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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 342 478
Rank change year-on-year -151 +136 +161
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 137 192 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.63% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.99% 3.31% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 167 99
10th Percentile £354 £464 £468
25th Percentile £413 £524 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £788
90th Percentile £650 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £409 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -22.14% -4.55% -13.73%

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 6,896 5,806 7,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 18.94% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,749 3,959 5,160
10th Percentile £344 £351 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 96 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £15.68
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.39% -29.16% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.80 £69.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.37%

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 7 March 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 12 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 7 March 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 -168 105 £515 -23.70% 29
London -93 95 £525 -22.22% 16
Work from Home -93 42 £603 -20.98% 19
UK excluding London -79 28 £409 -22.14% 21
Scotland +19 18 £401 -23.62% 4
Midlands -60 5 £475 -13.64% 2
West Midlands -51 4 £444 -19.32% 2
North of England -64 3 £525 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 3
North East -11 1 £550 - 1
South East -35 1 - - 7
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 33 (24.09%) Apache
2 30 (21.90%) Apache Spark
3 19 (13.87%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (5.84%) SAS
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.73%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.73%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 136 (99.27%) AWS
2 98 (71.53%) Amazon S3
3 65 (47.45%) AWS Lambda
3 65 (47.45%) Serverless
4 54 (39.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 38 (27.74%) AWS Step Functions
6 24 (17.52%) Power Platform
7 22 (16.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (16.06%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (16.06%) Amazon EMR
7 22 (16.06%) Amazon Kinesis
8 19 (13.87%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (13.14%) Azure
9 18 (13.14%) GCP
9 18 (13.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (11.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (11.68%) Collibra
10 16 (11.68%) dbt
11 13 (9.49%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (9.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) Network Security
2 2 (1.46%) Firewall
2 2 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.73%) 4G
3 1 (0.73%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (32.12%) Amazon Redshift
2 36 (26.28%) Data Lake
3 23 (16.79%) Power BI
4 22 (16.06%) OLTP
5 21 (15.33%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (14.60%) Mixpanel
7 17 (12.41%) BigQuery
7 17 (12.41%) DynamoDB
7 17 (12.41%) OLAP
8 15 (10.95%) Apache Iceberg
9 14 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (9.49%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (8.03%) Metadata
11 11 (8.03%) Tableau
12 9 (6.57%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (5.84%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (4.38%) Delta Lake
14 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
14 6 (4.38%) Star Schema
15 5 (3.65%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 24 (17.52%) GitLab
2 19 (13.87%) Git
3 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.38%) JIRA
4 6 (4.38%) MLflow
5 3 (2.19%) Snyk
6 2 (1.46%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.46%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.46%) JUnit
6 2 (1.46%) Mockito
6 2 (1.46%) Postman
7 1 (0.73%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.73%) ERwin
7 1 (0.73%) JMeter
7 1 (0.73%) Locust
7 1 (0.73%) Maven
7 1 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.73%) RStudio
General
1 32 (23.36%) Finance
2 27 (19.71%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.79%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.22%) Banking
5 12 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Front Office
7 4 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.46%) Billing
9 1 (0.73%) iGaming
9 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Marketing
9 1 (0.73%) Military
9 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (32.12%) Data Engineer
2 34 (24.82%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (17.52%) Architect
4 20 (14.60%) Senior
5 18 (13.14%) Principal Engineer
6 17 (12.41%) Data Architect
7 16 (11.68%) Lead
7 16 (11.68%) Principal Data Engineer
7 16 (11.68%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.49%) AWS Data Engineer
9 12 (8.76%) Analyst
9 12 (8.76%) AWS Architect
9 12 (8.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 11 (8.03%) Principal Software Engineer
10 11 (8.03%) Python Engineer
11 10 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (6.57%) AWS Data Architect
12 9 (6.57%) Developer
13 8 (5.84%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.55%) Kafka
2 34 (24.82%) PySpark
3 17 (12.41%) Great Expectations
4 11 (8.03%) Protocol Buffers
5 8 (5.84%) Node.js
6 7 (5.11%) Apache Avro
7 5 (3.65%) NumPy
7 5 (3.65%) OAuth
7 5 (3.65%) OAuth2
7 5 (3.65%) Pandas
7 5 (3.65%) SciPy
8 4 (2.92%) AWS CDK
8 4 (2.92%) gRPC
8 4 (2.92%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (2.19%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.19%) JWT
9 3 (2.19%) Plotly
10 2 (1.46%) React
10 2 (1.46%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.46%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 44 (32.12%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.65%) Equities
2 5 (3.65%) Fixed Income
2 5 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.92%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.92%) Derivative
3 4 (2.92%) Hedge funds
3 4 (2.92%) PACS
3 4 (2.92%) Pricing Data
3 4 (2.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.19%) IVR
4 3 (2.19%) NHS
4 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.19%) SCADA
5 2 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.46%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.46%) Linux
1 2 (1.46%) Windows
1 2 (1.46%) zOS
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (57.66%) CI/CD
2 65 (47.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (45.26%) Analytics
4 57 (41.61%) Data Engineering
4 57 (41.61%) ETL
5 56 (40.88%) DevOps
6 53 (38.69%) Data Modelling
7 40 (29.20%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (25.55%) Data Governance
8 35 (25.55%) Migration
9 31 (22.63%) Observability
10 30 (21.90%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (21.17%) AI
12 28 (20.44%) Agile
12 28 (20.44%) Data Architecture
13 23 (16.79%) LLM
14 22 (16.06%) Machine Learning
15 19 (13.87%) Data Analytics
15 19 (13.87%) Software Engineering
15 19 (13.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 98 (71.53%) Python
2 70 (51.09%) SQL
3 20 (14.60%) C#
4 12 (8.76%) Java
5 9 (6.57%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.11%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.38%) Bash
8 5 (3.65%) SAS Macro
8 5 (3.65%) Scala
9 2 (1.46%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.46%) R
10 1 (0.73%) C
10 1 (0.73%) COBOL
10 1 (0.73%) Go
10 1 (0.73%) PHP
10 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (31.39%) Security Cleared
2 36 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.87%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (25.55%) Data Quality
2 26 (18.98%) GDPR
3 6 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.38%) NIST
4 4 (2.92%) ISO 20022
5 3 (2.19%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.19%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.19%) PMO
6 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.46%) QA
7 1 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.73%) IFRS
7 1 (0.73%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.73%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (8.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 69 (50.36%) Terraform
2 12 (8.76%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.57%) Grafana
4 7 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.19%) Ansible
5 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.46%) Puppet
6 2 (1.46%) Salt
7 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (21.90%) Databricks
2 16 (11.68%) Google
3 8 (5.84%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.11%) Confluent
4 7 (5.11%) Oracle
5 3 (2.19%) Avaya
5 3 (2.19%) Cisco
5 3 (2.19%) Genesys
5 3 (2.19%) Pega
5 3 (2.19%) Qualys
5 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.19%) Tenable
6 2 (1.46%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.46%) IBM
7 1 (0.73%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.73%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.73%) OpenAI