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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 444 495
Rank change year-on-year -68 +51 +105
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 80 85 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.22% 1.51% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 59 97
10th Percentile £420 £450 £408
25th Percentile £461 £475 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £565 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +17.71% +0.21%
75th Percentile £619 £688 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £496 £478
% change year-on-year +8.87% +3.87% -0.31%

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 6,569 5,640 7,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.34% 18.51% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,508 3,755 5,174
10th Percentile £339 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £423 £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 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 90 177
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £16.07
25th Percentile £28.86 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.06% -9.87% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £63.00
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.38 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.60 £30.00 £41.38
% change year-on-year +78.67% -27.49% -26.02%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -75 58 £603 -10.67% 13
London -33 39 £625 -7.41% 4
UK excluding London -77 32 £540 +8.87% 12
Work from Home -42 25 £525 +5.42% 9
Scotland -8 9 £525 +6.92%
West Midlands -43 8 £475 +13.10% 6
Midlands -50 8 £475 +13.10% 6
North of England -55 6 £575 -4.17% 1
South West -22 5 £606 +0.87%
North West -24 5 £600 - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 5
East of England -24 1 - -
Wales - 1 £500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -

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 8 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) Apache
2 4 (5.00%) nginx
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Superset
4 1 (1.25%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 78 (97.50%) AWS
2 46 (57.50%) Amazon S3
3 44 (55.00%) AWS Lambda
3 44 (55.00%) Serverless
4 26 (32.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 21 (26.25%) Amazon ECS
5 21 (26.25%) Amazon EKS
5 21 (26.25%) Amazon SQS
6 19 (23.75%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (21.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (20.00%) GitHub
8 16 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (18.75%) Amazon MSK
10 13 (16.25%) Route 53
10 13 (16.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (12.50%) AWS KMS
11 10 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
11 10 (12.50%) Azure
12 9 (11.25%) Amazon EventBridge
12 9 (11.25%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) DNS
2 5 (6.25%) HTTP
3 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 4 (5.00%) FTP
3 4 (5.00%) IMAP
3 4 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (5.00%) SMTP
3 4 (5.00%) SSH
4 1 (1.25%) Internet
4 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.25%) VPN
4 1 (1.25%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (48.75%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (32.50%) DynamoDB
4 24 (30.00%) MySQL
5 12 (15.00%) Relational Database
6 11 (13.75%) NoSQL
7 10 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (12.50%) MongoDB
8 9 (11.25%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (11.25%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (10.00%) DocumentDB
9 8 (10.00%) Redis
10 6 (7.50%) DB2
10 6 (7.50%) OLTP
11 5 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (6.25%) Data Vault
11 5 (6.25%) Flink
11 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
11 5 (6.25%) Star Schema
12 4 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 18 (22.50%) Git
3 7 (8.75%) GitLab
3 7 (8.75%) JIRA
4 6 (7.50%) JUnit
5 5 (6.25%) Maven
6 4 (5.00%) Mockito
6 4 (5.00%) NUnit
6 4 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.00%) Vagrant
7 3 (3.75%) DbUnit
7 3 (3.75%) jMock
8 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.25%) Gatling
9 1 (1.25%) Gradle
General
1 27 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.25%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Banking
5 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Architect
2 18 (22.50%) Developer
3 14 (17.50%) Senior
4 12 (15.00%) Data Architect
5 10 (12.50%) AWS Architect
5 10 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Java Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Lead
7 8 (10.00%) DBA
7 8 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) AWS Data Architect
9 5 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Java Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.75%) Kafka
2 18 (22.50%) REST
3 17 (21.25%) Spring
4 16 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 13 (16.25%) .NET
5 13 (16.25%) OAuth
6 12 (15.00%) AWS CDK
6 12 (15.00%) Node.js
7 10 (12.50%) JPA
7 10 (12.50%) OAuth2
7 10 (12.50%) React
8 9 (11.25%) .NET Core
9 8 (10.00%) Hibernate
9 8 (10.00%) RESTful
9 8 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (7.50%) JWT
11 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.25%) Web Services
12 4 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (16.25%) Replication
3 11 (13.75%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.00%) Mainframe
5 4 (5.00%) PACS
5 4 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Clustering
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.50%) VSAM
8 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.25%) DataPower
8 1 (1.25%) NHS
8 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Linux
2 6 (7.50%) Windows
3 5 (6.25%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (5.00%) VMS
4 4 (5.00%) zOS
5 1 (1.25%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (58.75%) DevOps
2 43 (53.75%) CI/CD
3 27 (33.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (32.50%) Microservices
5 24 (30.00%) Observability
6 22 (27.50%) Event-Driven
7 21 (26.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 20 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
9 19 (23.75%) Agile
9 19 (23.75%) Containerisation
9 19 (23.75%) Data Modelling
10 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (18.75%) Analytics
12 14 (17.50%) Roadmaps
13 13 (16.25%) Migration
14 12 (15.00%) Data Protection
14 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
15 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 10 (12.50%) Data Architecture
16 10 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.00%) SQL
2 30 (37.50%) Python
3 17 (21.25%) Java
4 10 (12.50%) C#
5 8 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.75%) Groovy
7 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.25%) Bash
9 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
9 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.50%) COBOL
10 2 (2.50%) PHP
11 1 (1.25%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.25%) Go
11 1 (1.25%) JCL
11 1 (1.25%) REXX
11 1 (1.25%) Scala
11 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.25%) Degree
6 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.25%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (1.25%) OCP
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) QA
2 7 (8.75%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.25%) ISO 20022
4 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.00%) NIST
4 4 (5.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (45.00%) Docker
2 7 (8.75%) Postfix
3 4 (5.00%) DFS Replication
3 4 (5.00%) Dovecot
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (5.00%) Squid
4 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (45.00%) Terraform
2 22 (27.50%) Grafana
3 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
4 9 (11.25%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.50%) Ansible
6 4 (5.00%) Data Guard
6 4 (5.00%) Nessus
6 4 (5.00%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.75%) Rancher
8 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.25%) Puppet
8 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (8.75%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle
4 4 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.00%) Confluent
4 4 (5.00%) IBM
5 3 (3.75%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.25%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.25%) Percona
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.25%) Virgin Media