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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 438 483
Rank change year-on-year -118 +45 +71
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 73 71 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.00% 1.28% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 50 83
10th Percentile £413 £449 £344
25th Percentile £450 £484 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +26.32% -0.84%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £575
90th Percentile £670 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £578 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +15.60% +4.17% +0.16%

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 7,266 5,548 7,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.84% 18.99% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,997 3,849 5,159
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £649 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £488
% change year-on-year -2.06% -0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 109 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.03 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.44
90th Percentile £83.65 £76.50 £71.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £36.75
% change year-on-year +58.03% -13.90% -33.18%

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 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

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 10 April 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 -95 58 £596 -8.38% 16
London -69 33 £580 -14.07% 7
UK excluding London -102 33 £578 +15.60% 14
Work from Home -47 16 £550 +7.74% 14
West Midlands -56 12 £475 +13.10% 1
Midlands -57 12 £475 +13.10% 1
North of England -73 6 £600 +9.09% 2
Scotland -1 5 £450 -10.00% 1
South West -26 4 £606 -6.77% 2
North West -29 4 £650 +18.18% 2
East of England -34 3 - - 2
South East - 2 £525 - 5
North East - 2 £425 -
Wales - 1 £500 - 1

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 3 (4.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) CICS
3 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 71 (97.26%) AWS
2 37 (50.68%) Amazon S3
3 35 (47.95%) Serverless
4 32 (43.84%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (36.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (35.62%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (31.51%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (30.14%) GitHub
8 22 (30.14%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (28.77%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (23.29%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (23.29%) Route 53
11 13 (17.81%) Amazon MSK
11 13 (17.81%) AWS KMS
12 11 (15.07%) Amazon EventBridge
13 10 (13.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (13.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (12.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 9 (12.33%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (12.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (60.27%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (53.42%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (49.32%) DynamoDB
4 20 (27.40%) MySQL
5 14 (19.18%) NoSQL
6 10 (13.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (12.33%) Redis
8 8 (10.96%) Relational Database
9 7 (9.59%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (9.59%) Data Vault
9 7 (9.59%) MongoDB
10 6 (8.22%) DocumentDB
10 6 (8.22%) OLTP
11 5 (6.85%) DB2
11 5 (6.85%) Flink
11 5 (6.85%) Star Schema
12 4 (5.48%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (5.48%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (5.48%) MariaDB
12 4 (5.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (41.10%) Jenkins
2 23 (31.51%) Git
3 13 (17.81%) JUnit
3 13 (17.81%) Maven
4 12 (16.44%) Mockito
4 12 (16.44%) SonarQube
5 9 (12.33%) DbUnit
5 9 (12.33%) jMock
6 7 (9.59%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (9.59%) GitLab
7 4 (5.48%) NUnit
7 4 (5.48%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.74%) JIRA
9 2 (2.74%) Selenium
9 2 (2.74%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.37%) Gatling
10 1 (1.37%) Gradle
General
1 16 (21.92%) Public Sector
2 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.70%) Finance
4 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.37%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.37%) French Language
7 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (34.25%) Developer
2 17 (23.29%) Senior
3 15 (20.55%) Architect
3 15 (20.55%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.96%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Data Architect
5 7 (9.59%) DBA
6 6 (8.22%) AWS Architect
6 6 (8.22%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Lead
6 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.48%) AWS Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (5.48%) Java Architect
8 4 (5.48%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.48%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.88%) REST
2 23 (31.51%) Spring
3 22 (30.14%) Kafka
3 22 (30.14%) Spring Boot
4 18 (24.66%) JPA
4 18 (24.66%) RESTful
5 16 (21.92%) Hibernate
5 16 (21.92%) Spring Cloud
6 14 (19.18%) AngularJS
7 13 (17.81%) Web Services
8 12 (16.44%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (16.44%) Node.js
8 12 (16.44%) SOAP
8 12 (16.44%) Spring Batch
8 12 (16.44%) Spring Integration
9 10 (13.70%) OAuth
10 9 (12.33%) .NET
10 9 (12.33%) OAuth2
10 9 (12.33%) PowerMock
11 8 (10.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.03%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (23.29%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.96%) Replication
4 4 (5.48%) Hedge funds
4 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.48%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.48%) PACS
4 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.74%) VSAM
6 1 (1.37%) Clustering
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) DataPower
6 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) NHS
6 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.03%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Unix
3 4 (5.48%) zOS
4 2 (2.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (63.01%) CI/CD
2 37 (50.68%) DevOps
3 33 (45.21%) Microservices
4 24 (32.88%) Event-Driven
4 24 (32.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (30.14%) Agile
5 22 (30.14%) Containerisation
5 22 (30.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 20 (27.40%) Observability
7 17 (23.29%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (20.55%) Analytics
8 15 (20.55%) TDD
9 14 (19.18%) Scrum
10 13 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (17.81%) Test Automation
11 12 (16.44%) Data Modelling
12 10 (13.70%) Kanban
12 10 (13.70%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (13.70%) Roadmaps
13 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (57.53%) SQL
2 25 (34.25%) Java
3 20 (27.40%) Python
4 11 (15.07%) C#
5 9 (12.33%) Bash
6 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.85%) Groovy
8 4 (5.48%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.48%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.74%) COBOL
10 2 (2.74%) Go
10 2 (2.74%) Ruby
11 1 (1.37%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.37%) JCL
11 1 (1.37%) PHP
11 1 (1.37%) REXX
11 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (32.88%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.37%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.37%) OCP
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) QA
2 6 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.22%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.85%) ISO 20022
4 4 (5.48%) NIST
5 3 (4.11%) GDPR
6 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 40 (54.79%) Docker
2 8 (10.96%) Postfix
3 4 (5.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 30 (41.10%) Terraform
2 26 (35.62%) Grafana
3 11 (15.07%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.07%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.85%) Rancher
5 4 (5.48%) Data Guard
6 3 (4.11%) Ansible
7 1 (1.37%) linkerd
7 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (12.33%) Atlassian
2 9 (12.33%) Oracle
3 5 (6.85%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.48%) Confluent
4 4 (5.48%) IBM
5 1 (1.37%) GoldenSource
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.37%) Percona
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.37%) Virgin Media