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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 326 431
Rank change year-on-year -128 +105 +211
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 169 198 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.68% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.34% 3.55% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 171 135
10th Percentile £354 £475 £480
25th Percentile £413 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £850
90th Percentile £638 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% -5.88%

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 7,233 5,584 7,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.77% 19.06% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,955 3,852 5,129
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.03% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 108 152
10th Percentile £18.23 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.90 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.63 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +61.19% -9.60% -39.70%

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 15 April 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 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 15 April 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 -155 139 £500 -33.33% 30
London -93 115 £506 -32.50% 15
Work from Home -95 54 £481 -37.90% 17
UK excluding London -86 37 £425 -19.05% 15
Scotland +8 15 £400 -23.81%
North of England -64 7 £433 - 8
Midlands -57 6 £533 -3.18% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £425 - 2
West Midlands -56 5 £475 -13.64%
South East -47 4 £525 -
South West -37 3 £450 -30.77% 2
North East -19 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -

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 37 (21.89%) Apache Spark
2 36 (21.30%) Apache
3 20 (11.83%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (7.10%) SAS
5 6 (3.55%) Confluence
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.59%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.59%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 168 (99.41%) AWS
2 128 (75.74%) Amazon S3
3 87 (51.48%) Serverless
4 84 (49.70%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (30.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (28.40%) AWS Step Functions
7 37 (21.89%) Power Platform
8 29 (17.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (15.98%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (15.38%) Amazon EMR
10 26 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (14.20%) GitHub
12 22 (13.02%) Azure
13 21 (12.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (11.83%) Amazon Kinesis
15 19 (11.24%) GCP
16 18 (10.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (10.65%) Collibra
17 17 (10.06%) dbt
17 17 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Firewall
1 4 (2.37%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.78%) Network Security
3 1 (0.59%) 4G
3 1 (0.59%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.59%) Amazon Redshift
2 36 (21.30%) Data Lake
2 36 (21.30%) Power BI
3 26 (15.38%) DynamoDB
4 23 (13.61%) OLTP
5 22 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (13.02%) Mixpanel
6 21 (12.43%) Tableau
7 19 (11.24%) BigQuery
8 17 (10.06%) OLAP
9 14 (8.28%) Metadata
10 13 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
11 11 (6.51%) Amazon QuickSight
11 11 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (5.33%) Star Schema
14 8 (4.73%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (4.14%) Big Data
15 7 (4.14%) SQL Server
16 6 (3.55%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 31 (18.34%) GitLab
2 26 (15.38%) Git
3 13 (7.69%) JIRA
4 8 (4.73%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.55%) MLflow
6 5 (2.96%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.37%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.78%) JUnit
8 3 (1.78%) Mockito
8 3 (1.78%) Postman
8 3 (1.78%) Snyk
9 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.59%) ERwin
10 1 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (21.89%) Finance
2 27 (15.98%) Social Skills
3 25 (14.79%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.88%) Banking
6 9 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.78%) Military
7 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.18%) Billing
8 2 (1.18%) Law
8 2 (1.18%) Police
9 1 (0.59%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.59%) French Language
9 1 (0.59%) iGaming
9 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 58 (34.32%) Data Engineer
2 35 (20.71%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (14.79%) Senior
4 22 (13.02%) Architect
4 22 (13.02%) Lead
5 20 (11.83%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (10.65%) Principal Data Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Analyst
8 15 (8.88%) AWS Data Engineer
8 15 (8.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (8.88%) Developer
9 14 (8.28%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 12 (7.10%) Data Architect
10 12 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.51%) Data Analyst
11 11 (6.51%) Principal Software Engineer
11 11 (6.51%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) AWS Architect
13 9 (5.33%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.44%) PySpark
2 37 (21.89%) Kafka
3 18 (10.65%) Great Expectations
4 8 (4.73%) Apache Avro
4 8 (4.73%) Protocol Buffers
4 8 (4.73%) React
5 5 (2.96%) OAuth
5 5 (2.96%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.37%) AWS CDK
6 4 (2.37%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (2.37%) Node.js
6 4 (2.37%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.37%) YAML
7 3 (1.78%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.78%) JWT
7 3 (1.78%) Plotly
7 3 (1.78%) SOAP
7 3 (1.78%) Spring
7 3 (1.78%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 50 (29.59%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.14%) NHS
3 5 (2.96%) PACS
3 5 (2.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (2.37%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.37%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.37%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.78%) IVR
5 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.78%) SCADA
6 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.18%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.59%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.59%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.59%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.78%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Unix
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
2 2 (1.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (54.44%) CI/CD
2 80 (47.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (44.97%) Analytics
4 70 (41.42%) Data Engineering
5 62 (36.69%) DevOps
6 61 (36.09%) ETL
7 60 (35.50%) Data Modelling
8 53 (31.36%) Data Pipeline
9 45 (26.63%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (23.67%) Agile
11 39 (23.08%) Migration
11 39 (23.08%) Observability
12 36 (21.30%) AI
12 36 (21.30%) Data Governance
13 32 (18.93%) Data Architecture
14 30 (17.75%) LLM
15 29 (17.16%) Machine Learning
16 22 (13.02%) Validation
17 21 (12.43%) Dimensional Modelling
17 21 (12.43%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 116 (68.64%) Python
2 86 (50.89%) SQL
3 23 (13.61%) C#
4 12 (7.10%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.51%) Bash
6 9 (5.33%) Java
6 9 (5.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.55%) SAS Macro
7 6 (3.55%) Scala
8 4 (2.37%) R
9 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.59%) C
10 1 (0.59%) COBOL
10 1 (0.59%) Go
10 1 (0.59%) PHP
10 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (34.32%) Security Cleared
2 50 (29.59%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.88%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (26.63%) Data Quality
2 26 (15.38%) GDPR
3 6 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.55%) NIST
4 5 (2.96%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.78%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.78%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.78%) PMO
5 3 (1.78%) QA
5 3 (1.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (10.65%) Docker
2 4 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) HDFS
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (49.11%) Terraform
2 20 (11.83%) Kubernetes
3 17 (10.06%) Grafana
4 12 (7.10%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.96%) Ansible
6 4 (2.37%) Puppet
6 4 (2.37%) Salt
7 3 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (20.12%) Databricks
2 18 (10.65%) Google
3 11 (6.51%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.51%) Splunk
4 8 (4.73%) Confluent
5 6 (3.55%) Oracle
6 5 (2.96%) Tenable
7 4 (2.37%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.78%) Adobe
8 3 (1.78%) Avaya
8 3 (1.78%) Cisco
8 3 (1.78%) Genesys
8 3 (1.78%) Pega
8 3 (1.78%) Qualys
8 3 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.18%) IBM
10 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.59%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.59%) OpenAI