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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 403 285
Rank change year-on-year -122 -118 +265
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 166 155 306
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.47% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.05% 2.58% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 138 270
10th Percentile £405 £450 £500
25th Percentile £430 £525 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £888
90th Percentile £700 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £460 £514
% change year-on-year -5.82% -10.42% -15.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 8,110 6,002 6,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.87% 18.16% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,395 4,007 4,601
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 82 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.58 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.88 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -42.86%

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 8 October 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 15 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 8 October 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 -97 138 £500 -33.33% 88
London -109 94 £528 -29.60% 56
UK excluding London -77 51 £433 -5.82% 36
Work from Home -111 50 £450 -40.00% 22
North of England -47 19 £425 -26.09% 15
Scotland -13 10 £409 -19.80% 2
North East -32 9 £413 - 1
Midlands -42 9 £469 +4.22% 7
South West -31 8 £444 -31.73% 5
West Midlands -39 7 £469 +4.22% 1
Yorkshire -31 6 £481 -19.79% 6
South East -64 5 £525 +22.09% 3
North West -42 4 £565 -13.15% 8
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 6
Northern Ireland +9 1 £600 - 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 33 (19.88%) Apache Spark
2 29 (17.47%) Apache
2 29 (17.47%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (12.65%) Confluence
4 11 (6.63%) Jupyter
5 9 (5.42%) SAS
6 4 (2.41%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.60%) Appian
7 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 156 (93.98%) AWS
2 136 (81.93%) Amazon S3
3 109 (65.66%) Serverless
4 106 (63.86%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (34.94%) Amazon EMR
6 53 (31.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 48 (28.92%) Power Platform
8 37 (22.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 36 (21.69%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (16.27%) Azure
10 27 (16.27%) dbt
11 26 (15.66%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (12.65%) GitHub
13 17 (10.24%) Amazon EventBridge
14 16 (9.64%) Amazon Bedrock
14 16 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (9.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) Firewall
2 2 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (46.99%) Amazon Redshift
2 47 (28.31%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (28.31%) Power BI
3 41 (24.70%) Data Lake
4 39 (23.49%) DynamoDB
5 31 (18.67%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (13.25%) Apache Iceberg
7 15 (9.04%) Tableau
8 11 (6.63%) Amazon QuickSight
8 11 (6.63%) Big Data
8 11 (6.63%) Metadata
9 10 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (4.82%) Delta Lake
11 7 (4.22%) Data Vault
12 6 (3.61%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (3.61%) MySQL
12 6 (3.61%) Pentaho
12 6 (3.61%) PowerCenter
12 6 (3.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (34.94%) GitLab
2 43 (25.90%) Git
3 23 (13.86%) JIRA
4 6 (3.61%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.41%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.81%) Postman
6 3 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.20%) JUnit
7 2 (1.20%) MLflow
7 2 (1.20%) Mockito
7 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
General
1 38 (22.89%) Public Sector
2 37 (22.29%) Finance
2 37 (22.29%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.64%) Banking
5 9 (5.42%) Back Office
5 9 (5.42%) Legal
6 6 (3.61%) Military
7 5 (3.01%) Front Office
8 4 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.81%) Police
9 3 (1.81%) Publishing
10 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Law
10 2 (1.20%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) German Language
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 83 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 41 (24.70%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (22.89%) Senior
4 32 (19.28%) Senior Data Engineer
5 29 (17.47%) AWS Data Engineer
6 18 (10.84%) Architect
7 13 (7.83%) Developer
8 11 (6.63%) Analyst
8 11 (6.63%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.63%) Lead
9 9 (5.42%) AWS Architect
9 9 (5.42%) Informatica Engineer
10 8 (4.82%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) AWS Data Architect
12 6 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Test Engineer
13 5 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
14 4 (2.41%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (48.80%) Terraform
2 42 (25.30%) PySpark
3 16 (9.64%) Kafka
4 8 (4.82%) React
5 6 (3.61%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.81%) YAML
7 2 (1.20%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.20%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.20%) Faiss
7 2 (1.20%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.20%) LangChain
7 2 (1.20%) LlamaIndex
7 2 (1.20%) Node.js
7 2 (1.20%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (1.20%) REST
7 2 (1.20%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (1.20%) Spring
7 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.20%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.61%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.41%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.81%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.81%) NHS
5 3 (1.81%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.20%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.20%) PACS
6 2 (1.20%) PropTech
6 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.20%) VSAM
7 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Linux
2 5 (3.01%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (57.23%) CI/CD
2 80 (48.19%) Data Pipeline
3 77 (46.39%) Data Engineering
4 76 (45.78%) Analytics
5 70 (42.17%) Business Intelligence
6 66 (39.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 62 (37.35%) ETL
8 60 (36.14%) Data Modelling
9 46 (27.71%) DevOps
10 43 (25.90%) AI
11 40 (24.10%) Agile
12 32 (19.28%) Machine Learning
12 32 (19.28%) Test Automation
13 31 (18.67%) Data Governance
14 28 (16.87%) Migration
15 27 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (15.06%) Validation
17 24 (14.46%) Data Architecture
17 24 (14.46%) Event-Driven
18 23 (13.86%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 119 (71.69%) Python
2 116 (69.88%) SQL
3 11 (6.63%) Java
4 10 (6.02%) Bash
5 8 (4.82%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.22%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.61%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.41%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.41%) Scala
9 3 (1.81%) C#
10 2 (1.20%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.60%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) PHP
11 1 (0.60%) R
11 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (39.16%) Security Cleared
2 60 (36.14%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.45%) AWS Certification
4 12 (7.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.81%) Degree
7 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (43.98%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.83%) QA
3 4 (2.41%) GDPR
4 3 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (14.46%) Docker
2 4 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) HDFS
3 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (11.45%) Grafana
2 15 (9.04%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.23%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.61%) Ansible
5 4 (2.41%) Puppet
5 4 (2.41%) Salt
6 2 (1.20%) Control-M
6 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (14.46%) Informatica
2 13 (7.83%) Databricks
2 13 (7.83%) Oracle
3 8 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.82%) Splunk
4 7 (4.22%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.61%) Denodo
5 6 (3.61%) SnapLogic
6 3 (1.81%) Tenable
7 2 (1.20%) Confluent
7 2 (1.20%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.60%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.60%) Adobe
8 1 (0.60%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.60%) Foundry
8 1 (0.60%) IBM
8 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.60%) Palantir
8 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow