Amazon Athena Contract Job Trends

Amazon Athena
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon Athena skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 345 511
Rank change year-on-year -99 +166 +146
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 143 217 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.63% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.26% 3.52% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 188 75
10th Percentile £406 £488 £465
25th Percentile £450 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £825 £875 £788
90th Percentile - £888 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £525 £578
% change year-on-year -17.14% -9.09% -15.07%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,329 6,164 7,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.37% 17.98% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,368 4,079 5,245
10th Percentile £329 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -1.59% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £709 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -3.26% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 84 139
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.15 £16.10
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.46 £21.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -9.45%
75th Percentile £68.19 £60.15 £64.77
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.57% -41.02% -2.78%

Amazon Athena
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon Athena job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon Athena
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Athena over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Athena.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena
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 Athena within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -112 114 £550 -29.03% 75
London -92 97 £601 -22.42% 10
Work from Home -74 57 £750 -6.25% 7
UK excluding London -40 31 £435 -17.14% 72
Scotland +5 14 £411 -19.76% 1
South East 0 7 £430 - 17
West Midlands -28 5 £431 -21.59% 6
Midlands -37 5 £431 -21.59% 13
North of England -40 4 £525 -8.70% 14
North West -23 2 - - 9
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 4
North East - 1 £550 - 1
East of England - 1 £450 - 17
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

Amazon Athena
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 50 (34.97%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (32.87%) Apache
3 20 (13.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 141 (98.60%) AWS
2 80 (55.94%) Amazon S3
3 58 (40.56%) AWS Lambda
3 58 (40.56%) Serverless
4 45 (31.47%) dbt
5 41 (28.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (22.38%) Snowflake
7 25 (17.48%) AWS Step Functions
8 19 (13.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (13.29%) GCP
9 18 (12.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (11.89%) Amazon SageMaker
10 17 (11.89%) GitHub
11 16 (11.19%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (10.49%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (9.79%) Azure
13 14 (9.79%) Power Platform
14 12 (8.39%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (6.99%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (31.47%) Amazon Redshift
2 42 (29.37%) Apache Iceberg
3 41 (28.67%) Data Lake
4 37 (25.87%) Apache Arrow
4 37 (25.87%) Dremio
5 26 (18.18%) Apache Ignite
6 21 (14.69%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (14.69%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (9.79%) Power BI
9 10 (6.99%) Delta Lake
9 10 (6.99%) DynamoDB
9 10 (6.99%) OLAP
9 10 (6.99%) OLTP
10 9 (6.29%) Big Data
10 9 (6.29%) Metadata
11 8 (5.59%) BigQuery
12 7 (4.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (4.90%) Tableau
13 6 (4.20%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 19 (13.29%) GitLab
2 10 (6.99%) Git
3 8 (5.59%) JIRA
4 6 (4.20%) MLflow
5 5 (3.50%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.40%) Maven
7 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.70%) JMeter
7 1 (0.70%) Locust
7 1 (0.70%) RStudio
7 1 (0.70%) Selenium
7 1 (0.70%) Snyk
7 1 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 53 (37.06%) Finance
2 37 (25.87%) Front Office
3 27 (18.88%) Banking
4 26 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 26 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 20 (13.99%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.80%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) iGaming
9 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (45.45%) AWS Engineer
2 42 (29.37%) Software Engineer
3 41 (28.67%) Python Engineer
4 40 (27.97%) Senior
5 38 (26.57%) AWS Software Engineer
6 37 (25.87%) Python Software Engineer
7 26 (18.18%) Java Engineer
7 26 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
8 25 (17.48%) Senior Java Engineer
8 25 (17.48%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 25 (17.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 24 (16.78%) Data Engineer
10 22 (15.38%) Architect
11 19 (13.29%) Developer
12 13 (9.09%) AWS Developer
12 13 (9.09%) Data Architect
13 11 (7.69%) Analyst
13 11 (7.69%) AWS Architect
13 11 (7.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 11 (7.69%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (30.07%) Pandas
2 42 (29.37%) NumPy
3 37 (25.87%) SciPy
4 26 (18.18%) gRPC
4 26 (18.18%) Protocol Buffers
5 19 (13.29%) Kafka
6 18 (12.59%) PySpark
7 17 (11.89%) Node.js
8 11 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.69%) React
8 11 (7.69%) Vue
9 7 (4.90%) Great Expectations
9 7 (4.90%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.50%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.50%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.80%) AWS CDK
11 4 (2.80%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (2.80%) RESTful
12 3 (2.10%) Plotly
12 3 (2.10%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.87%) Equities
1 37 (25.87%) Fixed Income
1 37 (25.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 27 (18.88%) Hedge funds
3 26 (18.18%) Derivative
3 26 (18.18%) Pricing Data
4 19 (13.29%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.10%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.10%) IVR
6 3 (2.10%) NHS
6 3 (2.10%) SCADA
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (37.76%) Agile
2 50 (34.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (31.47%) Software Engineering
4 43 (30.07%) Asset Management
4 43 (30.07%) CI/CD
5 41 (28.67%) DevOps
6 37 (25.87%) Investment Management
7 36 (25.17%) ETL
8 34 (23.78%) Data Modelling
9 32 (22.38%) Migration
10 31 (21.68%) Data Engineering
11 30 (20.98%) Analytics
12 28 (19.58%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (14.69%) Machine Learning
14 20 (13.99%) Data Governance
15 19 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (11.19%) Mentoring
17 15 (10.49%) Data Science
18 14 (9.79%) AI
18 14 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (71.33%) Python
2 51 (35.66%) SQL
3 41 (28.67%) JavaScript
4 38 (26.57%) TypeScript
5 32 (22.38%) Java
6 6 (4.20%) C#
7 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.10%) Scala
8 2 (1.40%) R
9 1 (0.70%) Bash
9 1 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (26.57%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.78%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.69%) AWS Certification
4 14 (9.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.20%) Degree
6 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.48%) GDPR
2 18 (12.59%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.90%) HIPAA
4 6 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.80%) NIST
6 3 (2.10%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.10%) PMO
7 2 (1.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (5.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (40.56%) Terraform
2 13 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Grafana
3 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (11.19%) Databricks
2 8 (5.59%) Oracle
3 7 (4.90%) Google
4 5 (3.50%) IBM
4 5 (3.50%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.80%) Sage
6 3 (2.10%) Avaya
6 3 (2.10%) Cisco
6 3 (2.10%) Genesys
6 3 (2.10%) Pega
6 3 (2.10%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.70%) Qualys
7 1 (0.70%) Tenable
7 1 (0.70%) Vertica