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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 446 501
Rank change year-on-year -34 +55 +125
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 94 78 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.53% 1.36% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 53 79
10th Percentile £413 £450 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +3.75% +1.20%
75th Percentile £605 £688 £598
90th Percentile £670 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +8.62% -1.20% +1.11%

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 6,144 5,739 7,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 18.21% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,236 3,784 5,020
10th Percentile £330 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £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 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 76 151
10th Percentile £19.60 £19.71 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.12
Median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £64.52
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.88 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -37.74% -12.08%

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 12 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 12 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 -37 71 £575 -14.81% 10
London -3 49 £548 -18.89% 3
UK excluding London -34 40 £537 +8.62% 6
Work from Home -21 31 £529 +7.10% 5
North of England -35 13 £575 -4.17% 3
North West -19 12 £575 -4.17% 3
Scotland -9 10 £510 +6.25%
Midlands - 9 £475 -
West Midlands - 9 £475 -
South West -17 4 £606 +1.00% 1
East of England -18 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £525 - 1
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 11 (11.70%) Confluence
2 10 (10.64%) nginx
3 3 (3.19%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.06%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (9.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (60.64%) Serverless
3 56 (59.57%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (52.13%) Amazon S3
5 32 (34.04%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (31.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (29.79%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (28.72%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (26.60%) GitHub
10 24 (25.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (24.47%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (21.28%) Azure
13 19 (20.21%) Route 53
13 19 (20.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (19.15%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (14.89%) Amazon MSK
15 14 (14.89%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (13.83%) AWS Fargate
16 13 (13.83%) Datadog
17 12 (12.77%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.15%) DNS
2 13 (13.83%) HTTP
3 9 (9.57%) Firewall
3 9 (9.57%) FTP
3 9 (9.57%) IMAP
3 9 (9.57%) OpenLDAP
3 9 (9.57%) SMTP
3 9 (9.57%) SSH
4 4 (4.26%) Internet
4 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (1.06%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (63.83%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (53.19%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (28.72%) DynamoDB
3 27 (28.72%) MySQL
4 19 (20.21%) NoSQL
5 17 (18.09%) Relational Database
6 16 (17.02%) Redis
7 9 (9.57%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (9.57%) MongoDB
8 8 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (8.51%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (8.51%) DocumentDB
8 8 (8.51%) RDBMS
9 6 (6.38%) SQL Server
10 5 (5.32%) BigQuery
11 4 (4.26%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (4.26%) DB2
11 4 (4.26%) OLTP
12 3 (3.19%) Star Schema
12 3 (3.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (40.43%) Jenkins
2 26 (27.66%) Git
3 10 (10.64%) JIRA
4 9 (9.57%) Vagrant
5 6 (6.38%) GitLab
5 6 (6.38%) Gradle
5 6 (6.38%) Maven
5 6 (6.38%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.32%) SonarLint
7 4 (4.26%) NUnit
8 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.19%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (2.13%) JUnit
10 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.06%) Gatling
10 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 35 (37.23%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.09%) Public Sector
3 14 (14.89%) Finance
4 9 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (23.40%) Architect
2 20 (21.28%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (18.09%) Senior
4 16 (17.02%) Developer
4 16 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Java Architect
8 9 (9.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (9.57%) Data Architect
9 8 (8.51%) AWS Architect
10 7 (7.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (7.45%) Lead
10 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) DBA
11 6 (6.38%) Java Developer
11 6 (6.38%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (6.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.53%) Kafka
2 18 (19.15%) RESTful
2 18 (19.15%) Spring Boot
3 15 (15.96%) REST
4 14 (14.89%) OAuth
4 14 (14.89%) Spring
5 13 (13.83%) .NET
5 13 (13.83%) AWS CDK
5 13 (13.83%) React
6 11 (11.70%) JWT
6 11 (11.70%) Node.js
6 11 (11.70%) OAuth2
7 9 (9.57%) .NET Core
7 9 (9.57%) LDAP
8 8 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (5.32%) Dropwizard
9 5 (5.32%) J2EE
9 5 (5.32%) JPA
9 5 (5.32%) Micronaut
10 4 (4.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.15%) Replication
3 8 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.32%) N-Tier
5 5 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.19%) PACS
7 3 (3.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (2.13%) Clustering
8 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.06%) DataPower
9 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.06%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.96%) Linux
2 11 (11.70%) Windows
3 10 (10.64%) Ubuntu
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (9.57%) VMS
5 2 (2.13%) zOS
6 1 (1.06%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (58.51%) DevOps
2 51 (54.26%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.85%) Microservices
5 26 (27.66%) Containerisation
6 24 (25.53%) Event-Driven
6 24 (25.53%) Observability
7 23 (24.47%) Agile
7 23 (24.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 23 (24.47%) Performance Tuning
8 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (20.21%) Roadmaps
10 17 (18.09%) Change Management
10 17 (18.09%) Data Modelling
11 15 (15.96%) Configuration Management
11 15 (15.96%) Software Engineering
12 14 (14.89%) Design Patterns
12 14 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (13.83%) AI
13 13 (13.83%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 44 (46.81%) Python
2 39 (41.49%) SQL
3 20 (21.28%) Java
4 13 (13.83%) Groovy
5 11 (11.70%) PowerShell
5 11 (11.70%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.64%) C#
7 8 (8.51%) Bash
8 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.26%) Go
10 3 (3.19%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.13%) PHP
11 2 (2.13%) Ruby
11 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.06%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.06%) COBOL
12 1 (1.06%) JCL
12 1 (1.06%) REXX
12 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.02%) AWS Certification
4 11 (11.70%) Degree
5 9 (9.57%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.06%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.06%) OCP
7 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) QA
2 9 (9.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.26%) ISO 20022
3 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.26%) NIST
3 4 (4.26%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.06%) GDPR
5 1 (1.06%) SLA
5 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (53.19%) Docker
2 9 (9.57%) DFS Replication
2 9 (9.57%) Dovecot
2 9 (9.57%) Postfix
2 9 (9.57%) Squid
3 3 (3.19%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (59.57%) Terraform
2 27 (28.72%) Grafana
3 26 (27.66%) Kubernetes
4 19 (20.21%) Prometheus
5 10 (10.64%) Ansible
6 9 (9.57%) Nessus
6 9 (9.57%) Proxmox
7 4 (4.26%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.26%) Puppet
7 4 (4.26%) Rancher
8 3 (3.19%) Data Guard
9 1 (1.06%) linkerd
9 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (13.83%) ServiceNow
2 9 (9.57%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (5.32%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.32%) Gigya
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle
4 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.19%) Confluent
6 2 (2.13%) IBM
7 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.06%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.06%) Percona
7 1 (1.06%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.06%) Sage
7 1 (1.06%) SAP