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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 327 420
Rank change year-on-year -128 +93 +218
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 171 200 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.68% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.35% 3.60% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 180 146
10th Percentile £350 £475 £488
25th Percentile £420 £550 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +25.49%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -17.14% +2.44% -5.09%

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 7,269 5,556 7,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 18.97% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,928 3,836 5,196
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 103 143
10th Percentile £16.73 £19.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.88 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.39% -17.98% -31.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £58.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% -25.00% -27.27%

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 5 May 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 14 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 5 May 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 -159 136 £494 -34.17% 30
London -105 111 £513 -32.79% 13
Work from Home -109 55 £464 -40.13% 14
UK excluding London -71 42 £435 -17.14% 22
Scotland -2 19 £400 -23.81% 4
North of England -55 7 £425 +3.03% 8
Midlands -64 7 £469 -14.73% 2
West Midlands -53 6 £469 -14.73% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £425 - 1
South East - 5 £525 - 3
South West -40 3 £450 -30.77% 4
North East -19 1 £308 -25.45% 1
East of England - 1 £475 - 1
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 37 (21.64%) Apache Spark
2 32 (18.71%) Apache
3 20 (11.70%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (10.53%) SAS
5 13 (7.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.58%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 170 (99.42%) AWS
2 129 (75.44%) Amazon S3
3 92 (53.80%) Serverless
4 88 (51.46%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (26.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 43 (25.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 41 (23.98%) Power Platform
8 37 (21.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (18.13%) Amazon EMR
10 29 (16.96%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (15.79%) Amazon Kinesis
12 26 (15.20%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (15.20%) GitHub
13 22 (12.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (12.28%) Azure
15 19 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (9.94%) GCP
18 16 (9.36%) Amazon EventBridge
18 16 (9.36%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.34%) Firewall
1 4 (2.34%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) 4G
3 1 (0.58%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 39 (22.81%) Data Lake
2 39 (22.81%) Power BI
3 36 (21.05%) DynamoDB
4 22 (12.87%) Apache Iceberg
4 22 (12.87%) OLTP
5 21 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (11.70%) Mixpanel
7 17 (9.94%) BigQuery
7 17 (9.94%) Tableau
8 16 (9.36%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (9.36%) Metadata
9 15 (8.77%) OLAP
10 12 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (6.43%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (5.26%) Star Schema
13 8 (4.68%) Big Data
13 8 (4.68%) Delta Lake
13 8 (4.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (23.39%) GitLab
2 24 (14.04%) Git
3 19 (11.11%) JIRA
4 9 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.51%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.51%) MLflow
6 4 (2.34%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.75%) JUnit
7 3 (1.75%) Mockito
7 3 (1.75%) Postman
7 3 (1.75%) Snyk
7 3 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.58%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.58%) ERwin
8 1 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (23.39%) Finance
2 24 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.53%) Banking
5 17 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.75%) Military
7 3 (1.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.17%) Billing
8 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.17%) Law
8 2 (1.17%) Police
9 1 (0.58%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.58%) French Language
9 1 (0.58%) iGaming
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (34.50%) Data Engineer
2 39 (22.81%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (16.37%) Senior
4 23 (13.45%) Lead
5 22 (12.87%) Architect
6 20 (11.70%) Developer
7 19 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
8 18 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
9 16 (9.36%) Principal Data Engineer
10 15 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (8.77%) Data Architect
11 12 (7.02%) Analyst
11 12 (7.02%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 12 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.02%) Senior Data Engineer
12 9 (5.26%) AWS Architect
12 9 (5.26%) Principal Software Engineer
12 9 (5.26%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.68%) AWS Data Architect
13 8 (4.68%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (26.90%) PySpark
2 38 (22.22%) Kafka
3 16 (9.36%) Great Expectations
4 12 (7.02%) React
5 9 (5.26%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.26%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (2.92%) Node.js
6 5 (2.92%) OAuth
6 5 (2.92%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.34%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.34%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.34%) YAML
8 3 (1.75%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.75%) JWT
8 3 (1.75%) Next.js
8 3 (1.75%) Plotly
8 3 (1.75%) SOAP
8 3 (1.75%) Spring
8 3 (1.75%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.75%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 51 (29.82%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.09%) NHS
3 6 (3.51%) PACS
3 6 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 5 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.34%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.34%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.75%) IVR
6 3 (1.75%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.17%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.17%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.58%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.34%) Linux
2 2 (1.17%) Unix
2 2 (1.17%) Windows
2 2 (1.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (56.14%) CI/CD
2 82 (47.95%) Analytics
3 76 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (39.77%) Data Engineering
5 64 (37.43%) DevOps
6 63 (36.84%) Data Modelling
7 60 (35.09%) ETL
8 54 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
9 48 (28.07%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (26.32%) Observability
11 42 (24.56%) Agile
12 39 (22.81%) Migration
13 35 (20.47%) Data Governance
14 34 (19.88%) AI
15 32 (18.71%) Data Architecture
16 28 (16.37%) LLM
17 27 (15.79%) Machine Learning
18 24 (14.04%) Test Automation
19 22 (12.87%) Data Analytics
20 21 (12.28%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 126 (73.68%) Python
2 84 (49.12%) SQL
3 22 (12.87%) C#
4 15 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.02%) Bash
6 11 (6.43%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.85%) Java
8 6 (3.51%) SAS Macro
8 6 (3.51%) Scala
9 4 (2.34%) R
10 2 (1.17%) PHP
10 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.58%) C
11 1 (0.58%) COBOL
11 1 (0.58%) Go
11 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (35.67%) Security Cleared
2 52 (30.41%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.43%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (25.73%) Data Quality
2 20 (11.70%) GDPR
3 6 (3.51%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.34%) QA
5 3 (1.75%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.75%) NIST
5 3 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.75%) PMO
5 3 (1.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS
6 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 21 (12.28%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 84 (49.12%) Terraform
2 25 (14.62%) Grafana
3 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.19%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.51%) Ansible
6 4 (2.34%) Puppet
6 4 (2.34%) Salt
7 3 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (19.30%) Databricks
2 16 (9.36%) Google
3 13 (7.60%) Splunk
4 9 (5.26%) Confluent
4 9 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.26%) Oracle
5 8 (4.68%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.51%) Denodo
6 6 (3.51%) Tenable
7 5 (2.92%) Informatica
8 4 (2.34%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.75%) Adobe
9 3 (1.75%) Avaya
9 3 (1.75%) Cisco
9 3 (1.75%) Genesys
9 3 (1.75%) Pega
9 3 (1.75%) Qualys
9 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.17%) IBM