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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 435 507
Rank change year-on-year -119 +72 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 128 106 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.33% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.56% 1.79% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 75 36
10th Percentile £419 £413 £433
25th Percentile £500 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% +1.21% -1.20%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £558
90th Percentile £788 £646 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £478
% change year-on-year -2.00% +4.71% -0.52%
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 8,185 5,929 6,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.00% 18.26% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 3,963 4,661
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.30%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 86 89
10th Percentile £16.63 £21.23 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +14.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £75.10 £83.75 £71.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.81% +20.00% -45.45%

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 22 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 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 22 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 -117 84 £533 +6.50% 62
London -57 59 £533 -7.39% 42
Work from Home -58 48 £582 +16.35% 29
UK excluding London -129 38 £490 -2.00% 26
Scotland -36 15 £475 -5.00% 3
Midlands -61 11 £404 -15.05% 2
West Midlands -62 8 - - 1
North of England -77 4 £650 +30.00% 2
East of England -30 3 £350 - 2
South West -35 3 £585 +30.00% 3
North West -59 3 £650 +20.93% 2
South East -63 2 £533 +18.33% 12
East Midlands - 2 £404 - 1
North East - 1 £425 -

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 12 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.81%) Apache Spark
3 9 (7.03%) Confluence
4 4 (3.13%) nginx
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 46 (35.94%) Amazon S3
5 44 (34.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 44 (34.38%) GitHub
6 34 (26.56%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (25.78%) Amazon SQS
8 31 (24.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (21.09%) AWS KMS
10 26 (20.31%) Amazon EventBridge
11 24 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (17.19%) AWS Step Functions
13 21 (16.41%) Azure
14 20 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (14.84%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (14.84%) Route 53
16 17 (13.28%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (11.72%) SaaS
18 10 (7.81%) Amazon EMR
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 81 (63.28%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (58.59%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (32.81%) MySQL
4 36 (28.13%) DynamoDB
5 18 (14.06%) MongoDB
6 14 (10.94%) NoSQL
7 13 (10.16%) Redis
7 13 (10.16%) SQL Server
8 12 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (6.25%) Big Data
10 7 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (5.47%) Presto
11 6 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (4.69%) Data Lake
12 5 (3.91%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (3.91%) MariaDB
12 5 (3.91%) OLTP
13 4 (3.13%) Data Vault
13 4 (3.13%) Db2
13 4 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (42.97%) Jenkins
2 46 (35.94%) Git
3 19 (14.84%) 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
7 7 (5.47%) GitLab
8 6 (4.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (4.69%) jMock
9 3 (2.34%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.34%) Gradle
9 3 (2.34%) Selenium
9 3 (2.34%) webpack
10 2 (1.56%) Flyway
10 2 (1.56%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.56%) Vagrant
10 2 (1.56%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 40 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.50%) Finance
5 5 (3.91%) Banking
6 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.34%) Billing
7 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Local Government
8 2 (1.56%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Advertising
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (24.22%) AWS Engineer
2 30 (23.44%) Senior
3 26 (20.31%) DBA
4 21 (16.41%) Architect
5 20 (15.63%) Developer
6 17 (13.28%) Administrator
7 16 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (10.94%) Lambda Engineer
9 12 (9.38%) Data Engineer
10 11 (8.59%) AWS Architect
10 11 (8.59%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 10 (7.81%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (7.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (7.81%) Java Developer
11 10 (7.81%) Technical Architect
12 8 (6.25%) Scala Engineer
13 7 (5.47%) AWS Administrator
13 7 (5.47%) Data Architect
13 7 (5.47%) Lead
14 6 (4.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (52.34%) Terraform
2 33 (25.78%) REST
3 31 (24.22%) RESTful
4 22 (17.19%) .NET
4 22 (17.19%) Spring
4 22 (17.19%) Spring Boot
5 21 (16.41%) AWS CDK
6 16 (12.50%) Node.js
7 12 (9.38%) AngularJS
7 12 (9.38%) CSS
7 12 (9.38%) HTML
7 12 (9.38%) Kafka
8 11 (8.59%) React
9 10 (7.81%) .NET Core
10 9 (7.03%) GraphQL
10 9 (7.03%) Hibernate
10 9 (7.03%) SOAP
10 9 (7.03%) Spring Batch
10 9 (7.03%) Spring Integration
10 9 (7.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.66%) Replication
2 21 (16.41%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (14.84%) Product Ownership
4 18 (14.06%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.69%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.69%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.13%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.34%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
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 35 (27.34%) Linux
2 13 (10.16%) Unix
3 9 (7.03%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (3.13%) 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 56 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (40.63%) Microservices
4 42 (32.81%) Agile
5 39 (30.47%) Performance Tuning
6 38 (29.69%) DevOps
7 34 (26.56%) Observability
8 33 (25.78%) Event-Driven
9 29 (22.66%) Data Modelling
10 28 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (20.31%) API Design
12 24 (18.75%) Test Automation
13 22 (17.19%) High Availability
13 22 (17.19%) Technical Debt
13 22 (17.19%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (16.41%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (14.84%) Secrets Management
16 18 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
16 18 (14.06%) Scrum
17 17 (13.28%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 63 (49.22%) SQL
2 42 (32.81%) Python
3 40 (31.25%) Java
4 27 (21.09%) C#
5 19 (14.84%) TypeScript
6 17 (13.28%) JavaScript
7 16 (12.50%) Groovy
8 13 (10.16%) Bash
9 12 (9.38%) PowerShell
10 10 (7.81%) Scala
11 9 (7.03%) Shell Script
12 7 (5.47%) Perl
13 2 (1.56%) Go
13 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (39.84%) Security Cleared
2 46 (35.94%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.19%) AWS Certification
4 13 (10.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (8.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (7.81%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 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 49 (38.28%) 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 8 (6.25%) 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
7 2 (1.56%) Teradata
8 1 (0.78%) Foundry
8 1 (0.78%) IBM
8 1 (0.78%) Palantir