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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 353 481
Rank change year-on-year -111 +128 +151
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 137 178 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.58% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.06% 3.12% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 156 84
10th Percentile £370 £470 £428
25th Percentile £414 £522 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £675 £667
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% +1.24% +2.58%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £788
90th Percentile £650 £881 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £409 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -22.14% -4.55% -21.43%

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 6,653 5,702 7,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.34% 18.51% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,563 3,816 5,100
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 90 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £16.04
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.97% -9.87% -24.01%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.10 £70.38 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +82.83% -25.47% -28.04%

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 19 February 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 12 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 19 February 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 -125 104 £525 -22.22% 32
London -88 94 £525 -27.59% 14
Work from Home -93 43 £603 -20.98% 15
UK excluding London -55 28 £409 -22.14% 21
Scotland +14 18 £401 -23.62%
Midlands -63 4 £531 -3.41% 2
West Midlands -57 3 £413 -25.00% 1
North of England - 3 £525 - 11
South East -28 2 £525 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -
North East - 1 £550 - 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 33 (24.09%) Apache
2 26 (18.98%) Apache Spark
3 23 (16.79%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.92%) SAS
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.73%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 136 (99.27%) AWS
2 95 (69.34%) Amazon S3
3 65 (47.45%) AWS Lambda
3 65 (47.45%) Serverless
4 50 (36.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 38 (27.74%) AWS Step Functions
6 23 (16.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (16.79%) Amazon Kinesis
6 23 (16.79%) Power Platform
7 21 (15.33%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (14.60%) dbt
9 19 (13.87%) GCP
10 17 (12.41%) Amazon EMR
10 17 (12.41%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (12.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (11.68%) Azure
12 15 (10.95%) GitHub
13 14 (10.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (10.22%) Collibra
14 13 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) Network Security
2 1 (0.73%) 4G
2 1 (0.73%) 5G
2 1 (0.73%) Firewall
2 1 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (32.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 32 (23.36%) Data Lake
3 22 (16.06%) OLTP
3 22 (16.06%) Power BI
4 19 (13.87%) Apache Iceberg
4 19 (13.87%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (12.41%) DynamoDB
5 17 (12.41%) Mixpanel
5 17 (12.41%) OLAP
6 16 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (10.95%) BigQuery
8 14 (10.22%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (8.03%) Tableau
10 10 (7.30%) Apache Arrow
10 10 (7.30%) Dremio
10 10 (7.30%) Metadata
11 9 (6.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (5.11%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (5.11%) Delta Lake
13 6 (4.38%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 23 (16.79%) GitLab
2 15 (10.95%) Git
3 7 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.38%) MLflow
5 5 (3.65%) JIRA
6 2 (1.46%) Snyk
7 1 (0.73%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.73%) JMeter
7 1 (0.73%) JUnit
7 1 (0.73%) Locust
7 1 (0.73%) Maven
7 1 (0.73%) Mockito
7 1 (0.73%) Postman
7 1 (0.73%) RStudio
General
1 30 (21.90%) Finance
2 29 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.03%) Banking
5 10 (7.30%) Front Office
6 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.38%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Billing
10 1 (0.73%) iGaming
10 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.73%) Legal
10 1 (0.73%) Marketing
10 1 (0.73%) Military
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (32.85%) Data Engineer
2 38 (27.74%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (18.25%) Architect
4 22 (16.06%) Senior
5 21 (15.33%) Software Engineer
6 18 (13.14%) Data Architect
7 16 (11.68%) Python Engineer
8 15 (10.95%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (10.22%) AWS Data Engineer
9 14 (10.22%) Lead
9 14 (10.22%) Principal Data Engineer
10 13 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (8.76%) Analyst
12 11 (8.03%) AWS Architect
12 11 (8.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (8.03%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 11 (8.03%) Developer
12 11 (8.03%) Principal Software Engineer
13 10 (7.30%) AWS Software Engineer
13 10 (7.30%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (24.09%) Kafka
2 32 (23.36%) PySpark
3 15 (10.95%) Great Expectations
4 13 (9.49%) Protocol Buffers
5 11 (8.03%) Node.js
6 10 (7.30%) NumPy
6 10 (7.30%) Pandas
6 10 (7.30%) SciPy
7 7 (5.11%) Apache Avro
8 6 (4.38%) gRPC
9 5 (3.65%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.65%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (3.65%) OAuth
9 5 (3.65%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.65%) React
10 4 (2.92%) AWS CDK
10 4 (2.92%) Plotly
10 4 (2.92%) Vue
11 3 (2.19%) JWT
12 2 (1.46%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 38 (27.74%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.30%) Equities
2 10 (7.30%) Fixed Income
2 10 (7.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.38%) Derivative
3 6 (4.38%) Hedge funds
3 6 (4.38%) Pricing Data
4 4 (2.92%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.92%) PACS
4 4 (2.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.19%) IVR
5 3 (2.19%) NHS
5 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.19%) SCADA
6 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.46%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.46%) Linux
1 2 (1.46%) Windows
1 2 (1.46%) zOS
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (53.28%) CI/CD
2 62 (45.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (40.15%) ETL
4 54 (39.42%) Analytics
5 51 (37.23%) Data Modelling
5 51 (37.23%) DevOps
6 48 (35.04%) Data Engineering
7 38 (27.74%) Data Pipeline
8 34 (24.82%) Migration
9 31 (22.63%) Data Governance
10 29 (21.17%) Agile
11 28 (20.44%) Observability
12 27 (19.71%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (17.52%) AI
13 24 (17.52%) Data Architecture
14 23 (16.79%) Software Engineering
15 20 (14.60%) Machine Learning
16 18 (13.14%) LLM
17 17 (12.41%) Data Analytics
17 17 (12.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 98 (71.53%) Python
2 62 (45.26%) SQL
3 17 (12.41%) C#
4 15 (10.95%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.76%) Java
5 12 (8.76%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.65%) Scala
7 3 (2.19%) Bash
7 3 (2.19%) SAS Macro
8 2 (1.46%) R
9 1 (0.73%) COBOL
9 1 (0.73%) Go
9 1 (0.73%) PHP
9 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (32.85%) Security Cleared
2 40 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.68%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.63%) Data Quality
2 26 (18.98%) GDPR
3 6 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.65%) NIST
5 4 (2.92%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.92%) ISO 20022
6 3 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.19%) PMO
7 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.46%) QA
8 1 (0.73%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (6.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 68 (49.64%) Terraform
2 13 (9.49%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.11%) Grafana
4 5 (3.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.46%) Ansible
7 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.73%) Puppet
7 1 (0.73%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (19.71%) Databricks
2 14 (10.22%) Google
3 7 (5.11%) Confluent
3 7 (5.11%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.38%) Oracle
5 3 (2.19%) Avaya
5 3 (2.19%) Cisco
5 3 (2.19%) Genesys
5 3 (2.19%) Pega
5 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.46%) IBM
6 2 (1.46%) Qualys
6 2 (1.46%) Tenable
7 1 (0.73%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.73%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.73%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.73%) OpenAI