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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 354 335
Rank change year-on-year -107 -19 +270
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 184 182 269
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.61% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 3.28% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 163 238
10th Percentile £313 £478 £500
25th Percentile £425 £569 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £573 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £507
% change year-on-year -19.05% +3.55% -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 7,664 5,546 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 18.63% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,109 3,780 5,361
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 101 155
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.01 £20.88
Median hourly rate £41.71 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -12.50% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.58 £66.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £78.31 £78.70 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £31.85 £34.47
% change year-on-year +20.51% -7.60% -39.48%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -133 153 £475 -36.67% 36
London -87 114 £500 -33.33% 22
Work from Home -88 74 £450 -41.94% 16
UK excluding London -73 48 £425 -19.05% 19
North of England -62 15 £419 -35.58% 6
Scotland -8 11 £313 -40.38%
South West -21 9 £450 -30.77% 6
North East -31 8 £371 -10.00% 2
Yorkshire -55 7 £433 -38.21% 2
Midlands - 7 £469 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £469 -
South East - 5 £525 - 4
East of England - 1 £475 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 - 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 33 (17.93%) Apache Spark
2 30 (16.30%) Apache
3 26 (14.13%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (12.50%) Confluence
5 19 (10.33%) SAS
6 8 (4.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 180 (97.83%) AWS
2 149 (80.98%) Amazon S3
3 112 (60.87%) Serverless
4 108 (58.70%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (29.35%) Amazon EMR
6 50 (27.17%) Power Platform
7 47 (25.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 38 (20.65%) AWS Step Functions
9 34 (18.48%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (15.22%) Azure
11 27 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (14.67%) GitHub
12 25 (13.59%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (13.04%) Amazon Kinesis
13 24 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (13.04%) dbt
14 17 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (7.07%) Amazon Bedrock
15 13 (7.07%) Amazon ECR
15 13 (7.07%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.17%) Firewall
1 4 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.63%) Network Security
3 1 (0.54%) 4G
3 1 (0.54%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (39.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 48 (26.09%) Power BI
3 40 (21.74%) Data Lake
4 39 (21.20%) DynamoDB
5 35 (19.02%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (11.41%) Apache Iceberg
7 19 (10.33%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (8.70%) OLTP
8 16 (8.70%) Tableau
9 15 (8.15%) Metadata
10 14 (7.61%) Mixpanel
11 12 (6.52%) Amazon QuickSight
12 11 (5.98%) Big Data
12 11 (5.98%) BigQuery
12 11 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (5.43%) OLAP
14 8 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
14 8 (4.35%) Star Schema
15 6 (3.26%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 49 (26.63%) GitLab
2 39 (21.20%) Git
3 28 (15.22%) JIRA
4 10 (5.43%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.26%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.26%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.17%) JUnit
6 4 (2.17%) Mockito
6 4 (2.17%) Postman
7 3 (1.63%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.09%) Snyk
9 1 (0.54%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.54%) ERwin
9 1 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (20.11%) Public Sector
2 33 (17.93%) Finance
3 30 (16.30%) Social Skills
4 23 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.87%) Banking
6 9 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.17%) Military
8 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.09%) Billing
9 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.09%) Law
9 2 (1.09%) Legal
9 2 (1.09%) Police
9 2 (1.09%) Publishing
10 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.54%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (41.30%) Data Engineer
2 45 (24.46%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (15.22%) Senior
4 23 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
5 21 (11.41%) Architect
5 21 (11.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 20 (10.87%) Developer
7 18 (9.78%) Lead
8 14 (7.61%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (6.52%) Data Architect
10 12 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.52%) Principal Data Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) AWS Architect
12 8 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (3.80%) Analyst
13 7 (3.80%) AWS Data Architect
13 7 (3.80%) Informatica Engineer
13 7 (3.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (28.80%) PySpark
2 29 (15.76%) Kafka
3 14 (7.61%) React
4 11 (5.98%) Great Expectations
5 7 (3.80%) Apache Avro
5 7 (3.80%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (2.72%) OAuth
6 5 (2.72%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.72%) YAML
7 4 (2.17%) Gherkin
7 4 (2.17%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.17%) SOAP
7 4 (2.17%) Spring
7 4 (2.17%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.17%) WireMock
8 3 (1.63%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.63%) JWT
8 3 (1.63%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.63%) Next.js
8 3 (1.63%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 56 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.72%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (2.72%) NHS
4 5 (2.72%) PACS
4 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.17%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.63%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.63%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.09%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Unix
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 88 (47.83%) Analytics
3 81 (44.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (43.48%) Data Engineering
5 71 (38.59%) Data Pipeline
5 71 (38.59%) DevOps
6 67 (36.41%) Business Intelligence
7 66 (35.87%) Data Modelling
8 61 (33.15%) ETL
9 56 (30.43%) Agile
10 49 (26.63%) AI
11 42 (22.83%) Machine Learning
12 39 (21.20%) Observability
13 38 (20.65%) Data Architecture
14 35 (19.02%) Data Governance
15 33 (17.93%) Test Automation
16 31 (16.85%) Dimensional Modelling
17 30 (16.30%) Migration
18 25 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
19 23 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 142 (77.17%) Python
2 102 (55.43%) SQL
3 18 (9.78%) C#
4 17 (9.24%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.70%) Bash
6 12 (6.52%) Java
6 12 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.26%) SAS Macro
7 6 (3.26%) Scala
8 3 (1.63%) R
9 2 (1.09%) PHP
9 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.54%) C
10 1 (0.54%) COBOL
10 1 (0.54%) Go
10 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 63 (34.24%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.15%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (33.70%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.52%) GDPR
3 5 (2.72%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.17%) QA
5 3 (1.63%) SLA
6 2 (1.09%) NIST
7 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.54%) IFRS
7 1 (0.54%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 31 (16.85%) Docker
2 6 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 104 (56.52%) Terraform
2 26 (14.13%) Grafana
3 22 (11.96%) Kubernetes
4 16 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.35%) Ansible
6 6 (3.26%) Puppet
6 6 (3.26%) Salt
7 3 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.87%) Databricks
2 16 (8.70%) Informatica
3 13 (7.07%) Splunk
4 11 (5.98%) Google
5 9 (4.89%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.35%) Oracle
7 7 (3.80%) Confluent
8 6 (3.26%) Denodo
9 5 (2.72%) Tenable
10 4 (2.17%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.63%) Adobe
12 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
12 2 (1.09%) Qualys
13 1 (0.54%) GoldenSource
13 1 (0.54%) IBM