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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 347 351
Rank change year-on-year -131 +4 +253
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 169 179 247
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.62% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.28% 3.27% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 161 218
10th Percentile £313 £475 £489
25th Percentile £425 £550 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +32.78%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £525 £507
% change year-on-year -18.57% +3.55% -16.20%

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 7,398 5,478 7,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 18.93% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,948 3,730 5,218
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.28%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 102 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -14.53% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.34 £56.88
90th Percentile £81.64 £77.38 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% -9.60% -40.26%

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 5 June 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 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 5 June 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 -132 139 £475 -36.67% 38
London -102 110 £506 -32.50% 20
Work from Home -88 63 £455 -41.35% 21
UK excluding London -86 39 £428 -18.57% 22
North of England -70 12 £425 -20.00% 8
Scotland -2 11 £313 -40.38%
Midlands - 7 £469 - 2
North East -24 6 £413 - 3
West Midlands - 6 £469 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 £425 - 3
South East - 5 £525 - 5
South West -32 3 £450 -30.77% 6
East of England - 1 £475 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 - 1

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 33 (19.53%) Apache Spark
2 31 (18.34%) Apache
3 24 (14.20%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (11.24%) SAS
5 17 (10.06%) Confluence
6 6 (3.55%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.59%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.59%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 167 (98.82%) AWS
2 132 (78.11%) Amazon S3
3 93 (55.03%) Serverless
4 89 (52.66%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (27.22%) Power Platform
6 45 (26.63%) Amazon EMR
7 41 (24.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 38 (22.49%) AWS Step Functions
9 29 (17.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (15.98%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (15.98%) GitHub
11 26 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
11 26 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (12.43%) Azure
13 18 (10.65%) dbt
14 17 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (8.28%) Amazon ECR
15 14 (8.28%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (8.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Firewall
1 4 (2.37%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.78%) Network Security
3 1 (0.59%) 4G
3 1 (0.59%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (31.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 44 (26.04%) Power BI
3 38 (22.49%) DynamoDB
4 34 (20.12%) Data Lake
5 22 (13.02%) Apache Iceberg
6 21 (12.43%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (11.24%) OLTP
8 17 (10.06%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (10.06%) Mixpanel
8 17 (10.06%) Tableau
9 15 (8.88%) Metadata
10 13 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
10 13 (7.69%) BigQuery
11 12 (7.10%) OLAP
12 11 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (5.33%) Big Data
13 9 (5.33%) SQL Server
13 9 (5.33%) Star Schema
14 8 (4.73%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (4.14%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 41 (24.26%) GitLab
2 29 (17.16%) Git
3 22 (13.02%) JIRA
4 10 (5.92%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.55%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.96%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.37%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.37%) JUnit
7 4 (2.37%) Mockito
7 4 (2.37%) Postman
8 3 (1.78%) Snyk
8 3 (1.78%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.59%) ERwin
9 1 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (18.93%) Finance
2 25 (14.79%) Public Sector
2 25 (14.79%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.24%) Banking
4 9 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.78%) Military
5 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.18%) Billing
6 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.18%) Law
6 2 (1.18%) Legal
6 2 (1.18%) Police
6 2 (1.18%) Publishing
7 1 (0.59%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.59%) French Language
7 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 66 (39.05%) Data Engineer
2 39 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (13.02%) Senior
4 21 (12.43%) Architect
4 21 (12.43%) AWS Data Engineer
5 20 (11.83%) Developer
6 19 (11.24%) Lead
7 16 (9.47%) Principal Engineer
8 15 (8.88%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (8.28%) Data Architect
9 14 (8.28%) Principal Data Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) AWS Architect
11 10 (5.92%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 9 (5.33%) Analyst
12 9 (5.33%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.73%) AWS Data Architect
13 8 (4.73%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (28.40%) PySpark
2 34 (20.12%) Kafka
3 14 (8.28%) React
4 13 (7.69%) Great Expectations
5 9 (5.33%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.33%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (2.96%) OAuth
6 5 (2.96%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.96%) YAML
7 4 (2.37%) Gherkin
7 4 (2.37%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.37%) SOAP
7 4 (2.37%) Spring
7 4 (2.37%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.37%) WireMock
8 3 (1.78%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.78%) JWT
8 3 (1.78%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.78%) Next.js
8 3 (1.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (34.91%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.14%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.55%) PACS
3 6 (3.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 5 (2.96%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.37%) NHS
5 4 (2.37%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.78%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.78%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.18%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.59%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.78%) Linux
2 1 (0.59%) Unix
2 1 (0.59%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (57.99%) CI/CD
2 82 (48.52%) Analytics
3 75 (44.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (39.05%) DevOps
5 65 (38.46%) Data Engineering
5 65 (38.46%) Data Modelling
6 63 (37.28%) ETL
7 60 (35.50%) Data Pipeline
8 52 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
9 49 (28.99%) Agile
10 42 (24.85%) Observability
11 37 (21.89%) Data Governance
12 33 (19.53%) AI
13 31 (18.34%) Migration
14 30 (17.75%) Data Architecture
15 27 (15.98%) Test Automation
16 26 (15.38%) Machine Learning
17 25 (14.79%) LLM
18 24 (14.20%) Dimensional Modelling
19 21 (12.43%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 125 (73.96%) Python
2 87 (51.48%) SQL
3 20 (11.83%) C#
4 17 (10.06%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.28%) Bash
6 12 (7.10%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.51%) Java
8 6 (3.55%) SAS Macro
8 6 (3.55%) Scala
9 4 (2.37%) R
10 2 (1.18%) PHP
10 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.59%) C
11 1 (0.59%) COBOL
11 1 (0.59%) Go
11 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (39.64%) Security Cleared
2 59 (34.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.51%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (28.40%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.28%) GDPR
3 6 (3.55%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.37%) QA
5 3 (1.78%) NIST
5 3 (1.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 27 (15.98%) Docker
2 5 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 86 (50.89%) Terraform
2 25 (14.79%) Grafana
3 21 (12.43%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.88%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.14%) Ansible
6 5 (2.96%) Puppet
6 5 (2.96%) Salt
7 3 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (13.02%) Databricks
2 13 (7.69%) Google
2 13 (7.69%) Splunk
3 10 (5.92%) Informatica
4 9 (5.33%) Confluent
4 9 (5.33%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.73%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.73%) Oracle
6 6 (3.55%) Denodo
6 6 (3.55%) Tenable
7 4 (2.37%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.78%) Adobe
8 3 (1.78%) Qualys
9 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.59%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.59%) IBM