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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 406 267
Rank change year-on-year -92 -139 +304
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 172 162 337
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.49% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.08% 2.72% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 144 301
10th Percentile £407 £450 £500
25th Percentile £431 £550 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £581 £875 £888
90th Percentile £688 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £450 £507
% change year-on-year -1.11% -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 8,288 5,957 6,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.04% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,520 3,985 4,800
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £743 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £477
% change year-on-year - -0.42% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 93 86
10th Percentile £16.42 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.48 £30.96 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +16.06% -35.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +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 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 11 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 -118 146 £500 -33.33% 58
London -104 97 £525 -30.00% 42
Work from Home -116 60 £450 -40.00% 19
UK excluding London -70 51 £445 -1.11% 23
North of England -55 20 £425 -34.62% 5
South West -38 10 £450 -30.77% 4
Midlands -41 9 £469 +4.22% 4
Scotland -12 8 £417 -11.28% 3
Yorkshire -32 8 £451 -35.54% 2
North East -40 8 £371 -10.00% 1
West Midlands -42 7 £469 +4.22% 1
North West -39 4 £565 -13.15% 2
South East -61 4 £525 +22.09% 5
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 3
East of England -32 1 £475 +5.56% 2

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 30 (17.44%) Apache
1 30 (17.44%) Apache Spark
2 29 (16.86%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (13.95%) Confluence
4 12 (6.98%) SAS
5 10 (5.81%) Jupyter
6 4 (2.33%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 164 (95.35%) AWS
2 139 (80.81%) Amazon S3
3 117 (68.02%) Serverless
4 112 (65.12%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (33.72%) Amazon EMR
6 52 (30.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (28.49%) Power Platform
8 36 (20.93%) AWS Step Functions
9 33 (19.19%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (16.86%) dbt
11 27 (15.70%) Azure
12 26 (15.12%) GitHub
13 19 (11.05%) Amazon Kinesis
14 15 (8.72%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (8.14%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (7.56%) Amazon Bedrock
16 13 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Firewall
1 2 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (41.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 48 (27.91%) Power BI
3 45 (26.16%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (22.09%) DynamoDB
5 37 (21.51%) Data Lake
6 25 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (13.95%) Apache Iceberg
8 16 (9.30%) Tableau
9 14 (8.14%) Big Data
10 11 (6.40%) Metadata
11 9 (5.23%) Amazon QuickSight
12 8 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (4.07%) Data Vault
14 6 (3.49%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (3.49%) MySQL
14 6 (3.49%) Parquet
14 6 (3.49%) Pentaho
14 6 (3.49%) PowerCenter
15 5 (2.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (30.81%) GitLab
2 46 (26.74%) Git
3 27 (15.70%) JIRA
4 5 (2.91%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.91%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.74%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.74%) JUnit
6 3 (1.74%) Mockito
6 3 (1.74%) Postman
7 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 40 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 33 (19.19%) Finance
3 31 (18.02%) Social Skills
4 25 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.88%) Banking
6 7 (4.07%) Back Office
7 6 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Military
8 4 (2.33%) Front Office
9 3 (1.74%) Legal
9 3 (1.74%) Publishing
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Law
10 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.16%) Police
10 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (46.51%) Data Engineer
2 43 (25.00%) Senior
3 40 (23.26%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (19.19%) Senior Data Engineer
5 29 (16.86%) AWS Data Engineer
6 21 (12.21%) Architect
7 15 (8.72%) Developer
8 11 (6.40%) Analyst
8 11 (6.40%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.40%) Lead
9 10 (5.81%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Informatica Engineer
11 7 (4.07%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.07%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.49%) AWS Data Architect
12 6 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.49%) Test Engineer
13 5 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.91%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (50.58%) Terraform
2 45 (26.16%) PySpark
3 14 (8.14%) Kafka
4 13 (7.56%) React
5 5 (2.91%) YAML
6 4 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (2.33%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.74%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.74%) Next.js
7 3 (1.74%) SOAP
7 3 (1.74%) Spring
7 3 (1.74%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.74%) WireMock
8 2 (1.16%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.16%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.16%) Node.js
8 2 (1.16%) Pandas
8 2 (1.16%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (1.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.09%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.49%) NHS
2 6 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.91%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.33%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.74%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.16%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.16%) PACS
6 2 (1.16%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.16%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.49%) Linux
2 4 (2.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (54.07%) CI/CD
2 83 (48.26%) Data Pipeline
3 75 (43.60%) Analytics
4 74 (43.02%) Data Engineering
5 70 (40.70%) Business Intelligence
5 70 (40.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (36.05%) Data Modelling
7 58 (33.72%) ETL
8 52 (30.23%) Agile
9 48 (27.91%) DevOps
10 42 (24.42%) AI
11 34 (19.77%) Machine Learning
11 34 (19.77%) Test Automation
12 30 (17.44%) Migration
13 29 (16.86%) Data Governance
14 26 (15.12%) Data Architecture
15 24 (13.95%) Event-Driven
16 23 (13.37%) Dimensional Modelling
16 23 (13.37%) Observability
17 22 (12.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 127 (73.84%) Python
2 111 (64.53%) SQL
3 16 (9.30%) TypeScript
4 11 (6.40%) Bash
4 11 (6.40%) Java
5 7 (4.07%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.49%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.91%) C#
7 5 (2.91%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.33%) Scala
9 3 (1.74%) R
10 2 (1.16%) COBOL
11 1 (0.58%) Bicep
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
11 1 (0.58%) SAS Macro
11 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (40.12%) Security Cleared
2 63 (36.63%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.72%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 11 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.74%) Degree
6 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (37.79%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.81%) QA
3 4 (2.33%) GDPR
4 3 (1.74%) SLA
5 2 (1.16%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (15.70%) Docker
2 4 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (11.63%) Grafana
2 19 (11.05%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.81%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.49%) Ansible
5 4 (2.33%) Puppet
5 4 (2.33%) Salt
6 2 (1.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.37%) Informatica
2 13 (7.56%) Databricks
2 13 (7.56%) Oracle
2 13 (7.56%) Splunk
3 8 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.07%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.49%) Denodo
5 6 (3.49%) SnapLogic
6 4 (2.33%) Tenable
7 3 (1.74%) Adobe
8 2 (1.16%) Confluent
8 2 (1.16%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.58%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.58%) Foundry
9 1 (0.58%) Google
9 1 (0.58%) IBM
9 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.58%) Palantir