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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 452 504
Rank change year-on-year -75 +52 +49
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 89 75 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.23% 1.35% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 55 77
10th Percentile £427 £450 £380
25th Percentile £459 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +26.32% -0.84%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £569
90th Percentile £672 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -2.00% +4.17% +0.21%
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 7,220 5,556 7,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.30% 18.97% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,903 3,836 5,196
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 103 143
10th Percentile £16.72 £19.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.72 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.39% -17.98% -31.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £58.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.13 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.43% -25.00% -27.27%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -88 68 £592 -6.85% 12
London -42 41 £585 -7.87% 7
UK excluding London -92 38 £490 -2.00% 5
Work from Home -34 24 £575 -4.19% 7
West Midlands -53 14 £475 +13.10%
Midlands -63 14 £475 +13.10%
Scotland -19 8 £473 -5.50% 1
North of England -57 6 £538 -2.27% 1
South West -32 4 £606 -6.77% 1
East of England -35 3 - -
North West -36 3 £650 +18.18%
North East - 3 £425 - 1
South East -54 2 £525 +5.00% 2
Wales - 1 £500 -

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 11 (12.36%) Apache Spark
2 10 (11.24%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.62%) Confluence
4 3 (3.37%) Apache
5 2 (2.25%) nginx
6 1 (1.12%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 87 (97.75%) AWS
2 53 (59.55%) Amazon S3
3 41 (46.07%) AWS Lambda
4 39 (43.82%) Serverless
5 33 (37.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 28 (31.46%) Amazon EC2
6 28 (31.46%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (26.97%) GitHub
7 24 (26.97%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (25.84%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (21.35%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (21.35%) Route 53
10 18 (20.22%) AWS KMS
11 13 (14.61%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (14.61%) Amazon MSK
12 12 (13.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (12.36%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (12.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (12.36%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (11.24%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) DNS
2 2 (2.25%) Firewall
3 1 (1.12%) HTTP
3 1 (1.12%) Internet
3 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (62.92%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (51.69%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (42.70%) DynamoDB
4 22 (24.72%) MySQL
5 20 (22.47%) NoSQL
6 13 (14.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (14.61%) MongoDB
7 9 (10.11%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (10.11%) Big Data
7 9 (10.11%) Data Vault
8 8 (8.99%) OLTP
8 8 (8.99%) Redis
8 8 (8.99%) Relational Database
9 7 (7.87%) Flink
9 7 (7.87%) Presto
9 7 (7.87%) Star Schema
10 6 (6.74%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (6.74%) Apache Iceberg
10 6 (6.74%) Tableau
11 5 (5.62%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 44 (49.44%) Jenkins
2 29 (32.58%) Git
3 15 (16.85%) JUnit
4 14 (15.73%) Maven
4 14 (15.73%) Mockito
4 14 (15.73%) SonarQube
5 11 (12.36%) DbUnit
5 11 (12.36%) jMock
6 9 (10.11%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (10.11%) GitLab
7 5 (5.62%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.62%) JIRA
8 4 (4.49%) NUnit
8 4 (4.49%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (4.49%) Selenium
9 3 (3.37%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.12%) Claude Code
10 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.12%) Gatling
10 1 (1.12%) Gradle
General
1 20 (22.47%) Public Sector
2 17 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Finance
3 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.37%) Banking
4 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.25%) Local Government
5 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.12%) Dutch Language
6 1 (1.12%) French Language
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Developer
2 17 (19.10%) Architect
3 16 (17.98%) Java Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Senior
5 12 (13.48%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (11.24%) Data Architect
6 10 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) AWS Architect
7 8 (8.99%) Scala Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (7.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) DBA
8 7 (7.87%) Lead
9 6 (6.74%) AWS Developer
9 6 (6.74%) Python Developer
9 6 (6.74%) SQL Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.49%) Oracle DBA
11 4 (4.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.21%) REST
2 25 (28.09%) RESTful
3 23 (25.84%) Spring
4 22 (24.72%) Spring Boot
5 21 (23.60%) Kafka
6 20 (22.47%) JPA
7 18 (20.22%) Hibernate
7 18 (20.22%) Spring Cloud
8 15 (16.85%) AngularJS
8 15 (16.85%) Web Services
9 14 (15.73%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (15.73%) SOAP
9 14 (15.73%) Spring Batch
9 14 (15.73%) Spring Integration
10 12 (13.48%) Node.js
11 11 (12.36%) PowerMock
12 10 (11.24%) OAuth
13 9 (10.11%) .NET
13 9 (10.11%) Bootstrap
13 9 (10.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.72%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (17.98%) Cloud Native
3 9 (10.11%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.11%) Replication
4 6 (6.74%) Hedge funds
4 6 (6.74%) PACS
4 6 (6.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.49%) Mainframe
6 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.25%) VSAM
8 1 (1.12%) Clustering
8 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.12%) DataPower
8 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 33 (37.08%) Linux
2 13 (14.61%) Unix
3 4 (4.49%) zOS
4 3 (3.37%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (61.80%) CI/CD
2 39 (43.82%) DevOps
3 37 (41.57%) Microservices
4 33 (37.08%) Agile
5 31 (34.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (29.21%) Event-Driven
7 23 (25.84%) Containerisation
7 23 (25.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 23 (25.84%) Test Automation
8 22 (24.72%) Observability
8 22 (24.72%) Scrum
9 21 (23.60%) Performance Tuning
10 19 (21.35%) Analytics
11 17 (19.10%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (19.10%) Kanban
12 15 (16.85%) Data Modelling
12 15 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (16.85%) TDD
13 13 (14.61%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (60.67%) SQL
2 38 (42.70%) Java
3 34 (38.20%) Python
4 16 (17.98%) JavaScript
5 15 (16.85%) C#
6 11 (12.36%) Scala
7 8 (8.99%) Bash
8 7 (7.87%) Groovy
8 7 (7.87%) PowerShell
9 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
10 5 (5.62%) TypeScript
11 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
12 3 (3.37%) Go
12 3 (3.37%) Perl
13 2 (2.25%) COBOL
13 2 (2.25%) Ruby
14 1 (1.12%) Assembly Language
14 1 (1.12%) JCL
14 1 (1.12%) PHP
14 1 (1.12%) REXX
Qualifications
1 31 (34.83%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.84%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.36%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.12%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.12%) OCP
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) QA
2 7 (7.87%) ISO 20022
3 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.74%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.49%) NIST
5 3 (3.37%) GDPR
6 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 52 (58.43%) Docker
2 10 (11.24%) Postfix
3 4 (4.49%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 42 (47.19%) Terraform
2 41 (46.07%) Grafana
3 17 (19.10%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.36%) Kubernetes
5 8 (8.99%) Kibana
6 4 (4.49%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.49%) Rancher
7 3 (3.37%) Ansible
8 2 (2.25%) linkerd
9 1 (1.12%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (15.73%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (12.36%) Atlassian
2 11 (12.36%) Oracle
3 7 (7.87%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.87%) Splunk
4 6 (6.74%) Confluent
5 5 (5.62%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.49%) IBM
7 1 (1.12%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.12%) Percona
7 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.12%) Virgin Media