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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 388 273
Rank change year-on-year -111 -115 +326
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 174 179 340
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.54% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% 2.99% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 156 303
10th Percentile £367 £450 £500
25th Percentile £430 £563 £668
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £568 £875 £888
90th Percentile £650 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £450 £507
% change year-on-year -1.11% -11.24% -27.57%

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 8,158 5,984 7,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.17% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,435 4,045 4,978
10th Percentile £356 £344 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 91 102
10th Percentile £15.95 £20.75 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.88 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.70 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -38.77%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -137 145 £483 -35.67% 34
London -130 102 £515 -31.33% 20
Work from Home -99 67 £450 -40.00% 16
UK excluding London -70 50 £445 -1.11% 16
North of England -67 16 £425 -34.62% 5
Scotland -7 10 £409 -12.98% 2
Midlands -46 10 £472 +4.89% 5
South West -29 9 £450 -30.77% 2
North East -37 8 £371 -10.00% 1
Yorkshire -40 7 £433 -38.21% 3
West Midlands -50 7 £469 +4.22% 4
South East -74 5 £525 +23.53%
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 1
East of England -20 1 £475 +5.56% 2
North West -41 1 £700 +7.69% 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 31 (17.82%) Apache
2 29 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 26 (14.94%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (13.22%) Confluence
5 19 (10.92%) SAS
6 9 (5.17%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 169 (97.13%) AWS
2 142 (81.61%) Amazon S3
3 114 (65.52%) Serverless
4 109 (62.64%) AWS Lambda
5 60 (34.48%) Amazon EMR
6 51 (29.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (25.86%) Power Platform
8 35 (20.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 34 (19.54%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (16.09%) GitHub
11 27 (15.52%) dbt
12 23 (13.22%) Azure
13 20 (11.49%) Amazon Kinesis
14 19 (10.92%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (8.05%) Amazon EventBridge
19 13 (7.47%) Amazon Bedrock
19 13 (7.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) Firewall
1 3 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.57%) 4G
3 1 (0.57%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (40.80%) Amazon Redshift
2 44 (25.29%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (24.71%) Power BI
4 41 (23.56%) Data Lake
5 34 (19.54%) DynamoDB
6 24 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (13.22%) Apache Iceberg
8 16 (9.20%) Metadata
9 14 (8.05%) Tableau
10 13 (7.47%) Big Data
11 9 (5.17%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (4.02%) OLTP
12 7 (4.02%) SQL Server
13 6 (3.45%) Base SAS
13 6 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (3.45%) Pentaho
14 5 (2.87%) Delta Lake
14 5 (2.87%) Mixpanel
14 5 (2.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (27.59%) GitLab
2 46 (26.44%) Git
3 28 (16.09%) JIRA
4 9 (5.17%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.87%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.30%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.30%) JUnit
7 4 (2.30%) Mockito
7 4 (2.30%) Postman
8 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.57%) ERwin
9 1 (0.57%) MLflow
9 1 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 40 (22.99%) Finance
2 34 (19.54%) Public Sector
3 31 (17.82%) Social Skills
4 27 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (14.37%) Banking
6 8 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.87%) Back Office
8 3 (1.72%) Military
8 3 (1.72%) Publishing
8 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.15%) Billing
9 2 (1.15%) Front Office
9 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.15%) Law
9 2 (1.15%) Legal
9 2 (1.15%) Police
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (41.95%) Data Engineer
2 46 (26.44%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (19.54%) Senior
4 28 (16.09%) AWS Data Engineer
5 27 (15.52%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (12.07%) Architect
7 20 (11.49%) Developer
8 13 (7.47%) Lead
9 12 (6.90%) AWS Architect
10 11 (6.32%) Data Architect
11 9 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Analyst
12 8 (4.60%) AWS Data Architect
12 8 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) Informatica Engineer
14 6 (3.45%) Python Developer
15 5 (2.87%) Data Analyst
15 5 (2.87%) Data Modeller
15 5 (2.87%) Principal Engineer
15 5 (2.87%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (27.59%) PySpark
2 17 (9.77%) Kafka
3 14 (8.05%) React
4 6 (3.45%) YAML
5 5 (2.87%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.30%) Gherkin
6 4 (2.30%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.30%) SOAP
6 4 (2.30%) Spring
6 4 (2.30%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.30%) WireMock
7 3 (1.72%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.72%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.72%) Next.js
7 3 (1.72%) Node.js
7 3 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.15%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.15%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.15%) Plotly
8 2 (1.15%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.45%) NHS
4 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.30%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.72%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.15%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.15%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.15%) PACS
7 2 (1.15%) Pricing Data
7 2 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Linux
2 3 (1.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Windows
3 1 (0.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (58.62%) CI/CD
2 82 (47.13%) Analytics
2 82 (47.13%) Data Pipeline
3 76 (43.68%) Data Engineering
4 71 (40.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (38.51%) Data Modelling
6 66 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (32.76%) DevOps
7 57 (32.76%) ETL
8 56 (32.18%) Agile
9 43 (24.71%) AI
10 36 (20.69%) Machine Learning
11 32 (18.39%) Data Governance
11 32 (18.39%) Migration
11 32 (18.39%) Test Automation
12 27 (15.52%) Data Architecture
13 26 (14.94%) Observability
13 26 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (13.79%) Dimensional Modelling
14 24 (13.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 130 (74.71%) Python
2 103 (59.20%) SQL
3 17 (9.77%) TypeScript
4 14 (8.05%) Bash
5 12 (6.90%) Java
6 11 (6.32%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.75%) C#
8 6 (3.45%) SAS Macro
9 5 (2.87%) Scala
10 3 (1.72%) R
10 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.15%) PHP
11 2 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.57%) Bicep
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 66 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 58 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.20%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (5.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.72%) Degree
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.15%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (36.21%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.02%) GDPR
2 7 (4.02%) QA
3 3 (1.72%) SLA
4 2 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS
5 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 90 (51.72%) Terraform
2 23 (13.22%) Grafana
3 21 (12.07%) Kubernetes
4 13 (7.47%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.02%) Ansible
6 5 (2.87%) Puppet
6 5 (2.87%) Salt
7 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.77%) Informatica
2 13 (7.47%) Databricks
2 13 (7.47%) Splunk
3 8 (4.60%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.60%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.02%) Oracle
5 6 (3.45%) Denodo
6 4 (2.30%) Google
6 4 (2.30%) Tenable
7 3 (1.72%) Adobe
7 3 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.15%) Confluent
8 2 (1.15%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.15%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.57%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.57%) IBM
9 1 (0.57%) Qualys