Amazon Athena Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Athena
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon Athena skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 230 151
Rank change year-on-year -122 -79 +261
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 97 130 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.98% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.66% 4.64% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 123 269
10th Percentile £411 £513 £558
25th Percentile £450 £613 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £638 £875 £888
90th Percentile £705 - -
England median daily rate £500 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -33.33% -6.25% +23.08%

All Database & BI Skills
London

Amazon Athena 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 in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,651 2,800 3,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.20% 21.19% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,482 1,945 2,709
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.08% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.75
England median hourly rate £38.38 £40.25 £34.47
% change year-on-year -4.65% +16.77% -37.34%

Amazon Athena
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon Athena relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Amazon Athena job vacancy trend in London

Amazon Athena
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon Athena.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Athena in London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Athena in London

Amazon Athena
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon Athena within the London region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Central London -6 18 £600 +23.08% 3
West London - 2 £625 -
East London - 1 £400 -
Amazon Athena
England

Amazon Athena
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (11.34%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (11.34%) Apache Spark
3 9 (9.28%) Apache
4 4 (4.12%) SAS
5 2 (2.06%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 92 (94.85%) AWS
2 83 (85.57%) Amazon S3
3 70 (72.16%) Serverless
4 68 (70.10%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (28.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (25.77%) AWS Step Functions
7 23 (23.71%) Power Platform
8 22 (22.68%) dbt
9 20 (20.62%) Amazon EMR
10 17 (17.53%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (16.49%) GitHub
12 15 (15.46%) Azure
13 11 (11.34%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (11.34%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (10.31%) Amazon EventBridge
14 10 (10.31%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (9.28%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (8.25%) Amazon Bedrock
17 7 (7.22%) Amazon SageMaker
18 6 (6.19%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Firewall
1 2 (2.06%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (41.24%) Amazon Redshift
2 22 (22.68%) Power BI
3 21 (21.65%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (19.59%) Data Lake
5 14 (14.43%) Apache Iceberg
6 13 (13.40%) DynamoDB
7 12 (12.37%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (11.34%) Tableau
9 7 (7.22%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (7.22%) Metadata
10 6 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (5.15%) Data Vault
11 5 (5.15%) OLTP
11 5 (5.15%) Star Schema
12 4 (4.12%) BigQuery
13 3 (3.09%) Big Data
13 3 (3.09%) Delta Lake
13 3 (3.09%) Parquet
13 3 (3.09%) PowerCenter
13 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (35.05%) Git
2 25 (25.77%) GitLab
3 18 (18.56%) JIRA
4 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.15%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.12%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.09%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.09%) JUnit
7 3 (3.09%) Mockito
7 3 (3.09%) Postman
8 1 (1.03%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (24.74%) Finance
2 20 (20.62%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.53%) Public Sector
4 13 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Banking
6 6 (6.19%) Back Office
7 3 (3.09%) Front Office
7 3 (3.09%) Military
8 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Law
8 2 (2.06%) Police
9 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.03%) Legal
9 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (49.48%) Data Engineer
2 26 (26.80%) Senior
3 24 (24.74%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (20.62%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (15.46%) AWS Data Engineer
6 12 (12.37%) Architect
7 10 (10.31%) Lead
8 7 (7.22%) Informatica Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) AWS Architect
9 6 (6.19%) Data Architect
9 6 (6.19%) Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Analyst
11 4 (4.12%) Data Analyst
11 4 (4.12%) Data Scientist
11 4 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.09%) AWS Developer
12 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Architect
12 3 (3.09%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (50.52%) Terraform
2 23 (23.71%) PySpark
3 13 (13.40%) Kafka
4 12 (12.37%) React
5 4 (4.12%) PyTorch
5 4 (4.12%) YAML
6 3 (3.09%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (3.09%) Gherkin
6 3 (3.09%) Great Expectations
6 3 (3.09%) Next.js
6 3 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.09%) SOAP
6 3 (3.09%) Spring
6 3 (3.09%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.09%) WireMock
7 2 (2.06%) Apache Avro
7 2 (2.06%) Pandas
7 2 (2.06%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (2.06%) scikit-learn
7 2 (2.06%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.09%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.06%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.06%) NHS
4 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.06%) PACS
4 2 (2.06%) Pricing Data
4 2 (2.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.03%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.03%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Unix
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.58%) CI/CD
2 46 (47.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (43.30%) Data Engineering
4 40 (41.24%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (35.05%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (34.02%) Data Modelling
7 32 (32.99%) Analytics
8 31 (31.96%) ETL
9 26 (26.80%) Agile
10 25 (25.77%) AI
10 25 (25.77%) DevOps
11 24 (24.74%) Test Automation
12 22 (22.68%) Machine Learning
13 18 (18.56%) Data Governance
14 17 (17.53%) Data Architecture
14 17 (17.53%) Event-Driven
15 16 (16.49%) Dimensional Modelling
15 16 (16.49%) Migration
16 12 (12.37%) Data Transformation
16 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (70.10%) Python
2 54 (55.67%) SQL
3 12 (12.37%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.19%) Bash
5 6 (6.19%) C#
6 5 (5.15%) Java
7 4 (4.12%) Scala
8 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.03%) COBOL
9 1 (1.03%) PHP
9 1 (1.03%) SAS Macro
9 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (36.08%) Security Cleared
2 34 (35.05%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.31%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.06%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (40.21%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.25%) QA
3 3 (3.09%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) SLA
4 2 (2.06%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (16.49%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.34%) Grafana
3 6 (6.19%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.15%) Ansible
5 4 (4.12%) Puppet
5 4 (4.12%) Salt
6 1 (1.03%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Informatica
2 8 (8.25%) Databricks
3 7 (7.22%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.19%) SnapLogic
5 5 (5.15%) Splunk
6 4 (4.12%) Oracle
7 2 (2.06%) Confluent
7 2 (2.06%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.06%) Google
8 1 (1.03%) Denodo
8 1 (1.03%) IBM
8 1 (1.03%) OpenAI