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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 438 510
Rank change year-on-year -112 +72 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 120 112 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.34% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.47% 1.89% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 82 37
10th Percentile £419 £413 £408
25th Percentile £500 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.21% -1.20%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £553
90th Percentile £844 £653 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £494 £480
% change year-on-year -0.71% +2.81% -
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 8,137 5,916 7,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.17% 18.07% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,423 3,970 4,922
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -3.27%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
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 252 96 100
10th Percentile £15.77 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £22.96 £29.00 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.25 £35.50 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% +6.88% -39.61%
75th Percentile £60.38 £62.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £69.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -42.86%

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 25 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 25 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 -102 77 £543 +8.50% 11
London -59 53 £550 -8.33% 7
Work from Home -71 44 £582 +16.35% 5
UK excluding London -125 39 £490 -0.71% 8
Scotland -28 16 £475 -3.85% 2
Midlands -74 9 - -
West Midlands -58 8 - -
North of England -70 6 £538 +7.50%
East of England -19 3 £350 - 1
North West -45 3 £650 +30.00%
North East - 3 £425 -
South West - 3 £585 - 3
South East -66 2 £533 +18.33% 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 11 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 9 (7.50%) Confluence
4 4 (3.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (45.00%) AWS Lambda
3 52 (43.33%) Serverless
4 44 (36.67%) Amazon S3
5 43 (35.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 42 (35.00%) GitHub
7 34 (28.33%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (25.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 29 (24.17%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (22.50%) AWS KMS
11 25 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
13 19 (15.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (15.83%) Route 53
14 18 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (15.00%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (14.17%) Azure
16 12 (10.00%) SaaS
17 8 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) DNS
2 2 (1.67%) FTP
2 2 (1.67%) HTTP
2 2 (1.67%) IMAP
2 2 (1.67%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (1.67%) SMTP
2 2 (1.67%) SSH
3 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (64.17%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (58.33%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (32.50%) MySQL
4 35 (29.17%) DynamoDB
5 18 (15.00%) MongoDB
6 15 (12.50%) NoSQL
7 12 (10.00%) Redis
8 11 (9.17%) SQL Server
9 9 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (7.50%) Big Data
10 7 (5.83%) Presto
11 6 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (5.00%) MariaDB
12 5 (4.17%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (4.17%) OLTP
13 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
13 4 (3.33%) Data Vault
13 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (3.33%) Db2
14 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 42 (35.00%) Git
3 16 (13.33%) Claude Code
4 12 (10.00%) Maven
5 10 (8.33%) SonarQube
6 9 (7.50%) JIRA
6 9 (7.50%) JUnit
6 9 (7.50%) Mockito
7 7 (5.83%) DbUnit
8 6 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (5.00%) jMock
9 5 (4.17%) GitLab
10 4 (3.33%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.33%) Selenium
11 3 (2.50%) Gradle
11 3 (2.50%) WebDriver
11 3 (2.50%) webpack
12 2 (1.67%) Flyway
12 2 (1.67%) Liquibase
12 2 (1.67%) Vagrant
General
1 38 (31.67%) Public Sector
2 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.83%) Finance
5 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.67%) Banking
6 2 (1.67%) Billing
6 2 (1.67%) Local Government
7 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.83%) French Language
7 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (23.33%) Senior
2 26 (21.67%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (20.00%) DBA
4 23 (19.17%) Developer
5 17 (14.17%) Architect
6 16 (13.33%) Administrator
7 15 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (9.17%) Data Engineer
8 11 (9.17%) Lambda Engineer
9 10 (8.33%) AWS Architect
9 10 (8.33%) Java Developer
9 10 (8.33%) Technical Architect
10 9 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (7.50%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 8 (6.67%) Scala Engineer
12 7 (5.83%) AWS Developer
12 7 (5.83%) Lead
12 7 (5.83%) Senior Developer
12 7 (5.83%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (50.83%) Terraform
2 31 (25.83%) RESTful
3 30 (25.00%) REST
4 22 (18.33%) Spring
4 22 (18.33%) Spring Boot
5 19 (15.83%) .NET
6 17 (14.17%) AWS CDK
7 16 (13.33%) Node.js
8 13 (10.83%) AngularJS
9 12 (10.00%) CSS
9 12 (10.00%) HTML
9 12 (10.00%) React
10 11 (9.17%) Kafka
11 10 (8.33%) .NET Core
12 9 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
12 9 (7.50%) GraphQL
12 9 (7.50%) Hibernate
12 9 (7.50%) JPA
12 9 (7.50%) Spring Batch
12 9 (7.50%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.00%) Replication
2 19 (15.83%) Cloud Native
3 18 (15.00%) Product Ownership
4 17 (14.17%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.83%) Hedge funds
6 6 (5.00%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.67%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.67%) PACS
9 2 (1.67%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.67%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.83%) Clustering
10 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.83%) PropTech
10 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (30.00%) Linux
2 14 (11.67%) Unix
3 9 (7.50%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.50%) Windows
5 2 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.83%) VMS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 52 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (40.83%) Microservices
4 41 (34.17%) Agile
5 38 (31.67%) Performance Tuning
6 35 (29.17%) DevOps
7 30 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 30 (25.00%) Observability
8 27 (22.50%) Data Modelling
9 25 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (20.00%) Technical Debt
11 23 (19.17%) API Design
11 23 (19.17%) Test Automation
12 22 (18.33%) High Availability
13 21 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 18 (15.00%) Scrum
16 17 (14.17%) Kanban
16 17 (14.17%) Root Cause Analysis
16 17 (14.17%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (50.00%) SQL
2 41 (34.17%) Java
3 40 (33.33%) Python
4 25 (20.83%) C#
5 22 (18.33%) TypeScript
6 18 (15.00%) JavaScript
7 15 (12.50%) Groovy
8 12 (10.00%) PowerShell
9 11 (9.17%) Bash
10 10 (8.33%) Scala
10 10 (8.33%) Shell Script
11 7 (5.83%) Perl
12 2 (1.67%) Go
12 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (35.83%) SC Cleared
3 21 (17.50%) AWS Certification
4 12 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 9 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.33%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.67%) GDPR
3 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.83%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (40.00%) Docker
2 7 (5.83%) Postfix
3 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.67%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.67%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.67%) Squid
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (38.33%) Grafana
2 26 (21.67%) Prometheus
3 17 (14.17%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.50%) Kibana
5 3 (2.50%) Rancher
6 2 (1.67%) Ansible
6 2 (1.67%) linkerd
6 2 (1.67%) Nessus
6 2 (1.67%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.83%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle
4 7 (5.83%) Atlassian
4 7 (5.83%) Splunk
5 6 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.67%) Confluent
6 2 (1.67%) Databricks
6 2 (1.67%) Informatica
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.67%) Talend
7 1 (0.83%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.83%) Google
7 1 (0.83%) IBM