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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 381 262
Rank change year-on-year -120 -119 +326
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 176 175 348
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.53% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 2.93% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 153 311
10th Percentile £404 £453 £500
25th Percentile £432 £550 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £888
90th Percentile £666 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £507
% change year-on-year -2.22% -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 8,218 5,975 7,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 18.12% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,485 4,011 4,930
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £605 £625 £650
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 96 99
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.02 £14.85
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £19.80
Median hourly rate £38.25 £35.50 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% +4.63% -38.31%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.44 £54.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £70.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -141 148 £500 -33.33% 12
London -120 104 £525 -30.00% 7
Work from Home -90 64 £450 -40.00% 9
UK excluding London -81 47 £440 -2.22% 7
North of England -51 16 £425 -34.62% 2
South West -32 10 £450 -30.77% 1
Scotland -10 8 £417 -11.28% 1
North East -38 8 £371 -10.00%
Midlands -39 8 £469 +4.22% 1
Yorkshire -35 6 £433 -38.21% 2
West Midlands -46 6 £469 +4.22%
South East -70 5 £525 +22.09% 1
North West -44 2 £700 +7.69%
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 1
East of England -18 1 £475 +5.56% 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 32 (18.18%) Apache
1 32 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 30 (17.05%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (14.20%) Confluence
4 15 (8.52%) SAS
5 10 (5.68%) Jupyter
6 4 (2.27%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 168 (95.45%) AWS
2 142 (80.68%) Amazon S3
3 117 (66.48%) Serverless
4 112 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (32.95%) Amazon EMR
6 51 (28.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (27.84%) Power Platform
8 37 (21.02%) AWS Step Functions
9 34 (19.32%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (17.61%) dbt
11 28 (15.91%) GitHub
12 27 (15.34%) Azure
13 19 (10.80%) Amazon Kinesis
14 18 (10.23%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (7.39%) Amazon Bedrock
17 13 (7.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 12 (6.82%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) Firewall
1 3 (1.70%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (42.61%) Amazon Redshift
2 48 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (27.27%) Power BI
3 44 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 35 (19.89%) DynamoDB
5 26 (14.77%) Apache Iceberg
6 25 (14.20%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (7.95%) Big Data
7 14 (7.95%) Tableau
8 12 (6.82%) Metadata
9 9 (5.11%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (3.98%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.98%) Data Vault
10 7 (3.98%) Parquet
11 6 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (3.41%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (3.41%) OLTP
11 6 (3.41%) Pentaho
11 6 (3.41%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 54 (30.68%) GitLab
2 49 (27.84%) Git
3 30 (17.05%) JIRA
4 8 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.41%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.84%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.27%) JUnit
7 4 (2.27%) Mockito
7 4 (2.27%) Postman
8 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.57%) ERwin
9 1 (0.57%) MLflow
9 1 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
General
1 40 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 36 (20.45%) Finance
3 33 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 26 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (11.36%) Banking
6 8 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.84%) Back Office
7 5 (2.84%) Military
8 3 (1.70%) Publishing
9 2 (1.14%) Front Office
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.14%) Law
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
9 2 (1.14%) Police
9 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (43.75%) Data Engineer
2 41 (23.30%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (22.73%) Senior
4 30 (17.05%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (14.77%) AWS Data Engineer
6 23 (13.07%) Architect
7 17 (9.66%) Developer
8 14 (7.95%) Lead
9 13 (7.39%) Data Architect
10 12 (6.82%) AWS Architect
11 10 (5.68%) Analyst
12 9 (5.11%) Informatica Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) AWS Data Architect
13 8 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.98%) Python Developer
15 6 (3.41%) Data Analyst
15 6 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (3.41%) Test Engineer
16 5 (2.84%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (51.70%) Terraform
2 46 (26.14%) PySpark
3 18 (10.23%) Kafka
4 14 (7.95%) React
5 6 (3.41%) YAML
6 4 (2.27%) Gherkin
6 4 (2.27%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.27%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.27%) SOAP
6 4 (2.27%) Spring
6 4 (2.27%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.27%) WireMock
7 3 (1.70%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.70%) Next.js
7 3 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.14%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.14%) Node.js
8 2 (1.14%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (1.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.41%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.41%) NHS
2 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.41%) Reference Data
3 5 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.27%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.70%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.14%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.14%) PACS
6 2 (1.14%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.14%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.84%) Linux
1 5 (2.84%) Unix
2 1 (0.57%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 82 (46.59%) Data Pipeline
3 77 (43.75%) Analytics
4 76 (43.18%) Data Engineering
5 73 (41.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 72 (40.91%) Business Intelligence
7 65 (36.93%) Data Modelling
8 59 (33.52%) ETL
9 56 (31.82%) Agile
10 52 (29.55%) DevOps
11 44 (25.00%) AI
12 36 (20.45%) Machine Learning
12 36 (20.45%) Test Automation
13 33 (18.75%) Data Governance
14 32 (18.18%) Migration
15 29 (16.48%) Data Architecture
16 25 (14.20%) Dimensional Modelling
16 25 (14.20%) Observability
17 23 (13.07%) Event-Driven
17 23 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 129 (73.30%) Python
2 110 (62.50%) SQL
3 17 (9.66%) TypeScript
4 13 (7.39%) Bash
5 11 (6.25%) Java
6 9 (5.11%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.55%) C#
8 7 (3.98%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.27%) Scala
11 3 (1.70%) R
12 2 (1.14%) COBOL
12 2 (1.14%) SAS Macro
12 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.57%) Bicep
13 1 (0.57%) C
13 1 (0.57%) PHP
13 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 72 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 64 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.66%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.70%) Degree
7 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (35.23%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) QA
3 6 (3.41%) GDPR
4 3 (1.70%) SLA
5 2 (1.14%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 29 (16.48%) Docker
2 5 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (11.93%) Grafana
2 20 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.98%) Ansible
5 5 (2.84%) Puppet
5 5 (2.84%) Salt
6 2 (1.14%) Control-M
7 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.07%) Informatica
2 16 (9.09%) Databricks
3 14 (7.95%) Oracle
4 13 (7.39%) Splunk
5 8 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.98%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.41%) Denodo
8 5 (2.84%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.70%) Adobe
9 3 (1.70%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.70%) Google
9 3 (1.70%) Tenable
10 2 (1.14%) Confluent
11 1 (0.57%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.57%) IBM
11 1 (0.57%) OpenAI