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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 463 510
Rank change year-on-year -98 +47 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 110 103 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.31% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.35% 1.72% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 74 41
10th Percentile £416 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +3.52% -3.40%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £575
90th Percentile £850 £653 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £480
% change year-on-year -3.65% +2.71% -0.78%
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 8,158 5,984 7,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.17% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,435 4,045 4,978
10th Percentile £356 £344 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 91 102
10th Percentile £15.95 £20.75 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.88 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.70 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -38.77%

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 11 August 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 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 11 August 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 -105 71 £550 +10.00% 39
London -74 44 £550 -8.33% 27
Work from Home -66 42 £582 +17.76% 23
UK excluding London -114 42 £475 -3.65% 24
Midlands -57 16 £475 - 1
West Midlands -59 15 £475 - 1
Scotland -27 13 £475 -3.65% 10
North of England -79 6 £538 +7.50% 4
East of England -18 3 £350 - 1
North West -45 3 £650 +30.00% 3
North East - 3 £425 - 1
South East -73 2 £533 +18.33% 6
South West - 2 £585 - 2

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 10 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.18%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (5.45%) Confluence
4 2 (1.82%) nginx
5 1 (0.91%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (47.27%) AWS Lambda
3 50 (45.45%) Serverless
4 47 (42.73%) Amazon S3
5 44 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 41 (37.27%) GitHub
7 35 (31.82%) Amazon SQS
8 33 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (26.36%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (26.36%) AWS KMS
10 26 (23.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (21.82%) Route 53
12 23 (20.91%) Amazon EventBridge
13 18 (16.36%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (14.55%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (14.55%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (13.64%) Azure
16 11 (10.00%) SaaS
17 8 (7.27%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (62.73%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (37.27%) DynamoDB
4 34 (30.91%) MySQL
5 16 (14.55%) MongoDB
6 15 (13.64%) NoSQL
7 10 (9.09%) Redis
8 9 (8.18%) Big Data
9 7 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (6.36%) Presto
10 6 (5.45%) MariaDB
10 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
11 5 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (4.55%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (4.55%) OLTP
12 4 (3.64%) Data Vault
12 4 (3.64%) Db2
13 2 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (1.82%) Flink
13 2 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 45 (40.91%) Git
3 19 (17.27%) Maven
4 17 (15.45%) SonarQube
5 16 (14.55%) JUnit
5 16 (14.55%) Mockito
6 15 (13.64%) Claude Code
7 12 (10.91%) DbUnit
8 11 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 11 (10.00%) jMock
9 6 (5.45%) JIRA
10 5 (4.55%) GitLab
11 4 (3.64%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.64%) Selenium
12 3 (2.73%) Gradle
12 3 (2.73%) WebDriver
12 3 (2.73%) webpack
13 2 (1.82%) Flyway
13 2 (1.82%) Liquibase
General
1 37 (33.64%) Public Sector
2 29 (26.36%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.82%) Finance
5 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Banking
6 2 (1.82%) Local Government
7 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.91%) French Language
7 1 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (27.27%) Developer
2 28 (25.45%) Senior
3 23 (20.91%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (15.45%) Java Developer
5 16 (14.55%) DBA
6 15 (13.64%) Architect
7 12 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Administrator
8 10 (9.09%) AWS Architect
8 10 (9.09%) Data Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Lambda Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Technical Architect
9 8 (7.27%) Scala Engineer
9 8 (7.27%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.36%) AWS Developer
10 7 (6.36%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (6.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.36%) Python Developer
10 7 (6.36%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (32.73%) RESTful
2 33 (30.00%) REST
3 26 (23.64%) Spring
3 26 (23.64%) Spring Boot
4 20 (18.18%) AngularJS
5 19 (17.27%) Node.js
6 17 (15.45%) .NET
7 16 (14.55%) ActiveMQ
7 16 (14.55%) AWS CDK
7 16 (14.55%) Hibernate
7 16 (14.55%) JPA
7 16 (14.55%) SOAP
7 16 (14.55%) Spring Batch
7 16 (14.55%) Spring Integration
7 16 (14.55%) Web Services
8 14 (12.73%) Spring Cloud
9 11 (10.00%) Bootstrap
9 11 (10.00%) Kafka
9 11 (10.00%) PowerMock
10 10 (9.09%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.09%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (16.36%) Replication
3 17 (15.45%) Cloud Native
4 16 (14.55%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.36%) Hedge funds
6 6 (5.45%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.82%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.82%) PACS
9 2 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.91%) PropTech
10 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 38 (34.55%) Linux
2 14 (12.73%) Unix
3 6 (5.45%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.91%) Windows
4 1 (0.91%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (73.64%) CI/CD
2 55 (50.00%) Microservices
3 42 (38.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (37.27%) Agile
5 33 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
6 31 (28.18%) DevOps
7 28 (25.45%) Event-Driven
8 26 (23.64%) Observability
9 25 (22.73%) Scrum
10 22 (20.00%) API Design
10 22 (20.00%) Kanban
10 22 (20.00%) Technical Debt
11 21 (19.09%) Containerisation
11 21 (19.09%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (18.18%) Test Automation
13 19 (17.27%) Data Modelling
13 19 (17.27%) TDD
14 17 (15.45%) High Availability
15 15 (13.64%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (51.82%) SQL
2 44 (40.00%) Java
3 37 (33.64%) Python
4 24 (21.82%) C#
5 19 (17.27%) TypeScript
6 15 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 12 (10.91%) Groovy
8 11 (10.00%) Bash
9 10 (9.09%) PowerShell
9 10 (9.09%) Scala
9 10 (9.09%) Shell Script
10 6 (5.45%) Perl
11 2 (1.82%) Go
11 2 (1.82%) Ruby
12 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 40 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 17 (15.45%) AWS Certification
4 10 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (7.27%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.64%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.73%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.82%) GDPR
4 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) QA
5 1 (0.91%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (44.55%) Docker
2 9 (8.18%) Postfix
3 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (48.18%) Terraform
2 48 (43.64%) Grafana
3 24 (21.82%) Prometheus
4 17 (15.45%) Kubernetes
5 9 (8.18%) Kibana
6 3 (2.73%) Rancher
7 2 (1.82%) Ansible
7 2 (1.82%) linkerd
8 1 (0.91%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 15 (13.64%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (10.91%) Atlassian
3 9 (8.18%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.36%) Oracle
4 7 (6.36%) Splunk
5 6 (5.45%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.82%) Confluent
6 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.91%) IBM