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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 328 503
Rank change year-on-year -118 +175 +145
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 148 232 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.64% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.33% 3.59% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 198 77
10th Percentile £408 £488 £476
25th Percentile £450 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £775 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% +19.23% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £441 £525 £605
% change year-on-year -16.00% -13.22% -5.47%

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 6,352 6,465 7,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.43% 17.97% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,368 4,269 5,342
10th Percentile £327 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 88 143
10th Percentile £22.92 £18.35 £16.61
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.66 £21.50
Median hourly rate £46.50 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +47.41% -31.69% -7.64%
75th Percentile £69.25 £54.25 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.30 £65.30 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.35 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.36% -40.45% +2.62%

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 6 December 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 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 6 December 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 -100 119 £600 -25.00% 18
London -82 100 £628 -21.56% 11
Work from Home -87 63 £750 -6.25% 13
UK excluding London -43 33 £441 -16.00% 12
Scotland +8 14 £411 -19.76% 1
South East +1 7 £430 - 2
North of England -43 6 £550 -4.35% 5
West Midlands -25 5 £431 -21.59% 1
Midlands -35 5 £431 -21.59% 1
Yorkshire -33 3 £600 -
North West -24 2 - - 5
North East - 2 £550 -
East of England - 1 £450 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 55 (37.16%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (31.76%) Apache
3 19 (12.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 146 (98.65%) AWS
2 82 (55.41%) Amazon S3
3 58 (39.19%) AWS Lambda
3 58 (39.19%) Serverless
4 51 (34.46%) dbt
5 40 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (22.97%) Snowflake
7 25 (16.89%) AWS Step Functions
8 23 (15.54%) GCP
9 18 (12.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (12.16%) GitHub
9 18 (12.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (11.49%) Amazon SageMaker
11 14 (9.46%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (9.46%) Azure
12 13 (8.78%) Power Platform
13 11 (7.43%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (6.76%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (32.43%) Apache Iceberg
2 45 (30.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 43 (29.05%) Apache Arrow
3 43 (29.05%) Dremio
4 41 (27.70%) Data Lake
5 28 (18.92%) Apache Ignite
6 25 (16.89%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (14.19%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (8.78%) Power BI
10 10 (6.76%) Delta Lake
10 10 (6.76%) DynamoDB
11 9 (6.08%) Big Data
11 9 (6.08%) Metadata
11 9 (6.08%) OLAP
11 9 (6.08%) OLTP
12 7 (4.73%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (4.73%) BigQuery
12 7 (4.73%) Tableau
13 5 (3.38%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 21 (14.19%) GitLab
2 10 (6.76%) Git
3 8 (5.41%) JIRA
4 6 (4.05%) MLflow
5 5 (3.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) Locust
7 1 (0.68%) RStudio
7 1 (0.68%) Selenium
7 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (39.86%) Finance
2 43 (29.05%) Front Office
3 29 (19.59%) Banking
4 28 (18.92%) Investment Banking
4 28 (18.92%) Social Skills
5 20 (13.51%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.35%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) iGaming
9 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (47.30%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (32.43%) Software Engineer
3 44 (29.73%) AWS Software Engineer
3 44 (29.73%) Python Engineer
4 43 (29.05%) Senior
5 41 (27.70%) Python Software Engineer
6 30 (20.27%) Java Engineer
6 30 (20.27%) Java Software Engineer
7 27 (18.24%) Senior Java Engineer
7 27 (18.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 27 (18.24%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (16.22%) Developer
9 23 (15.54%) Architect
9 23 (15.54%) Data Engineer
10 18 (12.16%) AWS Developer
11 15 (10.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 14 (9.46%) Data Architect
12 14 (9.46%) Python Developer
13 11 (7.43%) AWS Architect
14 10 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (33.11%) Pandas
2 48 (32.43%) NumPy
3 43 (29.05%) SciPy
4 28 (18.92%) gRPC
4 28 (18.92%) Protocol Buffers
5 21 (14.19%) Node.js
6 17 (11.49%) Kafka
6 17 (11.49%) PySpark
7 15 (10.14%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.14%) React
7 15 (10.14%) Vue
8 7 (4.73%) Hugging Face
9 6 (4.05%) Great Expectations
10 5 (3.38%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.38%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.70%) AWS CDK
11 4 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (2.70%) RESTful
12 3 (2.03%) Plotly
12 3 (2.03%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.05%) Equities
1 43 (29.05%) Fixed Income
1 43 (29.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 29 (19.59%) Hedge funds
3 28 (18.92%) Derivative
3 28 (18.92%) Pricing Data
4 19 (12.84%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.03%) IVR
6 3 (2.03%) NHS
6 3 (2.03%) SCADA
7 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.03%) Linux
2 2 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.22%) Agile
2 50 (33.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 50 (33.78%) Software Engineering
3 49 (33.11%) Asset Management
4 43 (29.05%) Investment Management
5 42 (28.38%) CI/CD
6 40 (27.03%) DevOps
7 34 (22.97%) Data Modelling
7 34 (22.97%) ETL
8 33 (22.30%) Migration
9 31 (20.95%) Data Engineering
10 29 (19.59%) Analytics
11 27 (18.24%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (14.19%) Machine Learning
13 19 (12.84%) Data Governance
14 18 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (12.16%) Mentoring
15 16 (10.81%) Data Science
15 16 (10.81%) Fintech
16 15 (10.14%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 103 (69.59%) Python
2 48 (32.43%) SQL
3 47 (31.76%) JavaScript
4 44 (29.73%) TypeScript
5 35 (23.65%) Java
6 5 (3.38%) C#
7 3 (2.03%) Scala
8 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Perl
9 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 22 (14.86%) AWS Certification
4 15 (10.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.73%) Degree
6 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.89%) GDPR
2 16 (10.81%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.73%) HIPAA
4 6 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.03%) NIST
5 3 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.03%) PMO
6 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (6.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (39.19%) Terraform
2 13 (8.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Grafana
3 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (10.14%) Databricks
2 7 (4.73%) Oracle
3 6 (4.05%) Google
3 6 (4.05%) IBM
4 5 (3.38%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.70%) Sage
6 3 (2.03%) Avaya
6 3 (2.03%) Cisco
6 3 (2.03%) Genesys
6 3 (2.03%) Pega
6 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) Vertica