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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 403 295
Rank change year-on-year -129 -108 +256
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 163 152 303
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.46% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.02% 2.53% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 138 267
10th Percentile £405 £450 £500
25th Percentile £430 £525 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -33.60% -6.25% +27.49%
75th Percentile £608 £825 £888
90th Percentile £700 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £460 £514
% change year-on-year -4.89% -10.42% -15.12%
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 8,087 6,019 6,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.82% 18.18% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,380 4,036 4,575
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £737 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 82 90
10th Percentile £16.73 £20.78 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +14.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £57.81 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -42.86%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -120 135 £504 -32.80% 81
London -111 92 £528 -29.60% 50
UK excluding London -67 50 £438 -4.89% 35
Work from Home -101 49 £450 -40.00% 22
North of England -63 18 £425 -26.09% 16
Scotland -18 10 £409 -19.80% 1
North East -32 9 £413 - 2
Midlands -37 9 £469 +4.22% 6
South West -21 8 £444 -31.73% 5
West Midlands -44 7 £469 +4.22% 1
Yorkshire -26 5 £500 -16.67% 6
South East -67 5 £525 +22.09% 3
North West -48 4 £565 -13.15% 8
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 5
Northern Ireland +3 1 £600 - 3

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 29 (17.79%) Apache
2 29 (17.79%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (12.88%) Confluence
4 11 (6.75%) Jupyter
5 9 (5.52%) SAS
6 4 (2.45%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.61%) Appian
7 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 153 (93.87%) AWS
2 134 (82.21%) Amazon S3
3 107 (65.64%) Serverless
4 103 (63.19%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (35.58%) Amazon EMR
6 52 (31.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 46 (28.22%) Power Platform
8 37 (22.70%) AWS Step Functions
9 35 (21.47%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (16.56%) Azure
11 26 (15.95%) dbt
12 25 (15.34%) Amazon Kinesis
13 22 (13.50%) GitHub
14 17 (10.43%) Amazon EventBridge
15 16 (9.82%) Amazon Bedrock
15 16 (9.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (8.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 13 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (7.98%) Amazon SQS
18 11 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Firewall
1 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (46.01%) Amazon Redshift
2 48 (29.45%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (27.61%) Power BI
4 41 (25.15%) Data Lake
5 39 (23.93%) DynamoDB
6 31 (19.02%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (13.50%) Apache Iceberg
8 14 (8.59%) Tableau
9 11 (6.75%) Big Data
10 10 (6.13%) Metadata
10 10 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (5.52%) Amazon QuickSight
12 8 (4.91%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (4.91%) Delta Lake
13 7 (4.29%) Data Vault
14 6 (3.68%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (3.68%) MySQL
14 6 (3.68%) Pentaho
14 6 (3.68%) PowerCenter
14 6 (3.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (34.36%) GitLab
2 41 (25.15%) Git
3 23 (14.11%) JIRA
4 6 (3.68%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.68%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.84%) Postman
5 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.23%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.23%) JUnit
6 2 (1.23%) MLflow
6 2 (1.23%) Mockito
6 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (23.31%) Finance
2 36 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 35 (21.47%) Public Sector
4 28 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.82%) Banking
6 9 (5.52%) Back Office
6 9 (5.52%) Legal
7 5 (3.07%) Front Office
8 4 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.45%) Military
9 3 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.84%) Publishing
10 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.61%) German Language
11 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Police
11 1 (0.61%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 83 (50.92%) Data Engineer
2 41 (25.15%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (23.31%) Senior
4 32 (19.63%) Senior Data Engineer
5 30 (18.40%) AWS Data Engineer
6 18 (11.04%) Architect
7 13 (7.98%) Developer
8 11 (6.75%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.75%) Lead
9 10 (6.13%) Analyst
10 9 (5.52%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.52%) Informatica Engineer
11 8 (4.91%) Data Analyst
12 7 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.68%) AWS Data Architect
13 6 (3.68%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.68%) Test Engineer
14 5 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
15 4 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
15 4 (2.45%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (49.08%) Terraform
2 42 (25.77%) PySpark
3 16 (9.82%) Kafka
4 8 (4.91%) React
5 6 (3.68%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.84%) YAML
7 2 (1.23%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.23%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.23%) Faiss
7 2 (1.23%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.23%) LangChain
7 2 (1.23%) Node.js
7 2 (1.23%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (1.23%) REST
7 2 (1.23%) SOAP
7 2 (1.23%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (1.23%) Spring
7 2 (1.23%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.23%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.68%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.68%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.45%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.84%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.84%) NHS
5 3 (1.84%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.23%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.23%) PACS
6 2 (1.23%) PropTech
6 2 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.23%) VSAM
7 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.68%) Linux
2 5 (3.07%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (57.06%) CI/CD
2 81 (49.69%) Data Pipeline
3 78 (47.85%) Data Engineering
4 73 (44.79%) Analytics
5 68 (41.72%) Business Intelligence
6 65 (39.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 63 (38.65%) ETL
8 61 (37.42%) Data Modelling
9 43 (26.38%) AI
9 43 (26.38%) DevOps
10 38 (23.31%) Agile
11 32 (19.63%) Test Automation
12 31 (19.02%) Data Governance
12 31 (19.02%) Machine Learning
13 29 (17.79%) Migration
14 27 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (15.34%) Validation
16 24 (14.72%) Data Architecture
16 24 (14.72%) Event-Driven
17 23 (14.11%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 117 (71.78%) Python
2 115 (70.55%) SQL
3 11 (6.75%) Java
4 8 (4.91%) Bash
4 8 (4.91%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.29%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.68%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.45%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.45%) Scala
8 3 (1.84%) C#
9 2 (1.23%) COBOL
10 1 (0.61%) Bicep
10 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.61%) Go
10 1 (0.61%) PHP
10 1 (0.61%) R
10 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (38.04%) Security Cleared
2 58 (35.58%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.27%) AWS Certification
4 12 (7.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (6.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.84%) Degree
7 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (43.56%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.36%) QA
3 4 (2.45%) GDPR
4 3 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.23%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (14.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) HDFS
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (10.43%) Grafana
2 14 (8.59%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.13%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.45%) Ansible
5 2 (1.23%) Control-M
5 2 (1.23%) Puppet
5 2 (1.23%) Salt
5 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (14.72%) Informatica
2 13 (7.98%) Databricks
2 13 (7.98%) Oracle
3 7 (4.29%) Dynatrace
3 7 (4.29%) Splunk
4 6 (3.68%) Denodo
4 6 (3.68%) SnapLogic
5 5 (3.07%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.84%) Tenable
7 2 (1.23%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.23%) Confluent
8 1 (0.61%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.61%) Foundry
8 1 (0.61%) IBM
8 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.61%) Palantir
8 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow