (3.03%) Internet
5 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.01%) VPN
6 1 (1.01%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (69.70%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (57.58%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (25.25%) DynamoDB
4 21 (21.21%) MySQL
5 15 (15.15%) NoSQL
6 12 (12.12%) Redis
6 12 (12.12%) Relational Database
7 11 (11.11%) SQL Server
8 8 (8.08%) RDBMS
9 7 (7.07%) MongoDB
10 6 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (6.06%) BigQuery
10 6 (6.06%) MariaDB
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (5.05%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (5.05%) Oracle Database
12 4 (4.04%) DocumentDB
13 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (3.03%) Metadata
13 3 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 39 (39.39%) Git
3 17 (17.17%) SonarQube
4 13 (13.13%) JIRA
4 13 (13.13%) Maven
5 12 (12.12%) Vagrant
6 8 (8.08%) JUnit
7 7 (7.07%) Cypress.io
8 6 (6.06%) Gradle
9 5 (5.05%) SonarLint
10 4 (4.04%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (4.04%) DbUnit
10 4 (4.04%) jMock
10 4 (4.04%) Mockito
11 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.02%) Storybook
12 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.01%) Gatling
12 1 (1.01%) WebDriver
12 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 39 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.15%) Finance
4 10 (10.10%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.01%) Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (25.25%) Developer
2 20 (20.20%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (17.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (15.15%) Java Developer
5 14 (14.14%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (14.14%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (14.14%) Senior
6 13 (13.13%) Architect
6 13 (13.13%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 13 (13.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (13.13%) Lead
7 11 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (10.10%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) DBA
9 7 (7.07%) Software Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Technical Leader
10 6 (6.06%) Java Architect
10 6 (6.06%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (6.06%) Technical Architect
11 5 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.21%) RESTful
2 20 (20.20%) Spring Boot
3 18 (18.18%) Spring
4 17 (17.17%) React
5 14 (14.14%) AWS CDK
6 13 (13.13%) Kafka
6 13 (13.13%) Node.js
7 12 (12.12%) LDAP
7 12 (12.12%) REST
8 11 (11.11%) Hibernate
9 10 (10.10%) .NET
10 9 (9.09%) JPA
11 8 (8.08%) OAuth
12 7 (7.07%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (7.07%) SOAP
12 7 (7.07%) Spring Batch
12 7 (7.07%) Spring Integration
12 7 (7.07%) Web Services
13 6 (6.06%) CSS
13 6 (6.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.21%) Replication
2 19 (19.19%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.05%) Clustering
3 5 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.05%) N-Tier
3 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.02%) NHS
6 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.22%) Linux
2 12 (12.12%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (12.12%) VMS
3 11 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 11 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (1.01%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.01%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (54.55%) DevOps
2 46 (46.46%) CI/CD
3 38 (38.38%) Agile
4 31 (31.31%) Microservices
5 26 (26.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (24.24%) Containerisation
7 21 (21.21%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (20.20%) TDD
9 19 (19.19%) Change Management
10 17 (17.17%) Configuration Management
10 17 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (17.17%) Software Engineering
11 16 (16.16%) Cloud Security
12 15 (15.15%) Roadmaps
13 14 (14.14%) Mentoring
14 13 (13.13%) Migration
14 13 (13.13%) Observability
14 13 (13.13%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (13.13%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (12.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 47 (47.47%) Python
2 40 (40.40%) SQL
3 29 (29.29%) Java
4 18 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 15 (15.15%) Groovy
6 14 (14.14%) PowerShell
7 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 7 (7.07%) Bash
9 6 (6.06%) C#
9 6 (6.06%) Go
10 2 (2.02%) Ruby
10 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.01%) PHP
11 1 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.16%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.12%) Degree
5 10 (10.10%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.01%) OCP
7 1 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.04%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.04%) QA
3 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.01%) SLA
3 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (50.51%) Docker
2 16 (16.16%) Postfix
3 12 (12.12%) Dovecot
3 12 (12.12%) Squid
4 10 (10.10%) DFS Replication
5 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (54.55%) Terraform
2 28 (28.28%) Grafana
2 28 (28.28%) Kubernetes
3 23 (23.23%) Prometheus
4 12 (12.12%) Nessus
5 10 (10.10%) Proxmox
6 9 (9.09%) Ansible
7 3 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.03%) Puppet
7 3 (3.03%) Rancher
8 1 (1.01%) linkerd
8 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (16.16%) Jaspersoft
2 15 (15.15%) ServiceNow
3 8 (8.08%) Oracle
4 5 (5.05%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.05%) Gigya
4 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.04%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.01%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.01%) Google
7 1 (1.01%) Informatica
7 1 (1.01%) Pega
7 1 (1.01%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.01%) Sage
7 1 (1.01%) SAP
7 1 (1.01%) Talend