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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 485 507
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 +144
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 101 76 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.59% 1.17% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 46 93
10th Percentile £403 £444 £413
25th Percentile £450 £460 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £581 £601 £608
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +7.29% -4.00% +1.11%

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 6,342 6,500 7,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 17.83% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 4,278 5,401
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -0.66% -3.09%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 88 147
10th Percentile £22.84 £18.35 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.88 £23.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -5.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £54.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.30 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.18% -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 29 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 29 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 0 65 £513 -14.58% 7
UK excluding London -4 51 £515 +7.29% 6
London +24 42 £513 -9.29% 1
Work from Home -3 37 £523 +5.77% 4
Scotland +2 19 £515 +8.71%
North of England -30 14 £575 - 4
North West -14 13 £575 - 4
Midlands - 13 £463 -
West Midlands - 13 £463 -
East of England - 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 1
South West +5 1 £450 -25.00%
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 14 (13.86%) Confluence
2 13 (12.87%) nginx
3 4 (3.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.99%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.99%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (51.49%) Serverless
3 51 (50.50%) Amazon S3
3 51 (50.50%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (33.66%) Amazon EC2
5 30 (29.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 30 (29.70%) Amazon ECS
6 27 (26.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (22.77%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (21.78%) Amazon SQS
8 22 (21.78%) Azure
9 21 (20.79%) GitHub
9 21 (20.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 19 (18.81%) Datadog
10 19 (18.81%) Route 53
11 15 (14.85%) AWS KMS
12 14 (13.86%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (11.88%) Amazon ELB
13 12 (11.88%) AWS Fargate
13 12 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.85%) DNS
2 14 (13.86%) HTTP
3 12 (11.88%) IMAP
3 12 (11.88%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (11.88%) SMTP
4 10 (9.90%) Firewall
4 10 (9.90%) FTP
4 10 (9.90%) SSH
5 4 (3.96%) Internet
5 4 (3.96%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.99%) VPN
6 1 (0.99%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (63.37%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (53.47%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (23.76%) MySQL
4 21 (20.79%) DynamoDB
5 16 (15.84%) Relational Database
6 15 (14.85%) NoSQL
7 13 (12.87%) Redis
8 10 (9.90%) SQL Server
9 8 (7.92%) RDBMS
10 7 (6.93%) MongoDB
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (5.94%) BigQuery
12 5 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (4.95%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (4.95%) MariaDB
13 4 (3.96%) DocumentDB
13 4 (3.96%) Metadata
13 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database
14 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (2.97%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (40.59%) Jenkins
2 34 (33.66%) Git
3 13 (12.87%) JIRA
4 12 (11.88%) Vagrant
5 11 (10.89%) SonarQube
6 8 (7.92%) Maven
7 7 (6.93%) Cypress.io
8 6 (5.94%) Gradle
9 5 (4.95%) SonarLint
10 4 (3.96%) JUnit
11 3 (2.97%) NUnit
12 2 (1.98%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.99%) DbUnit
13 1 (0.99%) jMock
13 1 (0.99%) Mockito
13 1 (0.99%) Selenium
13 1 (0.99%) Storybook
13 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 40 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.76%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.85%) Finance
4 10 (9.90%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.98%) Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (21.78%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (19.80%) Developer
3 19 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (16.83%) Senior
5 15 (14.85%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (13.86%) Architect
6 14 (13.86%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (12.87%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 13 (12.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (11.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (10.89%) Lead
10 10 (9.90%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 10 (9.90%) Java Developer
11 7 (6.93%) Software Engineer
11 7 (6.93%) Technical Leader
12 6 (5.94%) Data Architect
12 6 (5.94%) DBA
12 6 (5.94%) Java Architect
12 6 (5.94%) Java Technical Architect
12 6 (5.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.83%) AWS CDK
1 17 (16.83%) React
1 17 (16.83%) RESTful
1 17 (16.83%) Spring Boot
2 16 (15.84%) Kafka
3 14 (13.86%) Spring
4 13 (12.87%) .NET
5 12 (11.88%) LDAP
5 12 (11.88%) Node.js
5 12 (11.88%) OAuth
6 11 (10.89%) REST
7 10 (9.90%) JWT
8 9 (8.91%) OAuth2
9 8 (7.92%) .NET Core
9 8 (7.92%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (5.94%) CSS
10 6 (5.94%) HTML
11 5 (4.95%) Dropwizard
11 5 (4.95%) Hibernate
11 5 (4.95%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 22 (21.78%) Replication
3 6 (5.94%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.95%) Clustering
4 5 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.95%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.98%) NHS
7 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.99%) DataPower
8 1 (0.99%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.99%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.99%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.80%) Linux
2 12 (11.88%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (11.88%) VMS
3 11 (10.89%) Ubuntu
3 11 (10.89%) Windows
4 1 (0.99%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.99%) Unix
4 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.99%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (56.44%) DevOps
2 50 (49.50%) CI/CD
3 34 (33.66%) Agile
4 31 (30.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (29.70%) Microservices
6 26 (25.74%) Containerisation
7 23 (22.77%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (19.80%) Change Management
8 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (17.82%) Configuration Management
9 18 (17.82%) Observability
10 17 (16.83%) Roadmaps
10 17 (16.83%) Software Engineering
11 16 (15.84%) Cloud Security
11 16 (15.84%) Event-Driven
11 16 (15.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (14.85%) TDD
13 14 (13.86%) Data Modelling
13 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
13 14 (13.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.51%) Python
2 36 (35.64%) SQL
3 25 (24.75%) Java
4 17 (16.83%) TypeScript
5 16 (15.84%) Groovy
6 14 (13.86%) PowerShell
7 10 (9.90%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.91%) C#
9 8 (7.92%) Bash
10 6 (5.94%) Go
11 2 (1.98%) Ruby
11 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.99%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.99%) COBOL
12 1 (0.99%) JCL
12 1 (0.99%) PHP
12 1 (0.99%) REXX
12 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.83%) AWS Certification
4 12 (11.88%) Degree
5 10 (9.90%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.99%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.99%) OCP
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.87%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.93%) QA
3 4 (3.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.97%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.99%) GDPR
5 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.99%) SLA
5 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (49.50%) Docker
2 13 (12.87%) Postfix
3 12 (11.88%) Dovecot
3 12 (11.88%) Squid
4 10 (9.90%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (58.42%) Terraform
2 30 (29.70%) Grafana
3 29 (28.71%) Kubernetes
4 22 (21.78%) Prometheus
5 12 (11.88%) Nessus
6 10 (9.90%) Ansible
6 10 (9.90%) Proxmox
7 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.96%) Puppet
7 4 (3.96%) Rancher
8 1 (0.99%) linkerd
8 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) ServiceNow
2 13 (12.87%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (6.93%) Oracle
4 5 (4.95%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.95%) Gigya
4 5 (4.95%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.96%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.98%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.99%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.99%) Google
7 1 (0.99%) IBM
7 1 (0.99%) Informatica
7 1 (0.99%) Pega
7 1 (0.99%) Percona
7 1 (0.99%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.99%) Sage
7 1 (0.99%) SAP
7 1 (0.99%) Talend