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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 341 353
Rank change year-on-year -127 +12 +271
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 163 184 223
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.64% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.24% 3.38% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 167 197
10th Percentile £346 £475 £488
25th Percentile £430 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £602 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £525 £507
% change year-on-year -16.19% +3.55% -15.85%

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 7,283 5,448 7,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 18.92% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,900 3,738 5,227
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 96 148
10th Percentile £14.17 £20.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.12 £24.06 £20.93
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.12% -15.49% -31.73%
75th Percentile £70.47 £65.71 £61.53
90th Percentile £81.84 £78.10 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £31.64 £38.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -17.82% -32.40%

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 25 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 25 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 -154 134 £500 -33.33% 34
London -115 109 £525 -30.00% 17
Work from Home -94 58 £472 -39.10% 17
UK excluding London -92 35 £440 -16.19% 19
Scotland +3 11 £313 -40.38%
North of England -75 8 £425 +3.03% 12
Midlands -56 7 £469 -14.73% 2
West Midlands -58 6 £469 -14.73% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £425 - 2
South East - 5 £525 - 3
South West -32 3 £450 -30.77% 2
North East -25 2 £366 -11.21% 6
East of England - 1 £475 -
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 (20.25%) Apache Spark
2 31 (19.02%) Apache
3 21 (12.88%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (11.04%) SAS
5 13 (7.98%) Confluence
6 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 162 (99.39%) AWS
2 126 (77.30%) Amazon S3
3 85 (52.15%) Serverless
4 81 (49.69%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (25.77%) Power Platform
6 38 (23.31%) AWS Step Functions
7 35 (21.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 35 (21.47%) Amazon EMR
8 33 (20.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 28 (17.18%) Amazon SQS
9 28 (17.18%) GitHub
10 26 (15.95%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (15.34%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (12.88%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (12.88%) Azure
13 18 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (10.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (9.82%) Collibra
15 16 (9.82%) GCP
16 14 (8.59%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.45%) Firewall
1 4 (2.45%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.84%) Network Security
3 1 (0.61%) 4G
3 1 (0.61%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (29.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 40 (24.54%) Power BI
3 38 (23.31%) Data Lake
4 35 (21.47%) DynamoDB
5 22 (13.50%) Apache Iceberg
5 22 (13.50%) OLTP
6 20 (12.27%) Mixpanel
7 17 (10.43%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (10.43%) Tableau
8 16 (9.82%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (9.82%) BigQuery
9 15 (9.20%) Metadata
9 15 (9.20%) OLAP
10 12 (7.36%) Amazon QuickSight
10 12 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (5.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (5.52%) Star Schema
12 8 (4.91%) Big Data
12 8 (4.91%) SQL Server
13 7 (4.29%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 34 (20.86%) GitLab
2 23 (14.11%) Git
3 19 (11.66%) JIRA
4 10 (6.13%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.68%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.45%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.45%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.45%) JUnit
6 4 (2.45%) Mockito
6 4 (2.45%) Postman
7 3 (1.84%) Snyk
7 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.61%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.61%) ERwin
8 1 (0.61%) MLflow
8 1 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (19.63%) Finance
2 21 (12.88%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.04%) Banking
5 15 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.84%) Military
7 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.23%) Billing
8 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) Law
8 2 (1.23%) Legal
8 2 (1.23%) Police
9 1 (0.61%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.61%) French Language
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (38.04%) Data Engineer
2 38 (23.31%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (13.50%) Senior
4 21 (12.88%) Lead
5 20 (12.27%) Architect
5 20 (12.27%) AWS Data Engineer
6 18 (11.04%) Developer
6 18 (11.04%) Principal Engineer
7 16 (9.82%) Principal Data Engineer
8 15 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (9.20%) Data Architect
9 12 (7.36%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 12 (7.36%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (6.13%) Software Engineer
12 9 (5.52%) Analyst
12 9 (5.52%) AWS Architect
12 9 (5.52%) Principal Software Engineer
13 8 (4.91%) AWS Data Architect
13 8 (4.91%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (25.15%) PySpark
2 38 (23.31%) Kafka
3 16 (9.82%) Great Expectations
4 14 (8.59%) React
5 9 (5.52%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.52%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (3.07%) OAuth
6 5 (3.07%) OAuth2
6 5 (3.07%) YAML
7 4 (2.45%) Gherkin
7 4 (2.45%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.45%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.45%) SOAP
7 4 (2.45%) Spring
7 4 (2.45%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.45%) WireMock
8 3 (1.84%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.84%) JWT
8 3 (1.84%) Next.js
8 3 (1.84%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 54 (33.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.68%) PACS
2 6 (3.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (3.07%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.45%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.45%) NHS
4 4 (2.45%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.84%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.23%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Unix
2 2 (1.23%) Windows
2 2 (1.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (55.21%) CI/CD
2 78 (47.85%) Analytics
3 71 (43.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (38.04%) Data Engineering
4 62 (38.04%) DevOps
5 61 (37.42%) Data Modelling
6 60 (36.81%) ETL
7 53 (32.52%) Data Pipeline
8 48 (29.45%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (26.99%) Observability
10 43 (26.38%) Agile
11 36 (22.09%) Data Governance
12 33 (20.25%) AI
13 32 (19.63%) Data Architecture
14 30 (18.40%) Migration
15 28 (17.18%) LLM
16 26 (15.95%) Machine Learning
17 21 (12.88%) Dimensional Modelling
17 21 (12.88%) Test Automation
18 20 (12.27%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 119 (73.01%) Python
2 82 (50.31%) SQL
3 23 (14.11%) C#
4 17 (10.43%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.36%) Bash
5 12 (7.36%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.75%) Java
7 6 (3.68%) SAS Macro
7 6 (3.68%) Scala
8 4 (2.45%) R
9 2 (1.23%) PHP
9 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.61%) C
10 1 (0.61%) COBOL
10 1 (0.61%) Go
10 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 51 (31.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.68%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (28.22%) Data Quality
2 17 (10.43%) GDPR
3 6 (3.68%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.45%) QA
5 3 (1.84%) NIST
5 3 (1.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.61%) IFRS
6 1 (0.61%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 23 (14.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 82 (50.31%) Terraform
2 25 (15.34%) Grafana
3 21 (12.88%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.59%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.68%) Ansible
6 4 (2.45%) Puppet
6 4 (2.45%) Salt
7 3 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (15.95%) Databricks
2 16 (9.82%) Google
3 13 (7.98%) Splunk
4 9 (5.52%) Confluent
5 8 (4.91%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.91%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.91%) Oracle
6 6 (3.68%) Denodo
6 6 (3.68%) Tenable
7 5 (3.07%) Informatica
8 4 (2.45%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.84%) Adobe
9 3 (1.84%) Qualys
10 2 (1.23%) IBM
10 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.61%) GoldenSource