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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 325 418
Rank change year-on-year -139 +93 +211
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 167 202 175
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.68% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 3.59% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 176 149
10th Percentile £352 £475 £485
25th Percentile £413 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -3.23% +19.23%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% +11.11%

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 7,249 5,619 7,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.60% 19.02% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,944 3,876 5,169
10th Percentile £349 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.02%
75th Percentile £598 £639 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £483
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.24% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 108 145
10th Percentile £17.13 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.10 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -31.73%

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 24 April 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 13 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 24 April 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 -140 137 £500 -33.33% 30
London -110 114 £513 -33.87% 13
Work from Home -101 54 £463 -40.32% 20
UK excluding London -77 36 £425 -19.05% 23
Scotland +12 15 £400 -23.81% 4
Midlands -52 6 £533 -3.18% 2
North of England -63 6 £425 - 8
Yorkshire - 6 £425 -
West Midlands -53 5 £475 -13.64% 1
South East -52 4 £525 - 3
South West -41 3 £450 -30.77% 3
East of England - 1 £475 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -

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 (22.75%) Apache Spark
2 35 (20.96%) Apache
3 21 (12.57%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (7.19%) SAS
5 7 (4.19%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.60%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 166 (99.40%) AWS
2 127 (76.05%) Amazon S3
3 87 (52.10%) Serverless
4 84 (50.30%) AWS Lambda
5 50 (29.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (28.74%) AWS Step Functions
7 35 (20.96%) Power Platform
8 30 (17.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (17.37%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (16.17%) Amazon SQS
11 26 (15.57%) Amazon EMR
12 25 (14.97%) GitHub
13 22 (13.17%) Azure
13 22 (13.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (12.57%) Amazon Kinesis
15 18 (10.78%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (10.78%) GCP
15 18 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (10.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (10.18%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) Firewall
1 4 (2.40%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) 4G
3 1 (0.60%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (30.54%) Amazon Redshift
2 35 (20.96%) Data Lake
3 34 (20.36%) Power BI
4 29 (17.37%) DynamoDB
5 23 (13.77%) OLTP
6 21 (12.57%) Mixpanel
7 19 (11.38%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (10.78%) BigQuery
8 18 (10.78%) Tableau
9 16 (9.58%) OLAP
10 14 (8.38%) Apache Iceberg
10 14 (8.38%) Metadata
11 12 (7.19%) Amazon QuickSight
11 12 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (5.99%) Star Schema
13 9 (5.39%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (4.79%) Big Data
15 7 (4.19%) Data Vault
15 7 (4.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (19.76%) GitLab
2 26 (15.57%) Git
3 14 (8.38%) JIRA
4 9 (5.39%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.59%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.59%) MLflow
6 4 (2.40%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.80%) JUnit
7 3 (1.80%) Mockito
7 3 (1.80%) Postman
7 3 (1.80%) Snyk
7 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.60%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.60%) ERwin
8 1 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (21.56%) Finance
2 25 (14.97%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.37%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.98%) Banking
6 9 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.80%) Military
7 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.20%) Billing
8 2 (1.20%) Law
8 2 (1.20%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.60%) French Language
9 1 (0.60%) iGaming
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (32.93%) Data Engineer
2 34 (20.36%) AWS Engineer
3 23 (13.77%) Architect
3 23 (13.77%) Senior
4 22 (13.17%) Lead
5 19 (11.38%) Principal Engineer
6 17 (10.18%) Developer
6 17 (10.18%) Principal Data Engineer
7 15 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (8.38%) Analyst
8 14 (8.38%) AWS Data Engineer
9 13 (7.78%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 13 (7.78%) Data Architect
9 13 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.59%) AWS Architect
11 10 (5.99%) Principal Software Engineer
11 10 (5.99%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) Data Analyst
12 8 (4.79%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (4.19%) AWS Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.35%) PySpark
2 37 (22.16%) Kafka
3 17 (10.18%) Great Expectations
4 11 (6.59%) React
5 9 (5.39%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.39%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (2.99%) OAuth
6 5 (2.99%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.40%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.40%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.40%) Node.js
7 4 (2.40%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.40%) YAML
8 3 (1.80%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.80%) JWT
8 3 (1.80%) Next.js
8 3 (1.80%) Plotly
8 3 (1.80%) SOAP
8 3 (1.80%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.80%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 50 (29.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.19%) NHS
3 6 (3.59%) PACS
3 6 (3.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (2.40%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.40%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.80%) IVR
5 3 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.80%) SCADA
6 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.40%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Unix
2 2 (1.20%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (55.69%) CI/CD
2 82 (49.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (45.51%) Analytics
4 68 (40.72%) Data Engineering
5 61 (36.53%) DevOps
6 60 (35.93%) ETL
7 59 (35.33%) Data Modelling
8 52 (31.14%) Data Pipeline
9 44 (26.35%) Business Intelligence
10 41 (24.55%) Agile
11 39 (23.35%) Observability
12 37 (22.16%) Migration
13 36 (21.56%) Data Governance
14 34 (20.36%) AI
15 31 (18.56%) Data Architecture
16 29 (17.37%) LLM
17 28 (16.77%) Machine Learning
18 23 (13.77%) Test Automation
19 22 (13.17%) Validation
20 20 (11.98%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 118 (70.66%) Python
2 82 (49.10%) SQL
3 22 (13.17%) C#
4 14 (8.38%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.59%) Bash
6 10 (5.99%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.79%) Java
8 7 (4.19%) Scala
9 6 (3.59%) SAS Macro
10 4 (2.40%) R
11 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.60%) C
12 1 (0.60%) COBOL
12 1 (0.60%) Go
12 1 (0.60%) PHP
12 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 49 (29.34%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.98%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (26.35%) Data Quality
2 24 (14.37%) GDPR
3 6 (3.59%) ISO 20022
3 6 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.59%) NIST
4 3 (1.80%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.80%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.80%) PMO
4 3 (1.80%) QA
4 3 (1.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 19 (11.38%) Docker
2 4 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 85 (50.90%) Terraform
2 21 (12.57%) Kubernetes
3 19 (11.38%) Grafana
4 14 (8.38%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.99%) Ansible
6 4 (2.40%) Puppet
6 4 (2.40%) Salt
7 3 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (19.16%) Databricks
2 17 (10.18%) Google
3 13 (7.78%) Splunk
4 9 (5.39%) Confluent
5 8 (4.79%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.59%) Oracle
6 6 (3.59%) Tenable
7 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.80%) Adobe
8 3 (1.80%) Avaya
8 3 (1.80%) Cisco
8 3 (1.80%) Genesys
8 3 (1.80%) Pega
8 3 (1.80%) Qualys
8 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.20%) IBM
10 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.60%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.60%) OpenAI