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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 384 253
Rank change year-on-year -101 -131 +331
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 178 170 346
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.52% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.18% 2.86% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 147 309
10th Percentile £396 £450 £500
25th Percentile £430 £555 £674
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £597 £875 £888
90th Percentile £666 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £507
% change year-on-year - -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 8,172 5,949 7,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.31% 18.07% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,449 4,002 4,969
10th Percentile £358 £344 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £653
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 253 93 101
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.02 £15.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £27.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -39.74%

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 14 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 14 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 -121 149 £500 -33.33% 26
London -107 105 £520 -30.67% 18
Work from Home -79 66 £450 -40.00% 9
UK excluding London -73 49 £450 - 11
North of England -56 16 £425 -34.62% 5
South West -39 10 £450 -30.77% 2
Midlands -40 10 £472 +4.89% 1
Scotland -4 8 £417 -11.28% 2
North East -38 8 £371 -10.00%
Yorkshire -34 7 £433 -38.21% 4
West Midlands -48 7 £469 +4.22%
South East -71 5 £525 +23.53% 1
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 1
East of England -19 1 £475 +5.56%
North West -45 1 £700 +7.69% 1

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 (18.54%) Apache Spark
2 31 (17.42%) Apache
3 28 (15.73%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (12.92%) Confluence
5 19 (10.67%) SAS
6 9 (5.06%) Jupyter
7 4 (2.25%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 173 (97.19%) AWS
2 146 (82.02%) Amazon S3
3 117 (65.73%) Serverless
4 112 (62.92%) AWS Lambda
5 62 (34.83%) Amazon EMR
6 49 (27.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 49 (27.53%) Power Platform
7 38 (21.35%) AWS Step Functions
8 32 (17.98%) Amazon EC2
9 31 (17.42%) dbt
10 30 (16.85%) GitHub
11 27 (15.17%) Azure
12 20 (11.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 19 (10.67%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (10.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (7.30%) Amazon Bedrock
16 13 (7.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 12 (6.74%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) Firewall
1 3 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.12%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) 4G
3 1 (0.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (42.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 49 (27.53%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (26.40%) Power BI
4 43 (24.16%) Data Lake
5 32 (17.98%) DynamoDB
6 27 (15.17%) Apache Iceberg
7 25 (14.04%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (7.87%) Metadata
8 14 (7.87%) Tableau
9 13 (7.30%) Big Data
10 10 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (5.06%) Amazon QuickSight
12 8 (4.49%) BigQuery
13 7 (3.93%) Data Vault
13 7 (3.93%) OLTP
13 7 (3.93%) Parquet
13 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
14 6 (3.37%) Base SAS
14 6 (3.37%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (3.37%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 50 (28.09%) GitLab
2 49 (27.53%) Git
3 28 (15.73%) JIRA
4 9 (5.06%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.37%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.81%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.25%) JUnit
7 4 (2.25%) Mockito
7 4 (2.25%) Postman
8 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.56%) ERwin
9 1 (0.56%) MLflow
9 1 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 42 (23.60%) Finance
2 36 (20.22%) Public Sector
3 31 (17.42%) Social Skills
4 27 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (14.04%) Banking
6 8 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.81%) Back Office
8 3 (1.69%) Military
8 3 (1.69%) Publishing
8 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.12%) Billing
9 2 (1.12%) Front Office
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Law
9 2 (1.12%) Legal
9 2 (1.12%) Police
10 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (42.13%) Data Engineer
2 46 (25.84%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (19.66%) Senior
4 28 (15.73%) AWS Data Engineer
4 28 (15.73%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (12.92%) Architect
6 20 (11.24%) Developer
7 17 (9.55%) Lead
8 13 (7.30%) Data Architect
9 12 (6.74%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Informatica Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Analyst
11 8 (4.49%) AWS Data Architect
11 8 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.37%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (3.37%) Python Developer
13 5 (2.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (2.81%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (26.97%) PySpark
2 21 (11.80%) Kafka
3 14 (7.87%) React
4 6 (3.37%) YAML
5 5 (2.81%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.25%) Gherkin
6 4 (2.25%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.25%) SOAP
6 4 (2.25%) Spring
6 4 (2.25%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.25%) WireMock
7 3 (1.69%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.69%) Next.js
7 3 (1.69%) Node.js
7 3 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.12%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.12%) LangChain
8 2 (1.12%) Plotly
8 2 (1.12%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 46 (25.84%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.37%) NHS
2 6 (3.37%) Reference Data
3 5 (2.81%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.25%) Legacy Code
4 4 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.69%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.12%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.12%) PACS
6 2 (1.12%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.12%) VSAM
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.81%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (58.99%) CI/CD
2 82 (46.07%) Analytics
2 82 (46.07%) Data Pipeline
3 78 (43.82%) Data Engineering
4 75 (42.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (39.89%) Business Intelligence
6 69 (38.76%) Data Modelling
7 61 (34.27%) ETL
8 57 (32.02%) Agile
8 57 (32.02%) DevOps
9 44 (24.72%) AI
10 37 (20.79%) Machine Learning
11 34 (19.10%) Data Governance
11 34 (19.10%) Migration
11 34 (19.10%) Test Automation
12 30 (16.85%) Data Architecture
13 26 (14.61%) Observability
13 26 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (13.48%) Dimensional Modelling
15 23 (12.92%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 133 (74.72%) Python
2 108 (60.67%) SQL
3 17 (9.55%) TypeScript
4 14 (7.87%) Bash
5 12 (6.74%) Java
6 11 (6.18%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.62%) C#
8 7 (3.93%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.37%) SAS Macro
10 5 (2.81%) Scala
11 3 (1.69%) R
11 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.12%) COBOL
12 2 (1.12%) PHP
12 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.56%) Bicep
13 1 (0.56%) C
13 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 67 (37.64%) Security Cleared
2 58 (32.58%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.99%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (5.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.69%) Degree
7 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (35.39%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.93%) GDPR
2 7 (3.93%) QA
3 3 (1.69%) SLA
4 2 (1.12%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (16.29%) Docker
2 5 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 95 (53.37%) Terraform
2 21 (11.80%) Grafana
2 21 (11.80%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.18%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.93%) Ansible
5 5 (2.81%) Puppet
5 5 (2.81%) Salt
6 2 (1.12%) Control-M
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (11.80%) Informatica
2 17 (9.55%) Databricks
3 13 (7.30%) Splunk
4 12 (6.74%) Oracle
5 8 (4.49%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.49%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.37%) Denodo
7 4 (2.25%) Google
7 4 (2.25%) Tenable
8 3 (1.69%) Adobe
8 3 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.69%) SnapLogic
9 2 (1.12%) Confluent
9 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.56%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.56%) IBM
10 1 (0.56%) Qualys