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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 464 488
Rank change year-on-year -28 +24 +149
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 96 78 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.50% 1.30% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 51 85
10th Percentile £400 £450 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +5.00% +2.25%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £600
90th Percentile £668 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £494 £490
% change year-on-year +6.28% +0.82% +0.93%

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 6,386 6,008 7,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.21% 18.11% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,410 3,965 5,070
10th Percentile £325 £343 £350
25th Percentile £409 £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 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 83 144
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.66 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.60 £23.08
Median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%
75th Percentile £73.70 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.00 £77.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.18% -40.45% -7.64%

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 1 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 1 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 -16 69 £575 -14.81% 22
London -4 49 £548 -18.89% 11
UK excluding London -38 41 £525 +6.28% 13
Work from Home -12 33 £525 +6.28% 9
North of England -41 14 £575 -4.17% 3
North West -14 13 £575 -4.17% 3
Scotland -1 12 £510 +6.25%
West Midlands - 10 £475 - 3
Midlands - 10 £475 - 3
East of England -15 2 - - 3
South East - 2 £525 - 3
South West -11 1 £450 -25.00% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -

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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 11 (11.46%) nginx
3 3 (3.13%) Apache
4 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.04%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.04%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (59.38%) Serverless
3 56 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (53.13%) Amazon S3
5 32 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 32 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (28.13%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (27.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (25.00%) GitHub
10 22 (22.92%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (21.88%) Azure
11 21 (21.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (19.79%) Route 53
13 17 (17.71%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (16.67%) Datadog
15 14 (14.58%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (13.54%) Amazon MSK
16 13 (13.54%) AWS Fargate
17 12 (12.50%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.75%) DNS
2 14 (14.58%) HTTP
3 10 (10.42%) Firewall
3 10 (10.42%) FTP
3 10 (10.42%) IMAP
3 10 (10.42%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (10.42%) SMTP
3 10 (10.42%) SSH
4 4 (4.17%) Internet
4 4 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.04%) VPN
5 1 (1.04%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (52.08%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (26.04%) MySQL
4 24 (25.00%) DynamoDB
5 18 (18.75%) NoSQL
6 17 (17.71%) Relational Database
7 15 (15.63%) Redis
8 9 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (8.33%) RDBMS
9 8 (8.33%) SQL Server
10 7 (7.29%) DocumentDB
11 6 (6.25%) MongoDB
12 5 (5.21%) BigQuery
13 4 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (4.17%) DB2
13 4 (4.17%) OLTP
14 3 (3.13%) MariaDB
14 3 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (39.58%) Jenkins
2 27 (28.13%) Git
3 11 (11.46%) JIRA
4 10 (10.42%) Vagrant
5 6 (6.25%) Gradle
5 6 (6.25%) Maven
5 6 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.21%) GitLab
6 5 (5.21%) SonarLint
7 4 (4.17%) NUnit
8 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.08%) JUnit
10 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.04%) Gatling
10 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 38 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.63%) Finance
4 10 (10.42%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Banking
6 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Architect
1 21 (21.88%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (18.75%) Senior
3 17 (17.71%) Developer
3 17 (17.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) Data Architect
8 9 (9.38%) Java Architect
9 8 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) AWS Architect
10 7 (7.29%) Lead
11 6 (6.25%) Java Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (6.25%) Technical Architect
12 5 (5.21%) DBA
12 5 (5.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.96%) Kafka
2 17 (17.71%) RESTful
2 17 (17.71%) Spring Boot
3 14 (14.58%) AWS CDK
3 14 (14.58%) OAuth
3 14 (14.58%) REST
4 13 (13.54%) .NET
4 13 (13.54%) React
4 13 (13.54%) Spring
5 12 (12.50%) Node.js
6 11 (11.46%) JWT
6 11 (11.46%) OAuth2
7 10 (10.42%) LDAP
8 9 (9.38%) .NET Core
9 8 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (5.21%) Dropwizard
10 5 (5.21%) J2EE
10 5 (5.21%) Micronaut
11 4 (4.17%) JSON
11 4 (4.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.08%) Cloud Native
2 21 (21.88%) Replication
3 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.21%) N-Tier
5 5 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.17%) Clustering
6 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.13%) PACS
7 3 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.08%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.08%) NHS
9 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.67%) Linux
2 12 (12.50%) Windows
3 11 (11.46%) Ubuntu
4 10 (10.42%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (10.42%) VMS
5 2 (2.08%) zOS
6 1 (1.04%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.04%) Unix
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (59.38%) DevOps
2 53 (55.21%) CI/CD
3 34 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.21%) Microservices
5 26 (27.08%) Containerisation
6 25 (26.04%) Performance Tuning
7 24 (25.00%) Agile
7 24 (25.00%) Observability
8 23 (23.96%) Event-Driven
9 22 (22.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 21 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (18.75%) Change Management
11 18 (18.75%) Roadmaps
12 17 (17.71%) Data Modelling
13 16 (16.67%) Configuration Management
14 14 (14.58%) Cloud Security
14 14 (14.58%) Migration
15 13 (13.54%) Design Patterns
15 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (13.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.92%) Python
2 36 (37.50%) SQL
3 20 (20.83%) Java
4 14 (14.58%) Groovy
5 12 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 12 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.42%) C#
7 8 (8.33%) Bash
8 7 (7.29%) JavaScript
9 5 (5.21%) Go
10 2 (2.08%) PHP
10 2 (2.08%) Ruby
10 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.04%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.04%) COBOL
11 1 (1.04%) JCL
11 1 (1.04%) REXX
11 1 (1.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.71%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.50%) Degree
5 10 (10.42%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.04%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.04%) OCP
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) QA
2 9 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.21%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.17%) ISO 20022
5 3 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.13%) NIST
6 1 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.04%) GDPR
6 1 (1.04%) SLA
6 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (52.08%) Docker
2 10 (10.42%) DFS Replication
2 10 (10.42%) Dovecot
2 10 (10.42%) Postfix
2 10 (10.42%) Squid
3 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (61.46%) Terraform
2 28 (29.17%) Grafana
3 26 (27.08%) Kubernetes
4 20 (20.83%) Prometheus
5 10 (10.42%) Ansible
5 10 (10.42%) Nessus
5 10 (10.42%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.17%) Puppet
6 4 (4.17%) Rancher
7 1 (1.04%) linkerd
7 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) ServiceNow
2 10 (10.42%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (5.21%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.21%) Gigya
4 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle
4 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.13%) Confluent
6 2 (2.08%) IBM
7 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.04%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.04%) Pega
7 1 (1.04%) Percona
7 1 (1.04%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.04%) Sage
7 1 (1.04%) SAP