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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 360 317
Rank change year-on-year -95 -43 +294
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 186 179 280
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.60% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 3.22% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 160 249
10th Percentile £313 £490 £500
25th Percentile £425 £575 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £564 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £588 £507
% change year-on-year -27.66% +15.88% -22.30%

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 7,761 5,560 7,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 18.51% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,166 3,783 5,367
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 96 154
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.57 £20.82
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -12.53% -30.43%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.94 £54.03
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £33.47
% change year-on-year +18.52% -5.45% -39.15%

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 24 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 13 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 24 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 -118 155 £475 -36.67% 26
London -101 115 £500 -33.33% 16
Work from Home -86 76 £450 -41.94% 15
UK excluding London -68 48 £425 -27.66% 14
North of England -70 15 £419 -35.58% 4
Scotland -11 11 £313 -40.38%
South West -27 9 £450 -30.77% 5
North East -30 8 £371 -10.00% 1
Yorkshire -46 7 £433 -38.21% 2
Midlands - 7 £469 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £469 -
South East - 6 £525 - 3
East of England - 1 £475 -

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 (17.20%) Apache Spark
2 29 (15.59%) Apache
3 25 (13.44%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (12.37%) Confluence
5 19 (10.22%) SAS
6 8 (4.30%) 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
1 182 (97.85%) AWS
2 152 (81.72%) Amazon S3
3 115 (61.83%) Serverless
4 111 (59.68%) AWS Lambda
5 56 (30.11%) Amazon EMR
6 51 (27.42%) Power Platform
7 48 (25.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 37 (19.89%) AWS Step Functions
9 35 (18.82%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (16.13%) GitHub
11 28 (15.05%) Azure
12 26 (13.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (13.98%) dbt
13 25 (13.44%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (12.37%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (11.83%) Amazon Kinesis
16 18 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (6.99%) Amazon Bedrock
17 13 (6.99%) Amazon ECR
17 13 (6.99%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.15%) Firewall
1 4 (2.15%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.61%) Network Security
3 1 (0.54%) 4G
3 1 (0.54%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (39.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 49 (26.34%) Power BI
3 40 (21.51%) DynamoDB
4 39 (20.97%) Data Lake
5 38 (20.43%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (11.29%) Apache Iceberg
7 20 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (8.60%) Metadata
8 16 (8.60%) Tableau
9 14 (7.53%) OLTP
10 13 (6.99%) Mixpanel
11 11 (5.91%) Amazon QuickSight
11 11 (5.91%) Big Data
12 10 (5.38%) BigQuery
12 10 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (4.84%) OLAP
14 7 (3.76%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (3.76%) SQL Server
14 7 (3.76%) Star Schema
15 6 (3.23%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 49 (26.34%) GitLab
2 43 (23.12%) Git
3 29 (15.59%) JIRA
4 10 (5.38%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.23%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.23%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.69%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.69%) JUnit
6 5 (2.69%) Mockito
6 5 (2.69%) Postman
7 3 (1.61%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.08%) 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 (19.89%) Public Sector
2 35 (18.82%) Finance
3 29 (15.59%) Social Skills
4 23 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (11.29%) Banking
6 9 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.15%) Military
8 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.08%) Billing
9 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.08%) Law
9 2 (1.08%) Legal
9 2 (1.08%) Police
9 2 (1.08%) Publishing
10 1 (0.54%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.54%) French 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 (40.86%) Data Engineer
2 46 (24.73%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (15.59%) Senior
4 24 (12.90%) AWS Data Engineer
5 22 (11.83%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (11.29%) Architect
7 20 (10.75%) Developer
8 18 (9.68%) Lead
9 13 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (6.99%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (6.45%) Data Architect
10 12 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.91%) Principal Data Engineer
12 10 (5.38%) AWS Architect
13 8 (4.30%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (3.76%) Analyst
14 7 (3.76%) AWS Data Architect
14 7 (3.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 7 (3.76%) Informatica Engineer
15 6 (3.23%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (28.49%) PySpark
2 28 (15.05%) Kafka
3 14 (7.53%) React
4 10 (5.38%) Great Expectations
5 6 (3.23%) Apache Avro
5 6 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (3.23%) YAML
6 5 (2.69%) Gherkin
6 5 (2.69%) OAuth
6 5 (2.69%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.69%) SOAP
6 5 (2.69%) Spring
6 5 (2.69%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.69%) WireMock
7 4 (2.15%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.61%) JWT
8 3 (1.61%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.61%) Next.js
8 3 (1.61%) Playwright
8 3 (1.61%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 56 (30.11%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.23%) NHS
4 5 (2.69%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.15%) PACS
5 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.15%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.61%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.61%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.08%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.54%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Unix
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (62.90%) CI/CD
2 87 (46.77%) Analytics
3 80 (43.01%) Data Engineering
3 80 (43.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (38.71%) Data Pipeline
4 72 (38.71%) DevOps
5 69 (37.10%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (36.02%) Data Modelling
7 62 (33.33%) ETL
8 60 (32.26%) Agile
9 49 (26.34%) AI
10 41 (22.04%) Machine Learning
11 37 (19.89%) Data Architecture
11 37 (19.89%) Observability
12 36 (19.35%) Data Governance
13 34 (18.28%) Test Automation
14 31 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
15 29 (15.59%) Migration
16 25 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
17 23 (12.37%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 142 (76.34%) Python
2 102 (54.84%) SQL
3 18 (9.68%) C#
4 17 (9.14%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.60%) Bash
6 13 (6.99%) Java
7 12 (6.45%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.23%) SAS Macro
9 5 (2.69%) Scala
10 3 (1.61%) R
11 2 (1.08%) PHP
11 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.54%) C
12 1 (0.54%) COBOL
12 1 (0.54%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (39.25%) Security Cleared
2 64 (34.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.06%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.08%) 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 64 (34.41%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.45%) GDPR
3 4 (2.15%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.15%) QA
4 3 (1.61%) SLA
5 2 (1.08%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.54%) IFRS
6 1 (0.54%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 32 (17.20%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 103 (55.38%) Terraform
2 25 (13.44%) Grafana
3 23 (12.37%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.30%) Ansible
6 6 (3.23%) Puppet
6 6 (3.23%) Salt
7 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.22%) Databricks
2 17 (9.14%) Informatica
3 13 (6.99%) Splunk
4 10 (5.38%) Google
5 9 (4.84%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.30%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.76%) Oracle
8 6 (3.23%) Confluent
8 6 (3.23%) Denodo
9 5 (2.69%) Tenable
10 4 (2.15%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.61%) Adobe
12 2 (1.08%) OpenAI
12 2 (1.08%) Qualys
13 1 (0.54%) Ab Initio
13 1 (0.54%) GoldenSource
13 1 (0.54%) IBM