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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 303 521
Rank change year-on-year -131 +218 +147
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 151 249 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.67% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.39% 3.83% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 212 81
10th Percentile £413 £496 £438
25th Percentile £463 £572 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% +23.08% +1.96%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £525 £605
% change year-on-year -14.57% -13.22% -11.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,310 6,504 7,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 17.60% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,321 4,291 5,426
10th Percentile £330 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 89 149
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.00 £16.63
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.40 £21.64
Median hourly rate £44.25 £30.59 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.66% -35.60% +5.56%
75th Percentile £66.06 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.78 £65.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.26% -37.74% +13.38%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 -116 123 £650 -18.75% 13
London -75 102 £750 -6.25% 6
Work from Home -77 70 £750 -6.25% 12
UK excluding London -29 35 £449 -14.57% 17
Scotland -3 14 £411 -19.76% 7
South East +5 7 £430 - 4
North of England -33 7 £600 +26.32%
West Midlands -18 5 £431 - 2
Midlands -29 5 £431 - 2
North West -21 3 £650 +36.84%
Yorkshire -29 3 £600 -
North East - 2 £550 -
South West -11 1 £650 - 4
East of England - 1 £450 -
Northern Ireland - 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 63 (41.72%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (31.79%) Apache
3 16 (10.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.66%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 149 (98.68%) AWS
2 78 (51.66%) Amazon S3
3 59 (39.07%) dbt
4 55 (36.42%) AWS Lambda
4 55 (36.42%) Serverless
5 38 (25.17%) Snowflake
6 36 (23.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (15.89%) GCP
8 21 (13.91%) AWS Step Functions
9 20 (13.25%) GitHub
10 19 (12.58%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (11.26%) Amazon SageMaker
11 17 (11.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (9.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (9.93%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (7.28%) Azure
14 10 (6.62%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (6.62%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (6.62%) Power Platform
15 8 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.99%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (37.09%) Apache Iceberg
2 51 (33.77%) Apache Arrow
2 51 (33.77%) Dremio
3 41 (27.15%) Amazon Redshift
3 41 (27.15%) Data Lake
4 32 (21.19%) Apache Ignite
5 31 (20.53%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (14.57%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (13.91%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (6.62%) DynamoDB
8 10 (6.62%) Metadata
8 10 (6.62%) Power BI
9 9 (5.96%) Big Data
9 9 (5.96%) Delta Lake
10 7 (4.64%) Tableau
11 6 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (3.97%) OLAP
11 6 (3.97%) OLTP
12 5 (3.31%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (2.65%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 22 (14.57%) GitLab
2 8 (5.30%) Git
3 7 (4.64%) JIRA
4 5 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.31%) MLflow
5 2 (1.32%) Maven
6 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.66%) JMeter
6 1 (0.66%) Locust
6 1 (0.66%) RStudio
6 1 (0.66%) Selenium
6 1 (0.66%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (43.71%) Finance
2 51 (33.77%) Front Office
3 34 (22.52%) Banking
4 33 (21.85%) Investment Banking
5 31 (20.53%) Social Skills
6 19 (12.58%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.64%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.66%) iGaming
10 1 (0.66%) Military
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (51.66%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (35.76%) Software Engineer
3 52 (34.44%) AWS Software Engineer
4 49 (32.45%) Python Engineer
5 47 (31.13%) Python Software Engineer
6 44 (29.14%) Senior
7 36 (23.84%) Java Engineer
7 36 (23.84%) Java Software Engineer
8 31 (20.53%) Senior Java Engineer
8 31 (20.53%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 31 (20.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (17.22%) Developer
10 22 (14.57%) Architect
10 22 (14.57%) Data Engineer
11 20 (13.25%) AWS Developer
12 19 (12.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 16 (10.60%) Python Developer
14 13 (8.61%) Data Architect
15 11 (7.28%) AWS Architect
15 11 (7.28%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (37.75%) Pandas
2 56 (37.09%) NumPy
3 51 (33.77%) SciPy
4 32 (21.19%) gRPC
4 32 (21.19%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (16.56%) Node.js
6 19 (12.58%) AngularJS
6 19 (12.58%) React
6 19 (12.58%) Vue
7 15 (9.93%) PySpark
8 13 (8.61%) Kafka
9 7 (4.64%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.31%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.31%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.65%) AWS CDK
11 4 (2.65%) RESTful
12 3 (1.99%) Great Expectations
12 3 (1.99%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (1.99%) Plotly
12 3 (1.99%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 51 (33.77%) Equities
1 51 (33.77%) Fixed Income
1 51 (33.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (21.85%) Hedge funds
3 32 (21.19%) Derivative
3 32 (21.19%) Pricing Data
4 16 (10.60%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.30%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.99%) IVR
6 3 (1.99%) NHS
6 3 (1.99%) SCADA
7 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (45.70%) Agile
2 57 (37.75%) Asset Management
3 55 (36.42%) Software Engineering
4 51 (33.77%) Investment Management
5 45 (29.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (23.84%) CI/CD
6 36 (23.84%) DevOps
7 33 (21.85%) Migration
8 30 (19.87%) ETL
9 29 (19.21%) Data Modelling
10 27 (17.88%) Data Pipeline
11 26 (17.22%) Data Engineering
12 25 (16.56%) Analytics
13 21 (13.91%) Mentoring
14 20 (13.25%) Fintech
15 19 (12.58%) Order Management
15 19 (12.58%) Performance Attribution
15 19 (12.58%) Risk Management
16 18 (11.92%) Machine Learning
17 16 (10.60%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 102 (67.55%) Python
2 55 (36.42%) JavaScript
3 52 (34.44%) TypeScript
4 42 (27.81%) SQL
5 40 (26.49%) Java
6 3 (1.99%) Scala
7 2 (1.32%) C#
7 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.66%) Perl
8 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (24.50%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.52%) SC Cleared
3 25 (16.56%) AWS Certification
4 18 (11.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.62%) Degree
6 4 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.57%) GDPR
2 11 (7.28%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.64%) HIPAA
4 6 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.99%) NIST
5 3 (1.99%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.99%) PMO
6 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.32%) NCSC
7 1 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (5.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (35.10%) Terraform
2 12 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (7.28%) Databricks
2 8 (5.30%) IBM
3 7 (4.64%) Oracle
4 4 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.65%) Sage
5 3 (1.99%) Avaya
5 3 (1.99%) Cisco
5 3 (1.99%) Genesys
5 3 (1.99%) Google
5 3 (1.99%) Pega
5 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.99%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.66%) Vertica