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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 379 268
Rank change year-on-year -116 -111 +324
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 174 174 346
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.53% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% 2.92% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 152 309
10th Percentile £404 £451 £500
25th Percentile £431 £562 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £888
90th Percentile £668 - -
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 8,170 5,955 7,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.14% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,460 4,003 4,949
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
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 251 96 100
10th Percentile £15.75 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £22.91 £29.00 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% +1.52% -37.34%
75th Percentile £58.13 £62.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -40.00%

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 20 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 20 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 -144 146 £500 -33.33% 14
London -114 103 £525 -30.00% 10
Work from Home -101 62 £450 -40.00% 10
UK excluding London -91 47 £445 -1.11% 6
North of England -49 15 £425 -34.62% 1
South West -30 10 £450 -30.77% 1
Midlands -48 9 £469 +4.22% 1
Scotland -11 8 £417 -11.28%
North East -33 8 £371 -10.00%
West Midlands -49 7 £469 +4.22%
Yorkshire -36 6 £433 -38.21% 1
South East -58 5 £525 +23.53% 2
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 1
East of England -19 1 £475 +5.56% 1
North West -39 1 £700 +7.69%

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 32 (18.39%) Apache Spark
2 31 (17.82%) Apache
3 29 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (13.22%) Confluence
5 14 (8.05%) SAS
6 10 (5.75%) Jupyter
7 4 (2.30%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 166 (95.40%) AWS
2 140 (80.46%) Amazon S3
3 115 (66.09%) Serverless
4 110 (63.22%) AWS Lambda
5 56 (32.18%) Amazon EMR
6 49 (28.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 47 (27.01%) Power Platform
8 37 (21.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 33 (18.97%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (17.24%) dbt
11 28 (16.09%) GitHub
12 25 (14.37%) Azure
13 19 (10.92%) Amazon Kinesis
14 18 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (7.47%) Amazon Bedrock
18 12 (6.90%) Amazon EventBridge
18 12 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) Firewall
1 3 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (41.95%) Amazon Redshift
2 46 (26.44%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (26.44%) Power BI
3 43 (24.71%) Data Lake
4 34 (19.54%) DynamoDB
5 26 (14.94%) Apache Iceberg
6 24 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (8.05%) Tableau
8 13 (7.47%) Big Data
9 12 (6.90%) Metadata
10 9 (5.17%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (4.02%) BigQuery
11 7 (4.02%) Data Vault
11 7 (4.02%) Parquet
12 6 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (3.45%) OLTP
12 6 (3.45%) Pentaho
12 6 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (29.89%) GitLab
2 47 (27.01%) Git
3 28 (16.09%) JIRA
4 8 (4.60%) 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%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.57%) ERwin
9 1 (0.57%) MLflow
9 1 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
General
1 37 (21.26%) Finance
1 37 (21.26%) Public Sector
2 33 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.07%) Banking
5 8 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.87%) Back Office
7 4 (2.30%) Military
8 3 (1.72%) Publishing
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
9 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
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 75 (43.10%) Data Engineer
2 42 (24.14%) AWS Engineer
3 37 (21.26%) Senior
4 29 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (14.94%) AWS Data Engineer
6 23 (13.22%) Architect
7 17 (9.77%) Developer
8 15 (8.62%) Lead
9 13 (7.47%) Data Architect
10 12 (6.90%) AWS Architect
11 9 (5.17%) Analyst
11 9 (5.17%) Informatica Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) AWS Data Architect
12 8 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) Python Developer
14 6 (3.45%) Data Analyst
14 6 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.45%) Test Engineer
15 5 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (51.72%) Terraform
2 44 (25.29%) PySpark
3 18 (10.34%) Kafka
4 14 (8.05%) React
5 6 (3.45%) YAML
6 4 (2.30%) Gherkin
6 4 (2.30%) Great Expectations
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%) Next.js
7 3 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.15%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.15%) Node.js
8 2 (1.15%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (1.15%) REST
8 2 (1.15%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.45%) NHS
2 6 (3.45%) Reference Data
3 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.30%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.72%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.15%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.15%) PACS
6 2 (1.15%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.15%) VSAM
7 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
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 98 (56.32%) CI/CD
2 81 (46.55%) Data Pipeline
3 78 (44.83%) Analytics
4 74 (42.53%) Data Engineering
5 72 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (40.23%) Business Intelligence
7 65 (37.36%) Data Modelling
8 57 (32.76%) ETL
9 55 (31.61%) Agile
10 51 (29.31%) DevOps
11 41 (23.56%) AI
12 34 (19.54%) Machine Learning
12 34 (19.54%) Test Automation
13 32 (18.39%) Data Governance
14 30 (17.24%) Migration
15 29 (16.67%) Data Architecture
16 25 (14.37%) Observability
17 23 (13.22%) Dimensional Modelling
17 23 (13.22%) Event-Driven
17 23 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 127 (72.99%) Python
2 107 (61.49%) SQL
3 17 (9.77%) TypeScript
4 13 (7.47%) Bash
5 11 (6.32%) Java
6 9 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.60%) C#
8 7 (4.02%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.30%) Scala
10 3 (1.72%) R
10 3 (1.72%) SAS Macro
10 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.15%) COBOL
11 2 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.57%) Bicep
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) PHP
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 70 (40.23%) Security Cleared
2 62 (35.63%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.62%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.32%) 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 60 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.17%) QA
3 6 (3.45%) GDPR
4 3 (1.72%) SLA
5 2 (1.15%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 28 (16.09%) Docker
2 5 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (12.07%) Grafana
2 20 (11.49%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.32%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.45%) Ansible
5 5 (2.87%) Puppet
5 5 (2.87%) Salt
6 2 (1.15%) Control-M
7 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (12.07%) Informatica
2 16 (9.20%) Databricks
3 13 (7.47%) Splunk
4 12 (6.90%) Oracle
5 8 (4.60%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.02%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.45%) Denodo
8 4 (2.30%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.72%) Adobe
9 3 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.72%) Google
9 3 (1.72%) Tenable
10 2 (1.15%) Confluent
11 1 (0.57%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.57%) IBM
11 1 (0.57%) OpenAI