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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 443 503
Rank change year-on-year -90 +60 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 92 76 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.27% 1.36% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 57 70
10th Percentile £441 £450 £349
25th Percentile £463 £475 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +26.32% -0.84%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -0.84%
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 7,248 5,572 7,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 18.95% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,838 5,209
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 99 145
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £48.72 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.15% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.50 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -30.43%

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 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 11 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 -98 68 £598 -5.83% 13
London -39 43 £585 -7.87% 7
UK excluding London -88 36 £495 -1.00% 5
Work from Home -34 26 £581 -3.10% 10
West Midlands -52 14 £475 +13.10%
Midlands -57 14 £475 +13.10%
Scotland -7 8 £473 -5.50% 1
North of England -65 6 £538 +7.50% 1
South West -32 4 £606 -6.77%
North West -42 3 £650 +30.00%
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East of England -30 2 - - 1
South East -57 1 £740 +48.00% 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 (11.96%) Apache Spark
2 9 (9.78%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.52%) Confluence
4 2 (2.17%) Apache
4 2 (2.17%) nginx
5 1 (1.09%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 90 (97.83%) AWS
2 54 (58.70%) Amazon S3
3 44 (47.83%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (45.65%) Serverless
5 34 (36.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (33.70%) Amazon SQS
7 29 (31.52%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (30.43%) GitHub
8 28 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (23.91%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (20.65%) AWS KMS
10 19 (20.65%) Route 53
11 18 (19.57%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (17.39%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (14.13%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (14.13%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (14.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (11.96%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (11.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (11.96%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) DNS
2 3 (3.26%) Firewall
3 1 (1.09%) HTTP
3 1 (1.09%) Internet
3 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (60.87%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (52.17%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (43.48%) DynamoDB
4 25 (27.17%) MySQL
5 19 (20.65%) NoSQL
6 13 (14.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (14.13%) MongoDB
7 9 (9.78%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (9.78%) Big Data
7 9 (9.78%) Data Vault
8 8 (8.70%) OLTP
8 8 (8.70%) Redis
9 7 (7.61%) Flink
9 7 (7.61%) Presto
9 7 (7.61%) Relational Database
9 7 (7.61%) Star Schema
10 6 (6.52%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (6.52%) Apache Iceberg
10 6 (6.52%) Tableau
11 5 (5.43%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 45 (48.91%) Jenkins
2 32 (34.78%) Git
3 15 (16.30%) JUnit
4 14 (15.22%) Maven
4 14 (15.22%) Mockito
4 14 (15.22%) SonarQube
5 11 (11.96%) DbUnit
5 11 (11.96%) jMock
6 9 (9.78%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (9.78%) GitLab
7 6 (6.52%) JIRA
8 4 (4.35%) Claude Code
8 4 (4.35%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.35%) NUnit
8 4 (4.35%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (4.35%) Selenium
9 3 (3.26%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (22.83%) Public Sector
2 16 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Finance
4 3 (3.26%) Banking
4 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.17%) Local Government
5 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.09%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.09%) Dutch Language
6 1 (1.09%) French Language
Job Titles
1 27 (29.35%) Developer
2 17 (18.48%) Architect
2 17 (18.48%) Senior
3 15 (16.30%) Java Developer
4 14 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Data Architect
7 8 (8.70%) AWS Architect
7 8 (8.70%) DBA
7 8 (8.70%) Scala Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) AWS Developer
8 7 (7.61%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Python Developer
8 7 (7.61%) SQL Developer
9 6 (6.52%) Lead
10 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (29.35%) REST
2 26 (28.26%) RESTful
3 22 (23.91%) Spring
3 22 (23.91%) Spring Boot
4 21 (22.83%) Kafka
5 19 (20.65%) JPA
6 18 (19.57%) Hibernate
6 18 (19.57%) Spring Cloud
7 15 (16.30%) AngularJS
7 15 (16.30%) Web Services
8 14 (15.22%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (15.22%) SOAP
8 14 (15.22%) Spring Batch
8 14 (15.22%) Spring Integration
9 12 (13.04%) .NET
10 11 (11.96%) Node.js
10 11 (11.96%) PowerMock
11 10 (10.87%) OAuth
12 9 (9.78%) Bootstrap
12 9 (9.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (18.48%) Cloud Native
3 11 (11.96%) Product Ownership
4 10 (10.87%) Replication
5 7 (7.61%) Hedge funds
6 6 (6.52%) PACS
6 6 (6.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (4.35%) Mainframe
8 4 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.17%) VSAM
10 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.09%) Clustering
10 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.09%) DataPower
10 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.04%) Linux
2 14 (15.22%) Unix
3 4 (4.35%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (4.35%) zOS
4 2 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (64.13%) CI/CD
2 41 (44.57%) Microservices
3 40 (43.48%) DevOps
4 34 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (35.87%) Agile
6 29 (31.52%) Event-Driven
7 25 (27.17%) Observability
8 23 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 23 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 22 (23.91%) Performance Tuning
9 22 (23.91%) Scrum
9 22 (23.91%) Test Automation
10 19 (20.65%) Analytics
11 17 (18.48%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (18.48%) Kanban
12 16 (17.39%) Data Modelling
13 15 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (16.30%) TDD
14 14 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
15 13 (14.13%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (58.70%) SQL
2 38 (41.30%) Java
3 35 (38.04%) Python
4 19 (20.65%) C#
5 16 (17.39%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.96%) Scala
7 8 (8.70%) Bash
7 8 (8.70%) Groovy
7 8 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.61%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
10 4 (4.35%) Perl
10 4 (4.35%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.26%) Go
12 2 (2.17%) COBOL
12 2 (2.17%) Ruby
13 1 (1.09%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.09%) JCL
13 1 (1.09%) PHP
13 1 (1.09%) REXX
Qualifications
1 32 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.61%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) QA
2 7 (7.61%) ISO 20022
3 6 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.52%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.35%) NIST
5 3 (3.26%) GDPR
6 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 53 (57.61%) Docker
2 10 (10.87%) Postfix
3 4 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (48.91%) Terraform
2 42 (45.65%) Grafana
3 18 (19.57%) Prometheus
4 11 (11.96%) Kubernetes
5 8 (8.70%) Kibana
6 4 (4.35%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.35%) Rancher
7 3 (3.26%) Ansible
8 2 (2.17%) linkerd
9 1 (1.09%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (15.22%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (11.96%) Atlassian
2 11 (11.96%) Oracle
3 8 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 7 (7.61%) Splunk
5 6 (6.52%) Confluent
6 5 (5.43%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.35%) IBM
8 1 (1.09%) GoldenSource
8 1 (1.09%) Percona
8 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.09%) Virgin Media