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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 502 536
Rank change year-on-year +47 +34 +177
Contract jobs citing Amazon Aurora 75 88 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.35% 1.20% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 78 136
10th Percentile £450 £385 £425
25th Percentile £475 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £679 £565 £538
90th Percentile £700 £689 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £479
% change year-on-year +4.17% +0.21% -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 5,553 7,314 10,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.95% 16.86% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,835 5,221 7,562
10th Percentile £357 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.74%
75th Percentile £643 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 144 188
10th Percentile £19.84 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.98 £34.35
Median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -31.73% +37.86%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.81 £72.80
90th Percentile £75.50 £72.50 £80.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +68 50 £635 +27.00% 50
London +45 33 £635 +33.68% 34
UK excluding London +52 32 £500 +4.17% 20
Work from Home +36 28 £600 +26.32% 26
Scotland -5 19 £500 +5.26% 1
Midlands +19 6 £420 -44.00% 4
West Midlands - 6 £420 - 4
South West +38 2 £650 - 2
East of England +35 2 £550 -16.98%
North West - 2 £550 - 3
North of England - 2 £550 - 3
South East +39 1 £500 -6.54% 10

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 3 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
2 2 (2.67%) GeoServer
2 2 (2.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (49.33%) Amazon S3
3 31 (41.33%) Serverless
4 30 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 30 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (30.67%) Route 53
7 21 (28.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (22.67%) CloudFront
9 14 (18.67%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (17.33%) GitHub
11 12 (16.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 12 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (10.67%) AWS CodePipeline
13 6 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (8.00%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (8.00%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (6.67%) Azure
15 4 (5.33%) AWS KMS
16 3 (4.00%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) DNS
1 9 (12.00%) HTTP
1 9 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (9.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (53.33%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (25.33%) NoSQL
4 14 (18.67%) DynamoDB
4 14 (18.67%) MySQL
5 13 (17.33%) DocumentDB
6 12 (16.00%) Redis
6 12 (16.00%) Relational Database
7 7 (9.33%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (8.00%) SQL Server
9 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
10 4 (5.33%) Big Data
10 4 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (4.00%) GIS
12 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
12 2 (2.67%) Impala
12 2 (2.67%) OLTP
12 2 (2.67%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 30 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (12.00%) Storybook
3 7 (9.33%) Cypress.io
3 7 (9.33%) JUnit
3 7 (9.33%) Maven
4 5 (6.67%) Git
4 5 (6.67%) Mockito
4 5 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (5.33%) DbUnit
5 4 (5.33%) GitLab
5 4 (5.33%) jMock
6 3 (4.00%) JIRA
6 3 (4.00%) webpack
7 2 (2.67%) Ant
7 2 (2.67%) Postman
7 2 (2.67%) Selenium
8 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 20 (26.67%) Finance
2 14 (18.67%) Public Sector
3 12 (16.00%) Banking
3 12 (16.00%) Retail Banking
4 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.33%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.67%) Military
7 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (37.33%) Developer
2 12 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Senior
5 8 (10.67%) Architect
5 8 (10.67%) Lead
6 7 (9.33%) C# Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Java Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (9.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) DBA
7 6 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) React Developer
9 4 (5.33%) AWS Developer
9 4 (5.33%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Data Migration Lead
9 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.00%) RESTful
2 19 (25.33%) GraphQL
3 18 (24.00%) React
4 12 (16.00%) AWS CDK
5 11 (14.67%) Spring Boot
6 10 (13.33%) CSS
6 10 (13.33%) Jest
6 10 (13.33%) REST
6 10 (13.33%) Spring
7 9 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (12.00%) Tailwind CSS
8 8 (10.67%) Hibernate
9 7 (9.33%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (9.33%) AngularJS
9 7 (9.33%) JPA
9 7 (9.33%) Node.js
9 7 (9.33%) SOAP
9 7 (9.33%) Web Services
10 6 (8.00%) Bootstrap
10 6 (8.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Derivative
2 11 (14.67%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (9.33%) Cloud Native
4 6 (8.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.00%) Replication
7 2 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.67%) iPad
7 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) CentOS
2 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 27 (36.00%) Agile
2 27 (36.00%) DevOps
3 25 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 23 (30.67%) Microservices
5 22 (29.33%) Containerisation
6 15 (20.00%) TDD
7 13 (17.33%) SOLID
8 12 (16.00%) Asset Management
8 12 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (16.00%) Secure Coding
9 10 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (12.00%) Configuration Management
10 9 (12.00%) Migration
10 9 (12.00%) Unit Testing
11 8 (10.67%) DevSecOps
11 8 (10.67%) Scrum
11 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (9.33%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.00%) SQL
2 21 (28.00%) TypeScript
3 20 (26.67%) Java
4 18 (24.00%) Python
5 14 (18.67%) C#
6 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.33%) Bash
7 4 (5.33%) Scala
8 2 (2.67%) Go
8 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.67%) R
8 2 (2.67%) Rust
8 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
3 1 (1.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (36.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) Postfix
3 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (29.33%) Terraform
2 20 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 16 (21.33%) Grafana
4 14 (18.67%) Prometheus
5 11 (14.67%) Ansible
6 10 (13.33%) Puppet
7 9 (12.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.33%) Istio
8 1 (1.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (12.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (8.00%) Atlassian
2 6 (8.00%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (8.00%) Oracle
3 4 (5.33%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.67%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.67%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.67%) Informatica
4 2 (2.67%) StreamSets
4 2 (2.67%) Talend
4 2 (2.67%) VMware
5 1 (1.33%) Virgin Media