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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 490 490
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +175
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 97 76 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.54% 1.19% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 46 92
10th Percentile £401 £444 £413
25th Percentile £450 £460 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -1.77% +2.52%
75th Percentile £584 £601 £609
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +7.29% -4.00% +2.25%

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 6,292 6,399 7,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.49% 17.93% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 4,223 5,369
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 86 144
10th Percentile £23.10 £18.25 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.25 £22.92 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.72 £33.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.36% -26.92% -7.44%
75th Percentile £69.25 £55.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.30 £65.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -40.45% +13.38%

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 December 2025.

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 2 December 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 -17 64 £513 -14.58% 13
UK excluding London -20 51 £515 +7.29% 11
London +14 41 £513 -9.29% 4
Work from Home -6 36 £525 +6.28% 13
Scotland +3 19 £515 +8.71%
North of England -37 14 £575 - 7
North West -13 13 £575 - 5
Midlands - 13 £463 -
West Midlands - 13 £463 -
South East - 2 £525 - 3
East of England - 2 - - 1
South West -4 1 £450 -25.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 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 14 (14.43%) Confluence
2 13 (13.40%) nginx
3 4 (4.12%) Apache
4 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.03%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (53.61%) Serverless
3 51 (52.58%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (51.55%) Amazon S3
5 33 (34.02%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (30.93%) Amazon ECS
7 29 (29.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 26 (26.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (23.71%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (22.68%) Azure
11 21 (21.65%) GitHub
12 20 (20.62%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (20.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (19.59%) Route 53
14 18 (18.56%) Datadog
15 15 (15.46%) AWS KMS
16 14 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (12.37%) Amazon ELB
17 12 (12.37%) AWS Fargate
17 12 (12.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.46%) DNS
2 14 (14.43%) HTTP
3 12 (12.37%) IMAP
3 12 (12.37%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (12.37%) SMTP
4 10 (10.31%) Firewall
4 10 (10.31%) FTP
4 10 (10.31%) SSH
5 4 (4.12%) Internet
5 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.03%) VPN
6 1 (1.03%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (61.86%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (51.55%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (23.71%) MySQL
4 21 (21.65%) DynamoDB
5 16 (16.49%) Relational Database
6 15 (15.46%) NoSQL
7 13 (13.40%) Redis
8 9 (9.28%) SQL Server
9 8 (8.25%) RDBMS
10 7 (7.22%) MongoDB
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (6.19%) BigQuery
12 5 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (5.15%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (4.12%) DocumentDB
13 4 (4.12%) MariaDB
13 4 (4.12%) Metadata
14 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (3.09%) Oracle Database
14 3 (3.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (39.18%) Jenkins
2 31 (31.96%) Git
3 13 (13.40%) JIRA
4 12 (12.37%) Vagrant
5 8 (8.25%) Maven
5 8 (8.25%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.22%) Cypress.io
7 6 (6.19%) Gradle
8 5 (5.15%) SonarLint
9 4 (4.12%) JUnit
10 3 (3.09%) NUnit
11 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
12 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (1.03%) DbUnit
12 1 (1.03%) Gatling
12 1 (1.03%) Mockito
12 1 (1.03%) Selenium
12 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
12 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 40 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.71%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.46%) Finance
4 10 (10.31%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.06%) Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (19.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (18.56%) Developer
4 17 (17.53%) Senior
5 15 (15.46%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (14.43%) Architect
6 14 (14.43%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (13.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 13 (13.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (12.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (11.34%) Lead
10 10 (10.31%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 8 (8.25%) Java Developer
12 7 (7.22%) Software Engineer
12 7 (7.22%) Technical Leader
13 6 (6.19%) Data Architect
13 6 (6.19%) Java Architect
13 6 (6.19%) Java Technical Architect
13 6 (6.19%) Technical Architect
14 5 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.53%) AWS CDK
1 17 (17.53%) RESTful
2 16 (16.49%) Kafka
2 16 (16.49%) React
3 15 (15.46%) Spring Boot
4 13 (13.40%) .NET
5 12 (12.37%) LDAP
5 12 (12.37%) OAuth
6 11 (11.34%) Node.js
6 11 (11.34%) REST
6 11 (11.34%) Spring
7 10 (10.31%) JWT
8 9 (9.28%) OAuth2
9 8 (8.25%) .NET Core
9 8 (8.25%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (6.19%) CSS
10 6 (6.19%) HTML
11 5 (5.15%) Dropwizard
11 5 (5.15%) J2EE
11 5 (5.15%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 21 (21.65%) Replication
3 6 (6.19%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.15%) N-Tier
4 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.12%) Clustering
5 4 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.06%) NHS
8 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.03%) DataPower
8 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.03%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.62%) Linux
2 12 (12.37%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (12.37%) VMS
3 11 (11.34%) Ubuntu
3 11 (11.34%) Windows
4 1 (1.03%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (57.73%) DevOps
2 49 (50.52%) CI/CD
3 34 (35.05%) Agile
4 30 (30.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (28.87%) Microservices
6 25 (25.77%) Containerisation
7 22 (22.68%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (20.62%) Change Management
8 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (18.56%) Configuration Management
9 18 (18.56%) Observability
10 17 (17.53%) Roadmaps
10 17 (17.53%) Software Engineering
11 16 (16.49%) Cloud Security
11 16 (16.49%) Event-Driven
11 16 (16.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (15.46%) TDD
13 14 (14.43%) Data Modelling
13 14 (14.43%) Mentoring
13 14 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (50.52%) Python
2 35 (36.08%) SQL
3 22 (22.68%) Java
4 16 (16.49%) Groovy
4 16 (16.49%) TypeScript
5 14 (14.43%) PowerShell
6 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.28%) C#
8 8 (8.25%) Bash
9 6 (6.19%) Go
10 2 (2.06%) Ruby
10 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.03%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.03%) COBOL
11 1 (1.03%) JCL
11 1 (1.03%) PHP
11 1 (1.03%) REXX
11 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.53%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.37%) Degree
5 10 (10.31%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.03%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.03%) OCP
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.19%) QA
3 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.03%) GDPR
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.03%) SLA
5 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (50.52%) Docker
2 13 (13.40%) Postfix
3 12 (12.37%) Dovecot
3 12 (12.37%) Squid
4 10 (10.31%) DFS Replication
5 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (59.79%) Terraform
2 30 (30.93%) Grafana
3 26 (26.80%) Kubernetes
4 22 (22.68%) Prometheus
5 12 (12.37%) Nessus
6 10 (10.31%) Ansible
6 10 (10.31%) Proxmox
7 4 (4.12%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.12%) Puppet
7 4 (4.12%) Rancher
8 1 (1.03%) linkerd
8 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) ServiceNow
2 13 (13.40%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle
4 5 (5.15%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.15%) Gigya
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.12%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.06%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.03%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.03%) Google
7 1 (1.03%) IBM
7 1 (1.03%) Informatica
7 1 (1.03%) Pega
7 1 (1.03%) Percona
7 1 (1.03%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.03%) Sage
7 1 (1.03%) SAP
7 1 (1.03%) Talend