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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 366 278
Rank change year-on-year -113 -88 +315
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 180 180 339
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.55% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.21% 3.02% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 158 300
10th Percentile £350 £474 £500
25th Percentile £425 £638 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £888
90th Percentile £650 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £507
% change year-on-year -2.22% -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 8,139 5,969 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.19% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,404 4,040 5,090
10th Percentile £356 £342 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
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 255 90 104
10th Percentile £16.28 £19.20 £14.48
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.30 £78.83 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -141 147 £500 -33.33% 20
London -112 104 £515 -31.33% 14
Work from Home -94 71 £450 -40.98% 14
UK excluding London -65 53 £440 -2.22% 8
North of England -62 16 £425 -34.62% 3
Scotland -5 13 £313 -33.35% 1
Midlands -50 10 £472 +4.89%
South West -30 9 £450 -30.77% 2
North East -40 8 £371 -10.00% 2
Yorkshire -42 7 £433 -38.21% 1
West Midlands -59 7 £469 +4.22%
South East -69 5 £525 +23.53% 2
East Midlands - 2 £466 -
East of England -15 1 £475 +5.56%
North West -54 1 £700 +7.69%

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 32 (17.78%) Apache
2 31 (17.22%) Apache Spark
3 27 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (12.78%) Confluence
5 19 (10.56%) SAS
6 9 (5.00%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 176 (97.78%) AWS
2 148 (82.22%) Amazon S3
3 115 (63.89%) Serverless
4 111 (61.67%) AWS Lambda
5 60 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
6 52 (28.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 46 (25.56%) Power Platform
8 37 (20.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 36 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (16.11%) dbt
11 28 (15.56%) GitHub
12 25 (13.89%) Azure
13 23 (12.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (11.67%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (10.56%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (9.44%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (7.22%) Amazon Bedrock
17 13 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 12 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) Firewall
1 3 (1.67%) Network Security
1 3 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.56%) 4G
2 1 (0.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 44 (24.44%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (24.44%) Power BI
3 43 (23.89%) Data Lake
4 37 (20.56%) DynamoDB
5 24 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (11.67%) Apache Iceberg
7 15 (8.33%) Metadata
8 13 (7.22%) Big Data
8 13 (7.22%) Tableau
9 10 (5.56%) OLTP
9 10 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (4.44%) Amazon QuickSight
10 8 (4.44%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.89%) Mixpanel
12 6 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (3.33%) Base SAS
12 6 (3.33%) BigQuery
12 6 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (3.33%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 48 (26.67%) GitLab
2 44 (24.44%) Git
3 28 (15.56%) JIRA
4 9 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.78%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.22%) JUnit
7 4 (2.22%) Mockito
7 4 (2.22%) Postman
8 3 (1.67%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.56%) ERwin
10 1 (0.56%) MLflow
10 1 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 39 (21.67%) Finance
2 38 (21.11%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.11%) Social Skills
4 26 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (13.89%) Banking
6 8 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.22%) Back Office
8 3 (1.67%) Military
8 3 (1.67%) Publishing
8 3 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.11%) Billing
9 2 (1.11%) Front Office
9 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.11%) Law
9 2 (1.11%) Legal
9 2 (1.11%) Police
10 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (39.44%) Data Engineer
2 46 (25.56%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (18.89%) Senior
4 26 (14.44%) AWS Data Engineer
4 26 (14.44%) Senior Data Engineer
5 24 (13.33%) Architect
6 20 (11.11%) Developer
7 16 (8.89%) Lead
8 12 (6.67%) AWS Architect
8 12 (6.67%) Data Architect
8 12 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) AWS Data Architect
11 7 (3.89%) Analyst
11 7 (3.89%) Informatica Engineer
11 7 (3.89%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (3.33%) Principal Data Engineer
12 6 (3.33%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (27.78%) PySpark
2 20 (11.11%) Kafka
3 14 (7.78%) React
4 6 (3.33%) Great Expectations
5 5 (2.78%) OAuth
5 5 (2.78%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.78%) YAML
6 4 (2.22%) Gherkin
6 4 (2.22%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.22%) SOAP
6 4 (2.22%) Spring
6 4 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.22%) WireMock
7 3 (1.67%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.67%) JWT
7 3 (1.67%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.67%) Next.js
7 3 (1.67%) Node.js
7 3 (1.67%) Playwright
7 3 (1.67%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 53 (29.44%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.33%) NHS
4 5 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.22%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.67%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.67%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.11%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.11%) PACS
7 2 (1.11%) Pricing Data
7 2 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.78%) Linux
2 3 (1.67%) Unix
3 2 (1.11%) Windows
3 2 (1.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (60.56%) CI/CD
2 86 (47.78%) Analytics
3 81 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
4 78 (43.33%) Data Engineering
5 76 (42.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (39.44%) Data Modelling
7 67 (37.22%) Business Intelligence
8 64 (35.56%) DevOps
9 61 (33.89%) ETL
10 59 (32.78%) Agile
11 45 (25.00%) AI
12 38 (21.11%) Machine Learning
13 34 (18.89%) Data Governance
13 34 (18.89%) Migration
13 34 (18.89%) Observability
14 32 (17.78%) Test Automation
15 30 (16.67%) Data Architecture
16 28 (15.56%) Dimensional Modelling
17 26 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
18 24 (13.33%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 137 (76.11%) Python
2 103 (57.22%) SQL
3 17 (9.44%) TypeScript
4 14 (7.78%) Bash
5 13 (7.22%) C#
6 12 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.11%) Java
8 6 (3.33%) SAS Macro
9 5 (2.78%) Scala
10 3 (1.67%) R
10 3 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.11%) PHP
11 2 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.56%) Bicep
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) COBOL
12 1 (0.56%) Go
12 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 60 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.89%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.67%) Degree
7 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.11%) 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 67 (37.22%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.00%) GDPR
3 4 (2.22%) QA
4 3 (1.67%) SLA
5 2 (1.11%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 95 (52.78%) Terraform
2 25 (13.89%) Grafana
3 22 (12.22%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.78%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.89%) Ansible
6 5 (2.78%) Puppet
6 5 (2.78%) Salt
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.44%) Informatica
2 16 (8.89%) Databricks
3 13 (7.22%) Splunk
4 8 (4.44%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.44%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.89%) Oracle
6 6 (3.33%) Denodo
6 6 (3.33%) Google
7 4 (2.22%) Tenable
8 3 (1.67%) Adobe
8 3 (1.67%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.11%) Confluent
9 2 (1.11%) IBM
9 2 (1.11%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.56%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.56%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.56%) Qualys
10 1 (0.56%) SnapLogic