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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 436 502
Rank change year-on-year -97 +66 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 102 90 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.31% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.39% 1.64% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 66
10th Percentile £461 £431 £346
25th Percentile £516 £471 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +15.79% -0.84%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £569
90th Percentile £868 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -0.84%
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 7,350 5,479 7,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.07% 18.93% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 3,752 5,235
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 101 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.62 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% -9.60% -40.26%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -107 71 £585 -2.50% 15
London -60 42 £592 -6.85% 7
UK excluding London -99 41 £500 - 6
Work from Home -42 36 £581 +16.28% 8
Midlands -53 18 £475 - 1
West Midlands -57 17 £475 - 1
Scotland -15 8 £473 -5.50%
North of England -74 6 £538 +7.50% 2
South West -27 4 £606 -6.77% 1
North West -40 3 £650 +30.00% 1
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East of England -34 2 - - 1
South East -59 2 £533 +18.33% 1
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 (10.78%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (5.88%) Confluence
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 100 (98.04%) AWS
2 54 (52.94%) AWS Lambda
3 52 (50.98%) Amazon S3
3 52 (50.98%) Serverless
4 42 (41.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 39 (38.24%) GitHub
6 38 (37.25%) Amazon SQS
7 31 (30.39%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (30.39%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (29.41%) Route 53
9 23 (22.55%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (21.57%) Amazon EventBridge
10 22 (21.57%) AWS KMS
11 20 (19.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (13.73%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (12.75%) Amazon MSK
14 13 (12.75%) Azure
15 10 (9.80%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) DNS
2 3 (2.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (63.73%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (58.82%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (47.06%) DynamoDB
4 27 (26.47%) MySQL
5 19 (18.63%) NoSQL
6 13 (12.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (11.76%) MongoDB
8 9 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (8.82%) Big Data
8 9 (8.82%) Data Vault
9 7 (6.86%) Flink
9 7 (6.86%) OLTP
9 7 (6.86%) Presto
9 7 (6.86%) Redis
9 7 (6.86%) Star Schema
10 6 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
10 6 (5.88%) Tableau
11 5 (4.90%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (4.90%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 55 (53.92%) Jenkins
2 39 (38.24%) Git
3 18 (17.65%) JUnit
3 18 (17.65%) Maven
3 18 (17.65%) Mockito
3 18 (17.65%) SonarQube
4 14 (13.73%) DbUnit
5 13 (12.75%) jMock
6 11 (10.78%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (9.80%) Claude Code
8 9 (8.82%) GitLab
9 6 (5.88%) JIRA
10 4 (3.92%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.92%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (3.92%) Selenium
11 3 (2.94%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.98%) NUnit
General
1 26 (25.49%) Public Sector
2 19 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.96%) Banking
5 2 (1.96%) Local Government
6 1 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.98%) Dutch Language
6 1 (0.98%) French Language
6 1 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (29.41%) Developer
2 24 (23.53%) Architect
3 19 (18.63%) Senior
4 18 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 16 (15.69%) AWS Architect
6 9 (8.82%) Data Architect
6 9 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) DBA
7 8 (7.84%) Scala Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Technical Architect
8 7 (6.86%) AWS Developer
8 7 (6.86%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Python Developer
8 7 (6.86%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.86%) SQL Developer
9 6 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Lead
9 6 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (33.33%) RESTful
2 32 (31.37%) REST
3 24 (23.53%) Spring
3 24 (23.53%) Spring Boot
4 23 (22.55%) JPA
5 22 (21.57%) Hibernate
6 20 (19.61%) Kafka
6 20 (19.61%) Spring Cloud
7 18 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (17.65%) AngularJS
7 18 (17.65%) SOAP
7 18 (17.65%) Spring Batch
7 18 (17.65%) Spring Integration
7 18 (17.65%) Web Services
8 15 (14.71%) Node.js
9 14 (13.73%) .NET
10 13 (12.75%) PowerMock
11 11 (10.78%) Bootstrap
12 10 (9.80%) AWS CDK
13 9 (8.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.51%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 15 (14.71%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.84%) Replication
5 7 (6.86%) Hedge funds
6 6 (5.88%) PACS
6 6 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.94%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.94%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.98%) PropTech
10 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.98%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 37 (36.27%) Linux
2 14 (13.73%) Unix
3 4 (3.92%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.94%) zOS
5 2 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (69.61%) CI/CD
2 53 (51.96%) Microservices
3 36 (35.29%) Agile
3 36 (35.29%) DevOps
4 33 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (31.37%) Event-Driven
6 26 (25.49%) Observability
6 26 (25.49%) Scrum
7 22 (21.57%) Performance Tuning
8 21 (20.59%) Containerisation
8 21 (20.59%) Kanban
8 21 (20.59%) Test Automation
9 20 (19.61%) TDD
10 19 (18.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 18 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (17.65%) Technical Debt
12 17 (16.67%) Analytics
12 17 (16.67%) API Design
12 17 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (15.69%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 57 (55.88%) SQL
2 40 (39.22%) Java
3 33 (32.35%) Python
4 21 (20.59%) C#
5 14 (13.73%) JavaScript
6 13 (12.75%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.78%) Scala
8 8 (7.84%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.86%) Bash
9 7 (6.86%) Groovy
9 7 (6.86%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.92%) Perl
10 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.94%) Go
12 2 (1.96%) Ruby
13 1 (0.98%) COBOL
13 1 (0.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 31 (30.39%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.84%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) QA
2 6 (5.88%) ISO 20022
2 6 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.92%) NIST
4 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.96%) GDPR
5 1 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 50 (49.02%) Docker
2 11 (10.78%) Postfix
3 4 (3.92%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (47.06%) Grafana
2 44 (43.14%) Terraform
3 23 (22.55%) Prometheus
4 19 (18.63%) Kubernetes
5 8 (7.84%) Kibana
6 4 (3.92%) Data Guard
7 3 (2.94%) Rancher
8 2 (1.96%) Ansible
8 2 (1.96%) linkerd
9 1 (0.98%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 17 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (13.73%) Atlassian
3 11 (10.78%) Oracle
4 7 (6.86%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.86%) Splunk
5 6 (5.88%) Confluent
6 4 (3.92%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.94%) IBM
8 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.98%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.98%) Virgin Media