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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 400 285
Rank change year-on-year -109 -115 +278
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 171 158 312
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.48% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.09% 2.61% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 141 278
10th Percentile £406 £450 £500
25th Percentile £430 £525 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £578 £825 £888
90th Percentile £695 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £427 £460 £514
% change year-on-year -7.17% -10.42% -26.64%
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 8,193 6,058 6,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.92% 18.29% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,460 4,047 4,642
10th Percentile £352 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -5.57% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 88 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.13 £71.50
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 2 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 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 2 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 -114 144 £498 -33.60% 93
London -108 97 £523 -30.33% 58
UK excluding London -73 53 £427 -7.17% 39
Work from Home -112 53 £450 -40.00% 31
North of England -57 22 £425 -26.09% 12
Scotland -24 10 £409 -19.80% 1
Yorkshire -27 9 £440 -26.67% 4
South West -27 9 £450 -30.77% 7
North East -35 9 £413 - 2
Midlands -46 9 £469 +4.22% 8
West Midlands -35 7 £469 +4.22% 1
North West -49 4 £565 -13.15% 6
South East -66 4 £492 +14.42% 7
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 7

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 (19.30%) Apache Spark
2 29 (16.96%) Apache
2 29 (16.96%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (12.28%) Confluence
4 11 (6.43%) Jupyter
5 9 (5.26%) SAS
6 4 (2.34%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.58%) Appian
7 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 163 (95.32%) AWS
2 140 (81.87%) Amazon S3
3 114 (66.67%) Serverless
4 110 (64.33%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 57 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
6 52 (30.41%) Power Platform
7 37 (21.64%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (21.05%) AWS Step Functions
9 28 (16.37%) Azure
10 27 (15.79%) dbt
11 23 (13.45%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (12.87%) GitHub
13 16 (9.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (8.77%) Amazon EventBridge
14 15 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (8.19%) Amazon Bedrock
16 13 (7.60%) Amazon SageMaker
17 12 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) Firewall
2 2 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (43.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 51 (29.82%) Power BI
3 47 (27.49%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (23.39%) DynamoDB
5 39 (22.81%) Data Lake
6 28 (16.37%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (12.87%) Apache Iceberg
7 22 (12.87%) Tableau
8 12 (7.02%) Big Data
9 11 (6.43%) Amazon QuickSight
9 11 (6.43%) Metadata
10 10 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (4.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (4.68%) Delta Lake
12 7 (4.09%) Data Vault
12 7 (4.09%) MySQL
13 6 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (3.51%) Pentaho
13 6 (3.51%) PowerCenter
13 6 (3.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (33.92%) GitLab
2 42 (24.56%) Git
3 23 (13.45%) JIRA
4 6 (3.51%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.92%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.34%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.34%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.75%) Postman
8 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.17%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.17%) JUnit
8 2 (1.17%) MLflow
8 2 (1.17%) Mockito
8 2 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
General
1 40 (23.39%) Public Sector
2 38 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 36 (21.05%) Finance
4 30 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.36%) Banking
6 9 (5.26%) Back Office
6 9 (5.26%) Legal
7 6 (3.51%) Military
8 5 (2.92%) Front Office
9 3 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.75%) Publishing
10 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.17%) Law
10 2 (1.17%) Police
11 1 (0.58%) German Language
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (47.95%) Data Engineer
2 42 (24.56%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (22.81%) Senior
4 32 (18.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 31 (18.13%) AWS Data Engineer
6 18 (10.53%) Architect
7 13 (7.60%) Analyst
7 13 (7.60%) Developer
8 11 (6.43%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.43%) Lead
9 9 (5.26%) AWS Architect
9 9 (5.26%) Data Analyst
9 9 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Informatica Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) AWS Data Architect
10 6 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Test Engineer
11 5 (2.92%) Consultant
12 4 (2.34%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (50.88%) Terraform
2 42 (24.56%) PySpark
3 15 (8.77%) Kafka
4 8 (4.68%) React
5 6 (3.51%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.34%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.75%) YAML
8 2 (1.17%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.17%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.17%) Node.js
8 2 (1.17%) Pandas
8 2 (1.17%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (1.17%) REST
8 2 (1.17%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.17%) SOAP
8 2 (1.17%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.17%) Spring
8 2 (1.17%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.51%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.51%) NHS
2 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.34%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.75%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.75%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.17%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.17%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.17%) PACS
6 2 (1.17%) PropTech
6 2 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.09%) Linux
2 5 (2.92%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 83 (48.54%) Data Pipeline
3 79 (46.20%) Analytics
4 78 (45.61%) Data Engineering
5 74 (43.27%) Business Intelligence
6 71 (41.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 63 (36.84%) Data Modelling
8 59 (34.50%) ETL
9 49 (28.65%) DevOps
10 45 (26.32%) Agile
11 43 (25.15%) AI
12 35 (20.47%) Machine Learning
13 32 (18.71%) Migration
13 32 (18.71%) Test Automation
14 31 (18.13%) Data Governance
15 26 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (15.20%) Validation
16 24 (14.04%) Data Architecture
16 24 (14.04%) Event-Driven
17 22 (12.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 120 (70.18%) Python
2 117 (68.42%) SQL
3 10 (5.85%) Java
4 9 (5.26%) Bash
5 8 (4.68%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.09%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.51%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.34%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.34%) Scala
9 3 (1.75%) C#
10 2 (1.17%) COBOL
10 2 (1.17%) R
11 1 (0.58%) Bicep
11 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
11 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (40.35%) Security Cleared
2 64 (37.43%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.94%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 11 (6.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.75%) Degree
6 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.17%) 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 75 (43.86%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.43%) QA
3 4 (2.34%) GDPR
4 3 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.17%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (14.62%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.75%) HDFS
3 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.11%) Grafana
3 12 (7.02%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.51%) Ansible
5 4 (2.34%) Puppet
5 4 (2.34%) Salt
6 2 (1.17%) Control-M
6 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (14.04%) Informatica
2 13 (7.60%) Databricks
2 13 (7.60%) Oracle
3 12 (7.02%) Splunk
4 8 (4.68%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.09%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.51%) Denodo
6 6 (3.51%) SnapLogic
7 4 (2.34%) Tenable
8 3 (1.75%) Adobe
9 2 (1.17%) Confluent
9 2 (1.17%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.58%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.58%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.58%) Foundry
10 1 (0.58%) IBM
10 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.58%) Palantir
10 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow