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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 457 500
Rank change year-on-year -27 +43 +116
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 95 77 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.52% 1.33% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 52 81
10th Percentile £413 £450 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £603 £688 £595
90th Percentile £669 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £494 £490
% change year-on-year +8.62% +0.82% -0.91%

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 6,254 5,804 7,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.04% 18.17% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,314 3,826 4,964
10th Percentile £329 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £759 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 78 143
10th Percentile £19.60 £19.59 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.61
Median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £64.52
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.95 £77.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -37.74% -7.69%

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 9 January 2026.

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 9 January 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 -22 71 £575 -14.81% 29
London +3 49 £548 -18.89% 3
UK excluding London -44 41 £537 +8.62% 30
Work from Home -24 32 £525 +6.28% 30
North of England -35 13 £575 -4.17% 5
North West -19 12 £575 -4.17% 3
Scotland -15 10 £510 +6.25% 1
Midlands - 10 £475 - 2
West Midlands - 10 £475 - 1
South West -11 4 £606 +1.00% 2
East of England -22 2 - - 8
South East - 2 £525 - 9
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 1

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 (12.63%) Confluence
2 11 (11.58%) nginx
3 3 (3.16%) Apache
4 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.05%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.05%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (58.95%) Serverless
3 55 (57.89%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (52.63%) Amazon S3
5 32 (33.68%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (32.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (30.53%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (28.42%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (25.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (25.26%) GitHub
10 22 (23.16%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (22.11%) Azure
12 20 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (20.00%) Route 53
14 17 (17.89%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (14.74%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (14.74%) Datadog
16 13 (13.68%) Amazon MSK
16 13 (13.68%) AWS Fargate
17 12 (12.63%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.95%) DNS
2 14 (14.74%) HTTP
3 10 (10.53%) Firewall
3 10 (10.53%) FTP
3 10 (10.53%) IMAP
3 10 (10.53%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (10.53%) SMTP
3 10 (10.53%) SSH
4 4 (4.21%) Internet
4 4 (4.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.05%) VPN
5 1 (1.05%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (64.21%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (53.68%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (28.42%) MySQL
4 26 (27.37%) DynamoDB
5 18 (18.95%) NoSQL
6 17 (17.89%) Relational Database
7 15 (15.79%) Redis
8 9 (9.47%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (9.47%) MongoDB
9 8 (8.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (8.42%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (8.42%) RDBMS
10 7 (7.37%) DocumentDB
10 7 (7.37%) SQL Server
11 5 (5.26%) BigQuery
12 4 (4.21%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (4.21%) DB2
12 4 (4.21%) OLTP
13 3 (3.16%) Star Schema
13 3 (3.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 27 (28.42%) Git
3 11 (11.58%) JIRA
4 10 (10.53%) Vagrant
5 6 (6.32%) Gradle
5 6 (6.32%) Maven
5 6 (6.32%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.26%) GitLab
6 5 (5.26%) SonarLint
7 4 (4.21%) NUnit
8 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.16%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (2.11%) JUnit
10 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.05%) Gatling
10 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 36 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.95%) Public Sector
3 14 (14.74%) Finance
4 10 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.11%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (22.11%) Architect
1 21 (22.11%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (17.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (17.89%) Senior
3 16 (16.84%) Developer
4 13 (13.68%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (12.63%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (9.47%) Data Architect
8 9 (9.47%) Java Architect
9 8 (8.42%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (7.37%) AWS Architect
10 7 (7.37%) DBA
10 7 (7.37%) Lead
10 7 (7.37%) Software Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) Java Developer
11 6 (6.32%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (6.32%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.21%) Kafka
2 17 (17.89%) RESTful
2 17 (17.89%) Spring Boot
3 14 (14.74%) REST
4 13 (13.68%) .NET
4 13 (13.68%) AWS CDK
4 13 (13.68%) OAuth
4 13 (13.68%) React
4 13 (13.68%) Spring
5 11 (11.58%) JWT
5 11 (11.58%) Node.js
6 10 (10.53%) LDAP
6 10 (10.53%) OAuth2
7 9 (9.47%) .NET Core
8 8 (8.42%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (5.26%) Dropwizard
9 5 (5.26%) J2EE
9 5 (5.26%) Micronaut
10 4 (4.21%) JSON
10 4 (4.21%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 20 (21.05%) Replication
3 7 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.32%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.26%) N-Tier
5 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.16%) Clustering
7 3 (3.16%) PACS
7 3 (3.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.11%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.05%) NHS
9 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.05%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Linux
2 12 (12.63%) Windows
3 11 (11.58%) Ubuntu
4 10 (10.53%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (10.53%) VMS
5 2 (2.11%) zOS
6 1 (1.05%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.05%) Unix
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (58.95%) DevOps
2 52 (54.74%) CI/CD
3 33 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (29.47%) Microservices
5 26 (27.37%) Containerisation
6 24 (25.26%) Performance Tuning
7 23 (24.21%) Agile
7 23 (24.21%) Event-Driven
7 23 (24.21%) Observability
8 22 (23.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 21 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (18.95%) Change Management
10 18 (18.95%) Roadmaps
11 17 (17.89%) Data Modelling
12 16 (16.84%) Configuration Management
13 15 (15.79%) Software Engineering
14 14 (14.74%) Cloud Security
15 13 (13.68%) AI
15 13 (13.68%) Design Patterns
15 13 (13.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (47.37%) Python
2 39 (41.05%) SQL
3 19 (20.00%) Java
4 14 (14.74%) Groovy
5 12 (12.63%) PowerShell
6 11 (11.58%) TypeScript
7 10 (10.53%) C#
8 8 (8.42%) Bash
9 6 (6.32%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.21%) Go
11 3 (3.16%) PL/SQL
12 2 (2.11%) PHP
12 2 (2.11%) Ruby
12 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
13 1 (1.05%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.05%) COBOL
13 1 (1.05%) JCL
13 1 (1.05%) REXX
13 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.89%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.63%) Degree
5 10 (10.53%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.05%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.05%) OCP
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) Accessibility
1 9 (9.47%) QA
2 4 (4.21%) ISO 20022
2 4 (4.21%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.16%) NIST
4 1 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) SLA
4 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (52.63%) Docker
2 10 (10.53%) DFS Replication
2 10 (10.53%) Dovecot
2 10 (10.53%) Postfix
2 10 (10.53%) Squid
3 3 (3.16%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (60.00%) Terraform
2 28 (29.47%) Grafana
3 25 (26.32%) Kubernetes
4 20 (21.05%) Prometheus
5 10 (10.53%) Ansible
5 10 (10.53%) Nessus
5 10 (10.53%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.21%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.21%) Puppet
6 4 (4.21%) Rancher
7 3 (3.16%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.05%) linkerd
8 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (14.74%) ServiceNow
2 10 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (6.32%) Oracle
4 5 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.26%) Gigya
5 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.21%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.16%) Confluent
7 2 (2.11%) IBM
8 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.05%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.05%) Percona
8 1 (1.05%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.05%) Sage
8 1 (1.05%) SAP