Amazon Aurora Contracts

Amazon Aurora
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon Aurora skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon Aurora over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 509 526
Rank change year-on-year +51 +17 +143
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 95 71 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.17% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.60% 0.95% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 58 133
10th Percentile £412 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £479
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +0.94% -8.76%
75th Percentile £635 £594 £538
90th Percentile £654 £704 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +4.63% -0.84% -6.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,950 7,487 9,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.26% 17.74% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,035 5,341 6,768
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 133 171
10th Percentile £19.56 £14.05 £21.25
25th Percentile £25.94 £20.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.25 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -30.00% +35.04%
75th Percentile £64.63 £51.91 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.62 £71.50 £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £32.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.39% -37.62% +50.00%

Amazon Aurora
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon Aurora as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon Aurora.

Daily rate trend for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Aurora over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Top 12 Contract 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 17 July 2025. 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 +76 55 £500 -9.09% 48
UK excluding London +36 49 £497 +4.63% 17
Work from Home +38 46 £500 +4.17% 28
London +37 31 £635 +15.45% 42
Scotland -3 25 £497 +7.46% 7
Midlands - 17 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 17 £475 - 1
North of England +6 3 £500 - 3
North West +5 3 £500 - 2
South East +33 2 £450 -15.89% 4
East of England +14 1 £550 -16.98%
South West - 1 £650 -

Amazon Aurora
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.32%) Confluence
2 5 (5.26%) nginx
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (47.37%) Amazon S3
3 40 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
4 35 (36.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 34 (35.79%) Serverless
6 33 (34.74%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (27.37%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (20.00%) Route 53
10 18 (18.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (16.84%) GitHub
12 15 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (13.68%) AWS KMS
14 9 (9.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (8.42%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (8.42%) Datadog
16 6 (6.32%) Amazon Cognito
16 6 (6.32%) CloudFront
17 5 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
18 4 (4.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.68%) DNS
1 13 (13.68%) HTTP
2 12 (12.63%) TCP/IP
3 10 (10.53%) Internet
4 3 (3.16%) IMAP
4 3 (3.16%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (3.16%) SMTP
5 1 (1.05%) Firewall
5 1 (1.05%) FTP
5 1 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (61.05%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (55.79%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (21.05%) DynamoDB
4 15 (15.79%) MySQL
5 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 9 (9.47%) Relational Database
7 8 (8.42%) SQL Server
8 7 (7.37%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (7.37%) MariaDB
9 6 (6.32%) DocumentDB
9 6 (6.32%) MongoDB
9 6 (6.32%) Oracle Database
9 6 (6.32%) Redis
10 4 (4.21%) GIS
11 3 (3.16%) Big Data
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
12 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (2.11%) Power BI
13 1 (1.05%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 49 (51.58%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.11%) Git
3 17 (17.89%) SonarQube
4 16 (16.84%) Maven
5 15 (15.79%) JUnit
6 11 (11.58%) Cypress.io
6 11 (11.58%) Storybook
7 10 (10.53%) Mockito
8 8 (8.42%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (8.42%) DbUnit
8 8 (8.42%) jMock
9 6 (6.32%) JIRA
10 4 (4.21%) GitLab
11 3 (3.16%) Selenium
11 3 (3.16%) Vagrant
12 2 (2.11%) Postman
13 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
13 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
13 1 (1.05%) WebDriver
13 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 27 (28.42%) Public Sector
2 14 (14.74%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Banking
5 4 (4.21%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.11%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (40.00%) Developer
2 19 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 17 (17.89%) Senior
4 16 (16.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (14.74%) Lead
6 13 (13.68%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (8.42%) DBA
8 8 (8.42%) Software Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (6.32%) Architect
11 5 (5.26%) Administrator
11 5 (5.26%) AWS Developer
11 5 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Lead Developer
11 5 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (5.26%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.26%) React
2 23 (24.21%) RESTful
2 23 (24.21%) Spring
3 22 (23.16%) Spring Boot
4 19 (20.00%) REST
5 18 (18.95%) AWS CDK
5 18 (18.95%) Hibernate
6 16 (16.84%) ActiveMQ
6 16 (16.84%) JPA
6 16 (16.84%) SOAP
7 14 (14.74%) Web Services
8 13 (13.68%) AngularJS
8 13 (13.68%) CSS
8 13 (13.68%) Spring Batch
8 13 (13.68%) Spring Integration
9 12 (12.63%) Bootstrap
9 12 (12.63%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (11.58%) GraphQL
11 10 (10.53%) Jest
11 10 (10.53%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 10 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.32%) Replication
3 5 (5.26%) Clustering
4 4 (4.21%) Derivative
5 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.05%) NHS
7 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.32%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (3.16%) VMS
3 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.37%) DevOps
2 41 (43.16%) Agile
3 37 (38.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (37.89%) Microservices
5 34 (35.79%) CI/CD
6 31 (32.63%) Containerisation
7 22 (23.16%) Continuous Integration
7 22 (23.16%) TDD
8 19 (20.00%) Scrum
9 15 (15.79%) Configuration Management
10 14 (14.74%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (13.68%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (13.68%) Migration
11 13 (13.68%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.58%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (10.53%) BDD
13 10 (10.53%) Cost Management
13 10 (10.53%) Kanban
13 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (9.47%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.79%) Java
2 27 (28.42%) SQL
3 26 (27.37%) TypeScript
4 22 (23.16%) Python
5 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.32%) C#
7 5 (5.26%) Go
8 3 (3.16%) Bash
8 3 (3.16%) Groovy
8 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.11%) R
9 2 (2.11%) Rust
9 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.05%) Ruby
10 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.16%) Degree
4 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.11%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.11%) QA
5 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (45.26%) Docker
2 11 (11.58%) Postfix
3 3 (3.16%) Dovecot
3 3 (3.16%) Squid
4 1 (1.05%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 38 (40.00%) Terraform
2 30 (31.58%) Grafana
3 29 (30.53%) Kubernetes
4 25 (26.32%) Prometheus
5 13 (13.68%) Ansible
6 12 (12.63%) Progress Chef
6 12 (12.63%) Puppet
7 3 (3.16%) Nessus
8 1 (1.05%) Istio
8 1 (1.05%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (13.68%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (12.63%) Oracle
2 12 (12.63%) Red Hat
3 10 (10.53%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.16%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.11%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.05%) Google
6 1 (1.05%) Informatica
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.05%) Pega
6 1 (1.05%) Talend
6 1 (1.05%) Virgin Media