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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 361 488
Rank change year-on-year -99 +127 +134
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 135 175 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.56% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.12% 3.01% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 151 77
10th Percentile £401 £475 £443
25th Percentile £436 £518 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £659
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +2.51% +1.31%
75th Percentile £625 £838 £788
90th Percentile £825 £888 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £424 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -19.29% -12.50% -7.69%

All Database & BI 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 6,380 5,806 7,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.58% 18.44% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,385 3,816 5,079
10th Percentile £333 £355 £350
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 86 180
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.86
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.56 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £35.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -17.35% -29.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £28.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +91.97% -28.38% -28.48%

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 29 January 2026.

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 12 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 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -121 104 £525 -22.22% 42
London -55 96 £525 -27.59% 8
Work from Home -79 41 £650 -14.75% 32
UK excluding London -70 22 £424 -19.29% 39
Scotland +5 13 £405 -22.86% 1
West Midlands -34 3 £413 -25.00% 1
Midlands -55 3 £413 -25.00% 2
South East -29 2 £525 - 10
North of England -59 2 £525 -22.22% 11
Northern Ireland - 2 £430 - 1
North East - 1 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 7

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 38 (28.15%) Apache
2 27 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (17.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 133 (98.52%) AWS
2 85 (62.96%) Amazon S3
3 62 (45.93%) AWS Lambda
3 62 (45.93%) Serverless
4 43 (31.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (23.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 23 (17.04%) Power Platform
7 22 (16.30%) Amazon Kinesis
7 22 (16.30%) dbt
8 21 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (14.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (13.33%) GCP
11 16 (11.85%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (11.85%) Snowflake
12 15 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (9.63%) Azure
13 13 (9.63%) GitHub
14 12 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (8.89%) Collibra
14 12 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) Network Security
2 1 (0.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 34 (25.19%) Data Lake
3 27 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 23 (17.04%) Power BI
5 19 (14.07%) OLTP
6 18 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (11.85%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (11.85%) Apache Arrow
7 16 (11.85%) Dremio
8 15 (11.11%) Mixpanel
8 15 (11.11%) OLAP
9 14 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (9.63%) BigQuery
10 13 (9.63%) DynamoDB
11 11 (8.15%) Apache Ignite
11 11 (8.15%) Tableau
12 10 (7.41%) Delta Lake
13 8 (5.93%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (5.93%) Metadata
14 7 (5.19%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 23 (17.04%) GitLab
2 11 (8.15%) Git
3 7 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.44%) MLflow
5 5 (3.70%) JIRA
6 2 (1.48%) Maven
6 2 (1.48%) Snyk
7 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) JMeter
7 1 (0.74%) JUnit
7 1 (0.74%) Locust
7 1 (0.74%) Mockito
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) RStudio
General
1 31 (22.96%) Finance
2 29 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.85%) Front Office
5 13 (9.63%) Banking
6 11 (8.15%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) iGaming
10 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (30.37%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (29.63%) Data Engineer
3 28 (20.74%) Architect
4 27 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 25 (18.52%) Senior
6 21 (15.56%) Python Engineer
7 20 (14.81%) Data Architect
8 16 (11.85%) AWS Software Engineer
8 16 (11.85%) Python Software Engineer
9 13 (9.63%) AWS Architect
9 13 (9.63%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (8.89%) Analyst
10 12 (8.89%) AWS Data Engineer
10 12 (8.89%) Developer
10 12 (8.89%) Lead
10 12 (8.89%) Principal Data Engineer
11 11 (8.15%) Java Engineer
11 11 (8.15%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (8.15%) Principal Software Engineer
12 10 (7.41%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (23.70%) Kafka
2 25 (18.52%) PySpark
3 18 (13.33%) Protocol Buffers
4 16 (11.85%) NumPy
4 16 (11.85%) Pandas
4 16 (11.85%) SciPy
5 13 (9.63%) Great Expectations
6 11 (8.15%) gRPC
6 11 (8.15%) Node.js
7 7 (5.19%) Apache Avro
8 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.70%) React
8 5 (3.70%) Vue
9 4 (2.96%) AWS CDK
9 4 (2.96%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (2.22%) Plotly
11 2 (1.48%) Gherkin
11 2 (1.48%) Hugging Face
11 2 (1.48%) Spring
11 2 (1.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.70%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.85%) Equities
2 16 (11.85%) Fixed Income
2 16 (11.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (8.89%) Hedge funds
4 11 (8.15%) Derivative
4 11 (8.15%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.96%) PACS
5 4 (2.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.22%) IVR
6 3 (2.22%) NHS
6 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.22%) SCADA
7 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Linux
1 2 (1.48%) Unix
2 1 (0.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (45.93%) CI/CD
2 59 (43.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (35.56%) ETL
4 45 (33.33%) Analytics
5 44 (32.59%) DevOps
6 42 (31.11%) Data Engineering
7 41 (30.37%) Data Modelling
8 34 (25.19%) Data Pipeline
9 30 (22.22%) Agile
9 30 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 29 (21.48%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (20.74%) Data Governance
11 28 (20.74%) Migration
12 22 (16.30%) Asset Management
13 21 (15.56%) AI
13 21 (15.56%) Data Architecture
14 18 (13.33%) Machine Learning
14 18 (13.33%) Observability
15 16 (11.85%) Investment Management
16 15 (11.11%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 89 (65.93%) Python
2 57 (42.22%) SQL
3 19 (14.07%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.33%) Java
5 17 (12.59%) TypeScript
6 13 (9.63%) C#
7 4 (2.96%) Scala
8 3 (2.22%) Bash
8 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.48%) R
10 1 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 42 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.59%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.48%) Degree
5 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.26%) GDPR
2 22 (16.30%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.44%) HIPAA
3 6 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.70%) NIST
5 4 (2.96%) ISO 20022
6 3 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.22%) PMO
7 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.74%) NCSC
8 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (47.41%) Terraform
2 13 (9.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.22%) Grafana
3 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.74%) Puppet
5 1 (0.74%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (17.78%) Databricks
2 12 (8.89%) Google
3 8 (5.93%) Oracle
4 7 (5.19%) Confluent
5 6 (4.44%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.22%) Avaya
6 3 (2.22%) Cisco
6 3 (2.22%) Genesys
6 3 (2.22%) Pega
6 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.48%) Qualys
7 2 (1.48%) Tenable
8 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.74%) IBM
8 1 (0.74%) Vertica