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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 399 276
Rank change year-on-year -96 -123 +312
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 171 158 330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.48% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.09% 2.67% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 142 295
10th Percentile £404 £452 £500
25th Percentile £430 £550 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £571 £875 £888
90th Percentile £688 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £507
% change year-on-year -2.22% -11.24% -27.57%
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 8,166 5,909 6,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.08% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,443 3,946 4,764
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.75% -2.03%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £702 £749 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.45% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 91 85
10th Percentile £16.42 £22.84 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £30.15 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.50 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.48% +18.30% -43.93%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -118 143 £500 -33.33% 94
London -112 96 £525 -30.00% 65
Work from Home -103 58 £450 -40.00% 98
UK excluding London -68 52 £440 -2.22% 37
North of England -61 20 £425 -34.62% 11
Scotland -14 10 £409 -12.98% 4
South West -37 10 £450 -30.77% 7
Yorkshire -28 8 £451 -35.54% 4
North East -33 8 £371 -10.00% 2
Midlands -41 8 £469 +4.22% 6
West Midlands -42 6 £469 +4.22% 1
North West -51 4 £565 -13.15% 5
South East -57 4 £525 +22.09% 6
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 5
East of England -30 1 £475 +5.56% 2

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 32 (18.71%) Apache Spark
2 31 (18.13%) Apache
3 30 (17.54%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (12.87%) Confluence
5 12 (7.02%) SAS
6 10 (5.85%) Jupyter
7 4 (2.34%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 163 (95.32%) AWS
2 138 (80.70%) Amazon S3
3 116 (67.84%) Serverless
4 111 (64.91%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
6 50 (29.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (28.65%) Power Platform
8 36 (21.05%) AWS Step Functions
9 32 (18.71%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (16.96%) dbt
11 27 (15.79%) Azure
12 23 (13.45%) GitHub
13 21 (12.28%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (8.19%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (8.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (7.60%) Amazon Bedrock
15 13 (7.60%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (6.43%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) Firewall
1 2 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (41.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 48 (28.07%) Power BI
3 47 (27.49%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (22.81%) Data Lake
5 36 (21.05%) DynamoDB
6 24 (14.04%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (14.04%) Apache Iceberg
7 16 (9.36%) Tableau
8 14 (8.19%) Big Data
9 11 (6.43%) Metadata
10 9 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (4.09%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (4.09%) Data Vault
12 7 (4.09%) Delta Lake
13 6 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (3.51%) MySQL
13 6 (3.51%) Parquet
13 6 (3.51%) Pentaho
13 6 (3.51%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 53 (30.99%) GitLab
2 44 (25.73%) Git
3 24 (14.04%) JIRA
4 4 (2.34%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.34%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.34%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.34%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.17%) JUnit
5 2 (1.17%) Mockito
5 2 (1.17%) Postman
5 2 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 40 (23.39%) Public Sector
2 33 (19.30%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.71%) Finance
4 25 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.36%) Banking
6 7 (4.09%) Back Office
7 6 (3.51%) Military
8 5 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.34%) Front Office
10 3 (1.75%) Legal
10 3 (1.75%) Publishing
11 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.17%) Law
11 2 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.17%) Police
11 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.58%) Marketing
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (47.37%) Data Engineer
2 43 (25.15%) Senior
3 39 (22.81%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (19.30%) Senior Data Engineer
5 29 (16.96%) AWS Data Engineer
6 21 (12.28%) Architect
7 14 (8.19%) Developer
8 11 (6.43%) Analyst
8 11 (6.43%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.43%) Lead
9 10 (5.85%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Informatica Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.09%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.51%) AWS Data Architect
12 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.51%) Test Engineer
13 5 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.92%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (49.71%) Terraform
2 47 (27.49%) PySpark
3 15 (8.77%) Kafka
4 12 (7.02%) React
5 4 (2.34%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (2.34%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.75%) Next.js
6 3 (1.75%) YAML
7 2 (1.17%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.17%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.17%) Faiss
7 2 (1.17%) Great Expectations
7 2 (1.17%) LangChain
7 2 (1.17%) LlamaIndex
7 2 (1.17%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (1.17%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.17%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (1.17%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.51%) NHS
2 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.92%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.92%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.92%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.34%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.75%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.17%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.17%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.17%) PACS
6 2 (1.17%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.51%) Linux
2 4 (2.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (54.39%) CI/CD
2 85 (49.71%) Data Pipeline
3 77 (45.03%) Analytics
4 75 (43.86%) Data Engineering
5 70 (40.94%) Business Intelligence
5 70 (40.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (36.26%) Data Modelling
7 60 (35.09%) ETL
8 50 (29.24%) DevOps
9 49 (28.65%) Agile
10 44 (25.73%) AI
11 36 (21.05%) Machine Learning
12 32 (18.71%) Migration
12 32 (18.71%) Test Automation
13 29 (16.96%) Data Governance
14 26 (15.20%) Data Architecture
15 24 (14.04%) Data Science
15 24 (14.04%) Event-Driven
16 23 (13.45%) Observability
16 23 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 127 (74.27%) Python
2 112 (65.50%) SQL
3 15 (8.77%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.85%) Bash
4 10 (5.85%) Java
5 6 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.51%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.92%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.34%) C#
7 4 (2.34%) Scala
8 3 (1.75%) R
9 2 (1.17%) COBOL
10 1 (0.58%) Bicep
10 1 (0.58%) PHP
10 1 (0.58%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (39.77%) Security Cleared
2 62 (36.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.77%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 11 (6.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.75%) Degree
6 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (39.18%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.85%) QA
3 4 (2.34%) GDPR
4 3 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.75%) SLA
5 2 (1.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 25 (14.62%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (11.70%) Grafana
2 18 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.85%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.51%) Ansible
5 4 (2.34%) Puppet
5 4 (2.34%) Salt
6 2 (1.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.45%) Informatica
2 15 (8.77%) Databricks
3 13 (7.60%) Oracle
4 12 (7.02%) Splunk
5 8 (4.68%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.09%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.51%) Denodo
7 6 (3.51%) SnapLogic
8 4 (2.34%) Tenable
9 3 (1.75%) Adobe
10 2 (1.17%) Confluent
10 2 (1.17%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.58%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.58%) Foundry
11 1 (0.58%) Google
11 1 (0.58%) IBM
11 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.58%) Palantir