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 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 557 | 447 | 480 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -110 | +33 | +45 |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora | 123 | 114 | 75 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 0.22% | 0.34% | 0.20% |
| As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category | 1.50% | 1.90% | 1.14% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 86 | 83 | 49 |
| 10th Percentile | £409 | £413 | £438 |
| 25th Percentile | £500 | £456 | £460 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £539 | £500 | £495 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +7.80% | +1.01% | -2.56% |
| 75th Percentile | £678 | £575 | £578 |
| 90th Percentile | £788 | £650 | £688 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £490 | £500 | £475 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.00% | +5.26% | -1.04% |
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.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills | 8,191 | 6,001 | 6,569 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK | 14.88% | 18.09% | 17.72% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5,449 | 4,029 | 4,416 |
| 10th Percentile | £356 | £338 | £350 |
| 25th Percentile | £419 | £413 | £425 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £505 | £500 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.00% | -4.76% | -2.33% |
| 75th Percentile | £625 | £625 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £717 | £734 | £778 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £475 | £475 | £485 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -2.06% | -3.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 307 | 82 | 89 |
| 10th Percentile | £17.17 | £20.78 | £17.50 |
| 25th Percentile | £21.63 | £29.00 | £21.25 |
| Median hourly rate | £40.18 | £40.25 | £30.21 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -0.16% | +33.22% | -39.58% |
| 75th Percentile | £57.50 | £64.94 | £53.75 |
| 90th Percentile | £74.68 | £80.00 | £70.10 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £41.00 | £36.00 | £30.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +13.89% | +20.00% | -40.00% |
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 Daily Rate Trend
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 20 October 2026.
Amazon Aurora Hourly Rate Trend
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 20 October 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 | -113 | 76 | £529 | +5.75% | 78 |
| London | -74 | 58 | £529 | -2.76% | 55 |
| Work from Home | -80 | 51 | £600 | +20.00% | 45 |
| UK excluding London | -148 | 28 | £490 | -2.00% | 27 |
| Scotland | -43 | 12 | £490 | -3.92% | 3 |
| Midlands | -59 | 6 | £404 | -15.05% | 2 |
| South East | -55 | 4 | £533 | +18.33% | 16 |
| South West | -38 | 3 | £585 | +30.00% | |
| West Midlands | -70 | 3 | - | - | 1 |
| North of England | -79 | 2 | £525 | -6.67% | 3 |
| East Midlands | - | 2 | £404 | - | 1 |
| East of England | -26 | 1 | £350 | - | 2 |
| Yorkshire | -37 | 1 | £400 | +6.67% | 2 |
| North West | -58 | 1 | £650 | +13.04% | 1 |
Amazon Aurora Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Database & Business Intelligence
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PostgreSQL | 65.0% | 80 |
| 2 | Amazon RDS | 61.8% | 76 |
| 3 | MySQL | 37.4% | 46 |
| 4 | DynamoDB | 27.6% | 34 |
| 5 | SQL Server | 13.0% | 16 |
| 6 | Redis | 11.4% | 14 |
| 7 | MongoDB | 10.6% | 13 |
| 8 | Amazon Redshift | 5.7% | 7 |
| 8 | Data Warehouse | 5.7% | 7 |
| 10 | Amazon Athena | 4.9% | 6 |
| 10 | Data Lake | 4.9% | 6 |
| 12 | Db2 | 4.1% | 5 |
| 12 | Relational Database | 4.1% | 5 |
| 14 | MariaDB | 3.3% | 4 |
| 14 | Metadata | 3.3% | 4 |
| 14 | SQL Server Integration Services | 3.3% | 4 |
| 17 | NoSQL | 2.4% | 3 |
| 17 | OLTP | 2.4% | 3 |
| 19 | Pinecone | 1.6% | 2 |
| 19 | Weaviate | 1.6% | 2 |