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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 334 406
Rank change year-on-year -119 +72 +207
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 168 199 183
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.68% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.32% 3.60% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 178 156
10th Percentile £350 £475 £488
25th Percentile £425 £550 £659
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 £440 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -16.19% +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 7,251 5,528 7,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.28% 19.00% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,906 3,799 5,213
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -3.13% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 102 144
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.09 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -32.54%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.46 £59.44
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.88 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.47% -25.00% -28.19%

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 8 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 8 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 -153 135 £500 -33.33% 35
London -109 111 £519 -33.06% 17
Work from Home -102 55 £464 -40.13% 20
UK excluding London -76 39 £440 -16.19% 20
Scotland -1 16 £400 -23.81%
North of England -58 7 £425 +3.03% 10
Midlands -63 7 £469 -14.73% 2
West Midlands -51 6 £469 -14.73% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £425 - 1
South East - 5 £525 - 4
South West -39 3 £450 -30.77% 3
North East -17 1 £308 -25.45% 3
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 (22.02%) Apache Spark
2 32 (19.05%) Apache
3 19 (11.31%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (10.71%) SAS
5 13 (7.74%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.60%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 167 (99.40%) AWS
2 130 (77.38%) Amazon S3
3 91 (54.17%) Serverless
4 87 (51.79%) AWS Lambda
5 47 (27.98%) AWS Step Functions
6 41 (24.40%) Power Platform
7 40 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (18.45%) Amazon EMR
10 30 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
12 27 (16.07%) GitHub
13 24 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
14 21 (12.50%) Azure
15 20 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (11.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 16 (9.52%) Collibra
18 16 (9.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.38%) Firewall
1 4 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.79%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) 4G
3 1 (0.60%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (30.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 39 (23.21%) Data Lake
2 39 (23.21%) Power BI
3 34 (20.24%) DynamoDB
4 22 (13.10%) Apache Iceberg
4 22 (13.10%) OLTP
5 20 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (11.90%) Mixpanel
6 17 (10.12%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (10.12%) Tableau
7 16 (9.52%) BigQuery
7 16 (9.52%) Metadata
8 15 (8.93%) OLAP
9 12 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (6.55%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (5.36%) SQL Server
11 9 (5.36%) Star Schema
12 8 (4.76%) Big Data
12 8 (4.76%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 40 (23.81%) GitLab
2 24 (14.29%) Git
3 18 (10.71%) JIRA
4 9 (5.36%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.57%) MLflow
6 4 (2.38%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.79%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.79%) JUnit
7 3 (1.79%) Mockito
7 3 (1.79%) Postman
7 3 (1.79%) Snyk
7 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.60%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.60%) ERwin
8 1 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (22.02%) Finance
2 23 (13.69%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.71%) Banking
5 17 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.79%) Military
7 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.19%) Billing
8 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.19%) Law
8 2 (1.19%) Legal
8 2 (1.19%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.60%) French Language
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 58 (34.52%) Data Engineer
2 39 (23.21%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (16.67%) Senior
4 23 (13.69%) Lead
5 20 (11.90%) Architect
5 20 (11.90%) Developer
6 19 (11.31%) AWS Data Engineer
7 18 (10.71%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (9.52%) Principal Data Engineer
9 15 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (8.93%) Data Architect
10 12 (7.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (6.55%) Analyst
12 10 (5.95%) Software Engineer
13 9 (5.36%) AWS Architect
13 9 (5.36%) Principal Software Engineer
14 8 (4.76%) AWS Data Architect
14 8 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.38%) PySpark
2 38 (22.62%) Kafka
3 16 (9.52%) Great Expectations
4 14 (8.33%) React
5 9 (5.36%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.36%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (2.98%) OAuth
6 5 (2.98%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.38%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.38%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.38%) YAML
8 3 (1.79%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.79%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.79%) JWT
8 3 (1.79%) Next.js
8 3 (1.79%) Node.js
8 3 (1.79%) Plotly
8 3 (1.79%) SOAP
8 3 (1.79%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 52 (30.95%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.57%) PACS
2 6 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (2.98%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.38%) NHS
4 4 (2.38%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.79%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.19%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.19%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.60%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.60%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.19%) Unix
2 2 (1.19%) Windows
2 2 (1.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (56.55%) CI/CD
2 77 (45.83%) Analytics
3 75 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (40.48%) Data Engineering
5 62 (36.90%) Data Modelling
5 62 (36.90%) DevOps
6 59 (35.12%) ETL
7 54 (32.14%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (27.98%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (26.19%) Observability
10 42 (25.00%) Agile
11 35 (20.83%) Data Governance
11 35 (20.83%) Migration
12 34 (20.24%) AI
13 32 (19.05%) Data Architecture
14 28 (16.67%) LLM
15 27 (16.07%) Machine Learning
16 22 (13.10%) Test Automation
17 21 (12.50%) Data Analytics
17 21 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 123 (73.21%) Python
2 82 (48.81%) SQL
3 22 (13.10%) C#
4 17 (10.12%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.14%) Bash
5 12 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.95%) Java
7 6 (3.57%) SAS Macro
7 6 (3.57%) Scala
8 4 (2.38%) R
9 2 (1.19%) PHP
9 2 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.60%) C
10 1 (0.60%) COBOL
10 1 (0.60%) Go
10 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 51 (30.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.95%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (26.19%) Data Quality
2 17 (10.12%) GDPR
3 6 (3.57%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.38%) QA
5 3 (1.79%) NIST
5 3 (1.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 21 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 83 (49.40%) Terraform
2 25 (14.88%) Grafana
3 22 (13.10%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.57%) Ansible
6 4 (2.38%) Puppet
6 4 (2.38%) Salt
7 3 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (19.64%) Databricks
2 16 (9.52%) Google
3 13 (7.74%) Splunk
4 9 (5.36%) Confluent
4 9 (5.36%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.76%) Oracle
6 6 (3.57%) Denodo
6 6 (3.57%) Tenable
7 5 (2.98%) Informatica
8 4 (2.38%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.79%) Adobe
9 3 (1.79%) Qualys
10 2 (1.19%) IBM
10 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.60%) GoldenSource