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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 350 362
Rank change year-on-year -132 +12 +260
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 167 176 231
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.61% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.25% 3.22% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 158 205
10th Percentile £313 £475 £488
25th Percentile £425 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +30.61%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £525 £507
% change year-on-year -18.10% +3.55% -15.85%

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 7,427 5,465 7,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 18.93% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,981 3,741 5,240
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 101 149
10th Percentile £14.26 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.01 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £32.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -17.98% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.99 £64.50 £61.50
90th Percentile £81.64 £76.25 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £30.82 £36.75
% change year-on-year +28.16% -16.14% -37.28%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -148 138 £494 -34.17% 25
London -101 110 £525 -30.00% 14
Work from Home -112 59 £469 -39.48% 12
UK excluding London -72 38 £430 -18.10% 14
Scotland +1 11 £313 -40.38%
North of England -69 11 £425 +3.03% 7
Midlands - 7 £469 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 £425 - 3
West Midlands - 6 £469 - 1
North East -21 5 £413 - 2
South East - 5 £525 - 4
South West -37 3 £450 -30.77% 2
East of England - 1 £475 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -

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 34 (20.36%) Apache Spark
2 32 (19.16%) Apache
3 23 (13.77%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (10.78%) SAS
5 13 (7.78%) Confluence
6 5 (2.99%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 165 (98.80%) AWS
2 128 (76.65%) Amazon S3
3 87 (52.10%) Serverless
4 83 (49.70%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (25.15%) Power Platform
6 39 (23.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 38 (22.75%) Amazon EMR
8 37 (22.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (18.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (16.77%) Amazon SQS
10 28 (16.77%) GitHub
11 26 (15.57%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (14.97%) Amazon Kinesis
13 24 (14.37%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (11.98%) Azure
15 18 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (9.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (8.98%) Collibra
17 15 (8.98%) GCP
18 14 (8.38%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) Firewall
1 4 (2.40%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) 4G
3 1 (0.60%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.34%) Amazon Redshift
2 40 (23.95%) Power BI
3 37 (22.16%) DynamoDB
4 36 (21.56%) Data Lake
5 22 (13.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 21 (12.57%) OLTP
7 19 (11.38%) Mixpanel
8 17 (10.18%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (10.18%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (10.18%) Tableau
9 15 (8.98%) BigQuery
9 15 (8.98%) Metadata
10 14 (8.38%) OLAP
11 13 (7.78%) Amazon QuickSight
12 12 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (5.39%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (5.39%) Big Data
13 9 (5.39%) SQL Server
13 9 (5.39%) Star Schema
14 7 (4.19%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 37 (22.16%) GitLab
2 25 (14.97%) Git
3 19 (11.38%) JIRA
4 10 (5.99%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.59%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.99%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.40%) JUnit
7 4 (2.40%) Mockito
7 4 (2.40%) Postman
8 3 (1.80%) Snyk
8 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.60%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.60%) ERwin
9 1 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (19.16%) Finance
2 22 (13.17%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.78%) Banking
5 7 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.80%) Military
6 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.20%) Billing
7 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Law
7 2 (1.20%) Legal
7 2 (1.20%) Police
8 1 (0.60%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.60%) French Language
8 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (37.72%) Data Engineer
2 38 (22.75%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (12.57%) Senior
4 20 (11.98%) Architect
4 20 (11.98%) AWS Data Engineer
4 20 (11.98%) Lead
5 19 (11.38%) Developer
6 17 (10.18%) Principal Engineer
7 15 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (8.98%) Data Architect
7 15 (8.98%) Principal Data Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 10 (5.99%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.39%) Analyst
11 9 (5.39%) AWS Architect
12 8 (4.79%) AWS Data Architect
12 8 (4.79%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (25.15%) PySpark
2 37 (22.16%) Kafka
3 15 (8.98%) Great Expectations
4 14 (8.38%) React
5 9 (5.39%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.39%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (2.99%) OAuth
6 5 (2.99%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.99%) YAML
7 4 (2.40%) Gherkin
7 4 (2.40%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.40%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.40%) SOAP
7 4 (2.40%) Spring
7 4 (2.40%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.40%) WireMock
8 3 (1.80%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.80%) JWT
8 3 (1.80%) Next.js
8 3 (1.80%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 55 (32.93%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.59%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.59%) PACS
2 6 (3.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.40%) NHS
4 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.40%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.80%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.40%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Unix
2 2 (1.20%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (56.89%) CI/CD
2 80 (47.90%) Analytics
3 75 (44.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (38.32%) DevOps
5 63 (37.72%) Data Modelling
6 61 (36.53%) Data Engineering
7 60 (35.93%) ETL
8 54 (32.34%) Data Pipeline
9 48 (28.74%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (26.95%) Agile
11 43 (25.75%) Observability
12 36 (21.56%) Data Governance
13 32 (19.16%) AI
14 31 (18.56%) Data Architecture
15 30 (17.96%) Migration
16 27 (16.17%) LLM
17 25 (14.97%) Machine Learning
18 23 (13.77%) Test Automation
19 22 (13.17%) Dimensional Modelling
20 20 (11.98%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 123 (73.65%) Python
2 84 (50.30%) SQL
3 22 (13.17%) C#
4 17 (10.18%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.38%) Bash
6 12 (7.19%) Java
6 12 (7.19%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.59%) SAS Macro
7 6 (3.59%) Scala
8 4 (2.40%) R
9 2 (1.20%) PHP
9 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.60%) C
10 1 (0.60%) COBOL
10 1 (0.60%) Go
10 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (37.13%) Security Cleared
2 54 (32.34%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (27.54%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.58%) GDPR
3 6 (3.59%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.40%) QA
5 3 (1.80%) NIST
5 3 (1.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 27 (16.17%) Docker
2 5 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 85 (50.90%) Terraform
2 26 (15.57%) Grafana
3 22 (13.17%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.98%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.19%) Ansible
6 5 (2.99%) Puppet
6 5 (2.99%) Salt
7 3 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (14.37%) Databricks
2 15 (8.98%) Google
3 13 (7.78%) Splunk
4 9 (5.39%) Confluent
5 8 (4.79%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.79%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.79%) Oracle
6 6 (3.59%) Denodo
6 6 (3.59%) Tenable
7 5 (2.99%) Informatica
8 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.80%) Adobe
9 3 (1.80%) Qualys
10 2 (1.20%) IBM
10 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.60%) GoldenSource