Amazon Aurora Job Trends

Amazon Aurora
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Amazon Aurora skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 640 672
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 +207
Permanent jobs citing Amazon Aurora 19 71 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.13% 0.080%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.29% 0.72% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 36
10th Percentile £51,125 £57,500 -
25th Percentile £56,563 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% -11.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £85,313 £84,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £77,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -22.58% -11.43% +59.09%

All Database & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,613 9,851 10,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.18% 17.84% 20.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,191 5,574 8,290
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

Amazon Aurora
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon Aurora relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Amazon Aurora job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Aurora.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon Aurora over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon Aurora in the UK

Amazon Aurora
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon Aurora within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +26 17 £60,000 -23.08% 16
UK excluding London +56 13 £60,000 -22.58% 10
Work from Home +55 8 £73,750 -7.81% 5
North of England +24 4 £60,000 -31.43% 2
London -15 4 £73,750 -13.24% 8
Midlands - 4 - - 1
West Midlands - 4 - - 1
East of England +22 3 £85,000 +9.68% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 -
South East +24 1 £55,000 -20.29% 2
North West +22 1 £57,500 -34.29% 2
South West +4 1 - - 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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
1 4 (21.05%) nginx
2 3 (15.79%) Apache
2 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (57.89%) Amazon S3
3 9 (47.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (42.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (36.84%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (36.84%) Serverless
6 5 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (26.32%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (26.32%) Azure
6 5 (26.32%) GitHub
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (21.05%) AWS KMS
7 4 (21.05%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (21.05%) CloudFront
7 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (21.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) DNS
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
1 4 (21.05%) FTP
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
1 4 (21.05%) IMAP
1 4 (21.05%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (21.05%) SMTP
1 4 (21.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (42.11%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (26.32%) Apache Iceberg
4 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
5 3 (15.79%) Data Vault
5 3 (15.79%) MySQL
5 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.26%) DB2
6 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
6 1 (5.26%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 4 (21.05%) Vagrant
3 1 (5.26%) NUnit
General
1 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
4 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Architect
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Architect
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Data Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Developer
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) LDAP
1 4 (21.05%) Loki
2 3 (15.79%) Pandas
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.26%) Bootstrap
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) jQuery
4 1 (5.26%) JWT
4 1 (5.26%) Laravel
4 1 (5.26%) Next.js
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.26%) React
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Replication
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
2 4 (21.05%) VMS
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) DevOps
2 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (42.11%) Cloud Security
6 6 (31.58%) Change Management
6 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
6 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (26.32%) Agile
7 5 (26.32%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (26.32%) High Availability
7 5 (26.32%) Migration
7 5 (26.32%) Observability
7 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (21.05%) Blue-Green Deployment
8 4 (21.05%) Canary Deployment
8 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (21.05%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) Groovy
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) C#
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
2 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) DFS Replication
2 4 (21.05%) Dovecot
2 4 (21.05%) Postfix
2 4 (21.05%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Terraform
2 9 (47.37%) Grafana
3 8 (42.11%) Prometheus
4 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
5 4 (21.05%) Nessus
5 4 (21.05%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle