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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 400 279
Rank change year-on-year -102 -121 +290
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 180 160 325
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.49% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.18% 2.68% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 144 290
10th Percentile £406 £456 £500
25th Percentile £430 £550 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £575 £875 £888
90th Percentile £688 - -
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 8,243 5,967 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 18.12% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 3,995 4,734
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 93 86
10th Percentile £16.42 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £29.33 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.50 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.40 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -45.21%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -119 152 £500 -33.33% 103
London -118 101 £525 -30.00% 66
Work from Home -97 57 £450 -40.00% 29
UK excluding London -76 56 £440 -2.22% 41
North of England -63 22 £425 -34.62% 14
Scotland -16 10 £409 -12.98% 1
South West -34 10 £450 -30.77% 7
North East -34 9 £413 - 2
Yorkshire -39 9 £463 -33.93% 5
Midlands -41 9 £469 +4.22% 7
West Midlands -47 7 £469 +4.22% 2
South East -72 5 £525 +22.09% 6
North West -40 4 £565 -13.15% 7
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 5
East of England -29 1 £475 +5.56% 4

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 (17.78%) Apache Spark
2 31 (17.22%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (16.67%) Apache
4 22 (12.22%) Confluence
5 12 (6.67%) SAS
6 10 (5.56%) Jupyter
7 4 (2.22%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 172 (95.56%) AWS
2 147 (81.67%) Amazon S3
3 119 (66.11%) Serverless
4 114 (63.33%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (32.22%) Amazon EMR
6 55 (30.56%) Power Platform
7 54 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 39 (21.67%) AWS Step Functions
9 34 (18.89%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (17.22%) dbt
11 27 (15.00%) Azure
12 26 (14.44%) GitHub
13 23 (12.78%) Amazon Kinesis
14 17 (9.44%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (7.78%) Amazon Bedrock
15 14 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (7.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) Firewall
1 2 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (41.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 54 (30.00%) Power BI
3 49 (27.22%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (23.33%) DynamoDB
5 40 (22.22%) Data Lake
6 26 (14.44%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (12.78%) Apache Iceberg
8 22 (12.22%) Tableau
9 14 (7.78%) Big Data
10 11 (6.11%) Metadata
11 10 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
12 8 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (3.89%) Data Vault
13 7 (3.89%) Delta Lake
14 6 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (3.33%) MySQL
14 6 (3.33%) Pentaho
14 6 (3.33%) PowerCenter
14 6 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (30.56%) GitLab
2 44 (24.44%) Git
3 24 (13.33%) JIRA
4 6 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.22%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.22%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.11%) JUnit
6 2 (1.11%) Mockito
6 2 (1.11%) Postman
6 2 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 40 (22.22%) Finance
1 40 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 35 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.44%) Banking
5 9 (5.00%) Back Office
5 9 (5.00%) Legal
6 6 (3.33%) Military
7 5 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.78%) Front Office
8 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.67%) Publishing
9 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.11%) Law
9 2 (1.11%) Police
9 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (47.22%) Data Engineer
2 44 (24.44%) Senior
3 41 (22.78%) AWS Engineer
4 34 (18.89%) Senior Data Engineer
5 31 (17.22%) AWS Data Engineer
6 20 (11.11%) Architect
7 16 (8.89%) Developer
8 13 (7.22%) Analyst
9 12 (6.67%) Lead
10 11 (6.11%) Data Architect
11 9 (5.00%) AWS Architect
11 9 (5.00%) Data Analyst
11 9 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.00%) Informatica Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.33%) AWS Data Architect
13 6 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.33%) Test Engineer
14 5 (2.78%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (48.33%) Terraform
2 47 (26.11%) PySpark
3 14 (7.78%) Kafka
4 12 (6.67%) React
5 6 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.22%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.67%) Next.js
7 3 (1.67%) YAML
8 2 (1.11%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.11%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.11%) LangChain
8 2 (1.11%) Node.js
8 2 (1.11%) REST
8 2 (1.11%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.11%) SOAP
8 2 (1.11%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.11%) Spring
8 2 (1.11%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.33%) NHS
2 6 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.78%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.22%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.67%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.11%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.11%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.11%) PACS
6 2 (1.11%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.11%) PropTech
6 2 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.89%) Linux
2 5 (2.78%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 88 (48.89%) Data Pipeline
3 81 (45.00%) Analytics
4 78 (43.33%) Data Engineering
5 76 (42.22%) Business Intelligence
6 72 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (36.67%) Data Modelling
8 62 (34.44%) ETL
9 49 (27.22%) Agile
9 49 (27.22%) DevOps
10 43 (23.89%) AI
11 35 (19.44%) Machine Learning
12 34 (18.89%) Migration
13 32 (17.78%) Test Automation
14 30 (16.67%) Data Governance
15 28 (15.56%) Validation
16 26 (14.44%) Event-Driven
16 26 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (13.89%) Data Architecture
17 25 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (71.67%) Python
2 121 (67.22%) SQL
3 15 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.56%) Bash
4 10 (5.56%) Java
5 6 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 6 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.22%) Scala
7 3 (1.67%) C#
7 3 (1.67%) R
8 2 (1.11%) COBOL
9 1 (0.56%) Bicep
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.56%) PHP
9 1 (0.56%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 63 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.44%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 11 (6.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.67%) Degree
6 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.11%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.56%) QA
3 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.67%) GDPR
3 3 (1.67%) SLA
4 2 (1.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 25 (13.89%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.67%) HDFS
3 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (11.11%) Grafana
2 18 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.33%) Ansible
5 4 (2.22%) Puppet
5 4 (2.22%) Salt
6 2 (1.11%) Control-M
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.33%) Informatica
2 14 (7.78%) Databricks
3 13 (7.22%) Oracle
3 13 (7.22%) Splunk
4 8 (4.44%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.89%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.33%) Denodo
6 6 (3.33%) SnapLogic
7 4 (2.22%) Tenable
8 3 (1.67%) Adobe
9 2 (1.11%) Confluent
9 2 (1.11%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.56%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.56%) Foundry
10 1 (0.56%) IBM
10 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.56%) Palantir