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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 453 494
Rank change year-on-year -87 +41 +51
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 90 71 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.24% 1.28% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 52 78
10th Percentile £428 £450 £385
25th Percentile £460 £479 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +26.32% -0.84%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £565
90th Percentile £671 £700 £696
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 7,273 5,550 7,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.39% 18.97% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,956 3,833 5,210
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £480
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.88% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 104 143
10th Percentile £16.72 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.56 £24.06 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.15 £58.62
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.13 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% -25.00% -31.09%

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 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 1 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 -81 69 £585 -7.87% 11
London -45 42 £583 -8.13% 7
UK excluding London -86 38 £490 -2.00% 4
Work from Home -35 24 £575 -4.19% 8
West Midlands -54 14 £475 +13.10%
Midlands -68 14 £475 +13.10%
Scotland -11 8 £473 -5.50% 1
North of England -62 6 £538 -2.27% 1
South West -28 4 £606 -6.77%
East of England -26 3 - -
North West -40 3 £650 +18.18%
North East - 3 £425 - 1
South East -55 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 (12.22%) Apache Spark
2 10 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.56%) Confluence
4 3 (3.33%) Apache
5 2 (2.22%) nginx
6 1 (1.11%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 88 (97.78%) AWS
2 54 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 41 (45.56%) AWS Lambda
4 39 (43.33%) Serverless
5 34 (37.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (32.22%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (31.11%) Amazon SQS
8 25 (27.78%) GitHub
8 25 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (21.11%) Route 53
12 18 (20.00%) AWS KMS
13 13 (14.44%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (14.44%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (14.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (12.22%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (12.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (12.22%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) HTTP
3 1 (1.11%) Internet
3 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (62.22%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (52.22%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (42.22%) DynamoDB
4 23 (25.56%) MySQL
5 20 (22.22%) NoSQL
6 13 (14.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (14.44%) MongoDB
7 9 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (10.00%) Big Data
7 9 (10.00%) Data Vault
8 8 (8.89%) OLTP
8 8 (8.89%) Redis
8 8 (8.89%) Relational Database
9 7 (7.78%) Flink
9 7 (7.78%) Presto
9 7 (7.78%) Star Schema
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
10 6 (6.67%) Tableau
11 5 (5.56%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 45 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (32.22%) Git
3 15 (16.67%) JUnit
4 14 (15.56%) Maven
4 14 (15.56%) Mockito
4 14 (15.56%) SonarQube
5 11 (12.22%) DbUnit
5 11 (12.22%) jMock
6 9 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (10.00%) GitLab
7 5 (5.56%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.56%) JIRA
8 4 (4.44%) NUnit
8 4 (4.44%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (4.44%) Selenium
9 3 (3.33%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.11%) Claude Code
10 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.11%) Gatling
10 1 (1.11%) Gradle
General
1 20 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 17 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
4 13 (14.44%) Finance
5 3 (3.33%) Banking
5 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Local Government
6 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.11%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.11%) French Language
Job Titles
1 27 (30.00%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) Architect
3 16 (17.78%) Java Developer
4 15 (16.67%) Senior
5 12 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (12.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (11.11%) Data Architect
8 8 (8.89%) AWS Architect
8 8 (8.89%) Scala Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (7.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Data Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) DBA
9 7 (7.78%) Lead
10 6 (6.67%) AWS Developer
10 6 (6.67%) Python Developer
10 6 (6.67%) SQL Developer
11 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
12 4 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.89%) REST
2 25 (27.78%) RESTful
3 23 (25.56%) Spring
4 22 (24.44%) Spring Boot
5 21 (23.33%) Kafka
6 20 (22.22%) JPA
7 18 (20.00%) Hibernate
7 18 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
8 15 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 15 (16.67%) Web Services
9 14 (15.56%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (15.56%) SOAP
9 14 (15.56%) Spring Batch
9 14 (15.56%) Spring Integration
10 12 (13.33%) Node.js
11 11 (12.22%) PowerMock
12 10 (11.11%) OAuth
13 9 (10.00%) .NET
13 9 (10.00%) Bootstrap
13 9 (10.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.44%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (17.78%) Cloud Native
3 10 (11.11%) Replication
4 9 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 6 (6.67%) PACS
5 6 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (4.44%) Mainframe
7 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.22%) VSAM
9 1 (1.11%) Clustering
9 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.11%) DataPower
9 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 33 (36.67%) Linux
2 13 (14.44%) Unix
3 4 (4.44%) zOS
4 3 (3.33%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (62.22%) CI/CD
2 40 (44.44%) DevOps
3 37 (41.11%) Microservices
4 33 (36.67%) Agile
5 32 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (28.89%) Event-Driven
7 24 (26.67%) Containerisation
8 23 (25.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 23 (25.56%) Test Automation
9 22 (24.44%) Observability
9 22 (24.44%) Scrum
10 21 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (21.11%) Analytics
12 17 (18.89%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (18.89%) Kanban
13 15 (16.67%) Data Modelling
13 15 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (16.67%) TDD
14 13 (14.44%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (60.00%) SQL
2 38 (42.22%) Java
3 35 (38.89%) Python
4 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
5 15 (16.67%) C#
6 11 (12.22%) Scala
7 9 (10.00%) Bash
8 7 (7.78%) Groovy
8 7 (7.78%) PowerShell
9 6 (6.67%) Shell Script
10 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
11 4 (4.44%) PL/SQL
12 3 (3.33%) Go
12 3 (3.33%) Perl
13 2 (2.22%) COBOL
13 2 (2.22%) Ruby
14 1 (1.11%) Assembly Language
14 1 (1.11%) JCL
14 1 (1.11%) PHP
14 1 (1.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 31 (34.44%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.22%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.11%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.11%) OCP
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.11%) QA
2 7 (7.78%) ISO 20022
3 6 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.67%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.44%) NIST
5 3 (3.33%) GDPR
6 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 53 (58.89%) Docker
2 10 (11.11%) Postfix
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 43 (47.78%) Terraform
2 41 (45.56%) Grafana
3 17 (18.89%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.22%) Kubernetes
5 8 (8.89%) Kibana
6 4 (4.44%) Ansible
6 4 (4.44%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.44%) Rancher
7 2 (2.22%) linkerd
8 1 (1.11%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (12.22%) Atlassian
2 11 (12.22%) Oracle
3 7 (7.78%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.78%) Splunk
4 6 (6.67%) Confluent
5 5 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.44%) IBM
7 1 (1.11%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.11%) Percona
7 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.11%) Virgin Media