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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 449 507
Rank change year-on-year -96 +58 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 128 103 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.32% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 1.77% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 72 39
10th Percentile £416 £413 £423
25th Percentile £500 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.83% -1.50%
75th Percentile £650 £577 £553
90th Percentile £813 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -2.00% +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 8,233 5,833 6,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.23% 17.97% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,500 3,894 4,772
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.30%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 94 86
10th Percentile £15.95 £22.86 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.11 £30.24 £20.19
Median hourly rate £39.50 £39.48 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +18.86% -37.92%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.89% +18.30% -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 8 September 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 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 8 September 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 -101 83 £533 +6.50% 58
London -53 58 £534 -7.17% 49
Work from Home -64 47 £590 +17.98% 20
UK excluding London -128 39 £490 -2.00% 16
Scotland -38 16 £475 -6.86% 5
Midlands -69 9 - -
West Midlands -60 8 - -
North of England -78 6 £538 +7.50% 3
East of England -21 3 £350 - 4
North West -61 3 £650 +30.00% 2
North East - 3 £425 - 1
South West - 3 £585 - 1
South East -72 2 £533 +18.33% 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 13 (10.16%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.81%) Apache Spark
3 9 (7.03%) Confluence
4 4 (3.13%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (45.31%) AWS Lambda
3 56 (43.75%) Serverless
4 45 (35.16%) Amazon S3
4 45 (35.16%) GitHub
5 44 (34.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 37 (28.91%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
8 31 (24.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (21.09%) Amazon EventBridge
9 27 (21.09%) AWS KMS
10 25 (19.53%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (16.41%) AWS Step Functions
11 21 (16.41%) Azure
12 20 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (14.84%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (14.84%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (14.84%) Route 53
14 14 (10.94%) SaaS
15 8 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (1.56%) DNS
2 2 (1.56%) FTP
2 2 (1.56%) HTTP
2 2 (1.56%) IMAP
2 2 (1.56%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (1.56%) SMTP
2 2 (1.56%) SSH
3 1 (0.78%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (64.06%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (57.81%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (32.81%) MySQL
4 38 (29.69%) DynamoDB
5 18 (14.06%) MongoDB
6 16 (12.50%) NoSQL
7 13 (10.16%) Redis
7 13 (10.16%) SQL Server
8 10 (7.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (7.03%) Big Data
10 7 (5.47%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (5.47%) Presto
11 6 (4.69%) MariaDB
12 5 (3.91%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (3.91%) OLTP
13 4 (3.13%) Data Lake
13 4 (3.13%) Data Vault
13 4 (3.13%) Db2
13 4 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 45 (35.16%) Git
3 18 (14.06%) Claude Code
4 12 (9.38%) Maven
5 10 (7.81%) SonarQube
6 9 (7.03%) JIRA
6 9 (7.03%) JUnit
6 9 (7.03%) Mockito
7 7 (5.47%) DbUnit
8 6 (4.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (4.69%) jMock
9 5 (3.91%) GitLab
10 4 (3.13%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.13%) Selenium
11 3 (2.34%) Gradle
11 3 (2.34%) WebDriver
11 3 (2.34%) webpack
12 2 (1.56%) Flyway
12 2 (1.56%) Liquibase
12 2 (1.56%) Vagrant
General
1 40 (31.25%) Public Sector
1 40 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.72%) Finance
4 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.34%) Banking
5 3 (2.34%) Billing
5 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.56%) Local Government
7 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.78%) French Language
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (24.22%) Senior
2 29 (22.66%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (19.53%) DBA
4 23 (17.97%) Developer
5 19 (14.84%) Architect
6 16 (12.50%) Administrator
6 16 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (10.16%) Lambda Engineer
8 12 (9.38%) Data Engineer
9 10 (7.81%) AWS Architect
9 10 (7.81%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (7.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.81%) Java Developer
9 10 (7.81%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 10 (7.81%) Technical Architect
10 8 (6.25%) Scala Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) AWS Developer
11 7 (5.47%) Data Architect
11 7 (5.47%) Lead
11 7 (5.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (50.78%) Terraform
2 32 (25.00%) REST
2 32 (25.00%) RESTful
3 22 (17.19%) Spring
3 22 (17.19%) Spring Boot
4 21 (16.41%) .NET
5 20 (15.63%) AWS CDK
6 16 (12.50%) Node.js
7 13 (10.16%) AngularJS
7 13 (10.16%) React
8 12 (9.38%) CSS
8 12 (9.38%) HTML
8 12 (9.38%) Kafka
9 10 (7.81%) .NET Core
10 9 (7.03%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (7.03%) Flask
10 9 (7.03%) GraphQL
10 9 (7.03%) Hibernate
10 9 (7.03%) SOAP
10 9 (7.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.09%) Replication
2 20 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (14.84%) Cloud Native
3 19 (14.84%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.47%) Hedge funds
5 6 (4.69%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.13%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.34%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.56%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.56%) PACS
8 2 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.78%) Clustering
9 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.78%) PropTech
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.91%) Linux
2 14 (10.94%) Unix
3 9 (7.03%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.34%) Windows
5 2 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.78%) VMS
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (72.66%) CI/CD
2 55 (42.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (40.63%) Microservices
4 43 (33.59%) Agile
5 39 (30.47%) Performance Tuning
6 38 (29.69%) DevOps
7 34 (26.56%) Event-Driven
8 33 (25.78%) Observability
9 29 (22.66%) Data Modelling
10 26 (20.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (19.53%) API Design
11 25 (19.53%) Test Automation
12 24 (18.75%) High Availability
12 24 (18.75%) Technical Debt
13 22 (17.19%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (16.41%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (14.84%) Scrum
15 19 (14.84%) Secrets Management
16 18 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
17 17 (13.28%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 64 (50.00%) SQL
2 44 (34.38%) Python
3 41 (32.03%) Java
4 27 (21.09%) C#
5 22 (17.19%) TypeScript
6 18 (14.06%) JavaScript
7 16 (12.50%) Groovy
8 13 (10.16%) Bash
9 12 (9.38%) PowerShell
10 10 (7.81%) Scala
10 10 (7.81%) Shell Script
11 7 (5.47%) Perl
12 2 (1.56%) Go
12 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 45 (35.16%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.41%) AWS Certification
4 13 (10.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (7.81%) Azure Certification
6 9 (7.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.13%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.56%) GDPR
3 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.78%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (39.06%) Docker
2 7 (5.47%) Postfix
3 4 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.56%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.56%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.56%) Squid
5 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (36.72%) Grafana
2 27 (21.09%) Prometheus
3 18 (14.06%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.03%) Kibana
5 4 (3.13%) Rancher
6 2 (1.56%) Ansible
6 2 (1.56%) linkerd
6 2 (1.56%) Nessus
6 2 (1.56%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.78%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (10.16%) ServiceNow
2 10 (7.81%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (7.03%) Oracle
4 7 (5.47%) Atlassian
4 7 (5.47%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.47%) Splunk
5 4 (3.13%) Databricks
5 4 (3.13%) Informatica
5 4 (3.13%) Talend
6 3 (2.34%) Google
7 2 (1.56%) Confluent
7 2 (1.56%) GoldenSource
7 2 (1.56%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.78%) Foundry
8 1 (0.78%) IBM
8 1 (0.78%) Palantir