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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 279 569
Rank change year-on-year -121 +290 +145
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 160 325 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.85% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.68% 4.73% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 290 52
10th Percentile £456 £500 £439
25th Percentile £550 £675 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £605
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +32.23% +0.83%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £700
90th Percentile - - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £507 £700
% change year-on-year -11.24% -27.57% +12.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,967 6,865 8,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.12% 17.95% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,995 4,734 5,804
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -1.43% -1.32%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 86 158
10th Percentile £22.85 £17.50 £20.76
25th Percentile £29.33 £20.88 £32.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +22.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.19 £73.70
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £54.75
% change year-on-year +18.30% -45.21% +56.43%

Amazon Athena
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon Athena as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Athena 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 -96 145 £750 -6.25% 33
London -82 127 £750 -6.25% 26
Work from Home -98 100 £750 -6.25% 10
UK excluding London -10 20 £450 -11.24% 19
South East - 7 £430 - 14
North of England -18 6 £650 +28.21% 3
Scotland -13 3 £470 -14.55%
North West -15 3 £650 +36.84% 3
West Midlands -15 2 £450 -
Yorkshire -17 2 £700 +38.07%
Midlands -17 2 £450 -
North East - 2 £413 -
South West +22 1 £650 +15.56% 2
East of England - 1 £450 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Amazon Athena
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 93 (58.13%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (33.75%) Apache
3 8 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 158 (98.75%) AWS
2 94 (58.75%) dbt
3 59 (36.88%) Amazon S3
3 59 (36.88%) Snowflake
4 42 (26.25%) GCP
5 37 (23.13%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (23.13%) Serverless
6 19 (11.88%) GitHub
7 16 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (8.75%) Amazon EMR
10 13 (8.13%) Amazon SageMaker
11 12 (7.50%) Azure
12 11 (6.88%) Power Platform
13 9 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (4.38%) Amazon Bedrock
15 7 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (3.75%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (55.63%) Apache Iceberg
2 84 (52.50%) Apache Arrow
2 84 (52.50%) Dremio
3 53 (33.13%) Data Lake
4 48 (30.00%) Apache Ignite
4 48 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (19.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (15.63%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (6.88%) Metadata
8 11 (6.88%) Power BI
9 10 (6.25%) Big Data
10 7 (4.38%) DynamoDB
10 7 (4.38%) Tableau
11 4 (2.50%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (2.50%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.50%) OLAP
11 4 (2.50%) OLTP
11 4 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 16 (10.00%) GitLab
2 5 (3.13%) JIRA
3 4 (2.50%) Git
4 2 (1.25%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.63%) Zephyr
General
1 90 (56.25%) Finance
2 84 (52.50%) Front Office
3 50 (31.25%) Banking
4 49 (30.63%) Investment Banking
5 22 (13.75%) Social Skills
6 13 (8.13%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.38%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.25%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Military
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Publishing
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (65.00%) AWS Engineer
2 85 (53.13%) AWS Software Engineer
2 85 (53.13%) Software Engineer
3 72 (45.00%) Python Engineer
3 72 (45.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 60 (37.50%) Java Engineer
4 60 (37.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 50 (31.25%) Senior
6 48 (30.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 48 (30.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 48 (30.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 44 (27.50%) Developer
8 37 (23.13%) AWS Developer
9 36 (22.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 26 (16.25%) Python Developer
11 16 (10.00%) Architect
12 13 (8.13%) Data Engineer
12 13 (8.13%) Java Developer
13 12 (7.50%) Java Software Developer
14 10 (6.25%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (56.25%) Pandas
2 89 (55.63%) NumPy
3 84 (52.50%) SciPy
4 48 (30.00%) gRPC
4 48 (30.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 38 (23.75%) AngularJS
5 38 (23.75%) React
6 36 (22.50%) Node.js
6 36 (22.50%) Vue
7 11 (6.88%) Kafka
8 8 (5.00%) PySpark
9 6 (3.75%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.13%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.13%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.50%) RESTful
12 3 (1.88%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (1.88%) Plotly
12 3 (1.88%) Prophet
13 2 (1.25%) .NET
13 2 (1.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 84 (52.50%) Fixed Income
2 82 (51.25%) Equities
2 82 (51.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 49 (30.63%) Hedge funds
4 48 (30.00%) Derivative
4 48 (30.00%) Pricing Data
5 10 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (5.00%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.25%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.25%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (60.00%) Agile
2 88 (55.00%) Software Engineering
3 84 (52.50%) Asset Management
3 84 (52.50%) Investment Management
4 37 (23.13%) Fintech
5 36 (22.50%) Order Management
5 36 (22.50%) Performance Attribution
5 36 (22.50%) Risk Management
6 26 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (15.63%) ETL
8 24 (15.00%) Data Modelling
9 23 (14.38%) CI/CD
10 22 (13.75%) DevOps
10 22 (13.75%) Migration
11 19 (11.88%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (11.25%) Analytics
12 18 (11.25%) Data Engineering
13 17 (10.63%) Machine Learning
14 15 (9.38%) Data Science
15 13 (8.13%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 107 (66.88%) Python
2 88 (55.00%) JavaScript
3 84 (52.50%) TypeScript
4 64 (40.00%) Java
5 32 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Perl
7 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.13%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (6.88%) Degree
5 4 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.75%) GDPR
2 6 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.13%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.25%) QA
5 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (22.50%) Terraform
2 10 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (5.63%) IBM
2 6 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.13%) Google
4 4 (2.50%) Oracle
4 4 (2.50%) Sage
5 3 (1.88%) Databricks
5 3 (1.88%) Informatica
6 2 (1.25%) Teradata
6 2 (1.25%) TSYS
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.63%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.63%) Talend
7 1 (0.63%) Vertica