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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 401 275
Rank change year-on-year -97 -126 +299
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 179 162 323
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.49% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.18% 2.70% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 146 288
10th Percentile £406 £459 £500
25th Percentile £430 £550 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £573 £863 £888
90th Percentile £688 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £507
% change year-on-year -2.22% -11.24% -27.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 8,199 6,001 6,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.02% 18.24% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,479 4,012 4,751
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.84%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 89 89
10th Percentile £16.63 £21.24 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.07 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £43.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +24.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £75.10 £81.50 £71.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +4.06% +24.93% -45.45%

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 September 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 September 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 -113 151 £500 -33.33% 95
London -107 100 £525 -30.00% 59
UK excluding London -71 56 £440 -2.22% 40
Work from Home -111 56 £450 -40.00% 25
North of England -50 22 £425 -34.62% 13
Scotland -15 10 £409 -12.98% 1
South West -26 10 £450 -30.77% 8
North East -35 9 £413 - 2
Yorkshire -38 9 £463 -33.93% 5
Midlands -44 9 £469 +4.22% 6
West Midlands -43 7 £469 +4.22% 1
South East -63 5 £525 +22.09% 6
North West -46 4 £565 -13.15% 6
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 5
East of England -27 1 £475 +5.56% 4

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 (18.44%) Apache Spark
2 32 (17.88%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (17.32%) Apache
4 22 (12.29%) Confluence
5 11 (6.15%) Jupyter
5 11 (6.15%) SAS
6 4 (2.23%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 171 (95.53%) AWS
2 147 (82.12%) Amazon S3
3 119 (66.48%) Serverless
4 114 (63.69%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (32.40%) Amazon EMR
6 55 (30.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 55 (30.73%) Power Platform
7 39 (21.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 35 (19.55%) Amazon EC2
9 31 (17.32%) dbt
10 27 (15.08%) Azure
11 26 (14.53%) GitHub
12 23 (12.85%) Amazon Kinesis
13 17 (9.50%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (7.82%) Amazon Bedrock
14 14 (7.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (7.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (6.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) Firewall
1 2 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (40.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 54 (30.17%) Power BI
3 48 (26.82%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (24.02%) DynamoDB
5 39 (21.79%) Data Lake
6 26 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (12.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 22 (12.29%) Tableau
9 14 (7.82%) Big Data
10 11 (6.15%) Metadata
11 10 (5.59%) Amazon QuickSight
12 8 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (3.91%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (3.91%) Data Vault
13 7 (3.91%) Delta Lake
14 6 (3.35%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (3.35%) MySQL
14 6 (3.35%) Pentaho
14 6 (3.35%) PowerCenter
14 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (31.28%) GitLab
2 44 (24.58%) Git
3 24 (13.41%) JIRA
4 6 (3.35%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.23%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.23%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.23%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.12%) JUnit
6 2 (1.12%) Mockito
6 2 (1.12%) Postman
6 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 40 (22.35%) Public Sector
2 39 (21.79%) Finance
3 35 (19.55%) Social Skills
4 32 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.94%) Banking
6 9 (5.03%) Back Office
6 9 (5.03%) Legal
7 6 (3.35%) Military
8 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Front Office
9 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.68%) Publishing
10 2 (1.12%) Law
10 2 (1.12%) Police
10 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (47.49%) Data Engineer
2 44 (24.58%) Senior
3 41 (22.91%) AWS Engineer
4 34 (18.99%) Senior Data Engineer
5 31 (17.32%) AWS Data Engineer
6 20 (11.17%) Architect
7 16 (8.94%) Developer
8 13 (7.26%) Analyst
9 12 (6.70%) Lead
10 11 (6.15%) Data Architect
11 9 (5.03%) AWS Architect
11 9 (5.03%) Data Analyst
11 9 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) Informatica Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.35%) AWS Data Architect
13 6 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.35%) Test Engineer
14 5 (2.79%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (49.16%) Terraform
2 47 (26.26%) PySpark
3 14 (7.82%) Kafka
4 12 (6.70%) React
5 6 (3.35%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.23%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.68%) Next.js
7 3 (1.68%) YAML
8 2 (1.12%) Faiss
8 2 (1.12%) LangChain
8 2 (1.12%) LlamaIndex
8 2 (1.12%) Node.js
8 2 (1.12%) REST
8 2 (1.12%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.12%) SOAP
8 2 (1.12%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.12%) Spring
8 2 (1.12%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.12%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.23%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.35%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.35%) NHS
2 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.79%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.23%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.68%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.12%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.12%) PACS
6 2 (1.12%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.12%) PropTech
6 2 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.91%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (53.63%) CI/CD
2 88 (49.16%) Data Pipeline
3 80 (44.69%) Analytics
4 78 (43.58%) Data Engineering
5 75 (41.90%) Business Intelligence
6 73 (40.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (36.87%) Data Modelling
8 62 (34.64%) ETL
9 50 (27.93%) Agile
10 49 (27.37%) DevOps
11 43 (24.02%) AI
12 35 (19.55%) Machine Learning
13 33 (18.44%) Migration
14 32 (17.88%) Test Automation
15 30 (16.76%) Data Governance
16 28 (15.64%) Validation
17 26 (14.53%) Event-Driven
18 25 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
19 24 (13.41%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 130 (72.63%) Python
2 121 (67.60%) SQL
3 15 (8.38%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.59%) Bash
4 10 (5.59%) Java
5 6 (3.35%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.35%) PL/SQL
5 6 (3.35%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.23%) Scala
7 3 (1.68%) C#
7 3 (1.68%) R
8 2 (1.12%) COBOL
9 1 (0.56%) Bicep
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.56%) PHP
9 1 (0.56%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (39.11%) Security Cleared
2 64 (35.75%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.50%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 11 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.68%) Degree
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (41.90%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.59%) QA
3 3 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.68%) GDPR
3 3 (1.68%) SLA
4 2 (1.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 26 (14.53%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.68%) HDFS
3 3 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (11.17%) Grafana
2 18 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.59%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.35%) Ansible
5 4 (2.23%) Puppet
5 4 (2.23%) Salt
6 2 (1.12%) Control-M
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.41%) Informatica
2 14 (7.82%) Databricks
3 13 (7.26%) Oracle
3 13 (7.26%) Splunk
4 8 (4.47%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.91%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.35%) Denodo
6 6 (3.35%) SnapLogic
7 4 (2.23%) Tenable
8 3 (1.68%) Adobe
9 2 (1.12%) Confluent
9 2 (1.12%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.56%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.56%) Foundry
10 1 (0.56%) IBM
10 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.56%) Palantir