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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 348 499
Rank change year-on-year -96 +151 +150
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 147 193 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.58% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.31% 3.20% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 166 74
10th Percentile £406 £475 £471
25th Percentile £448 £524 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £654
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +3.17% +0.65%
75th Percentile £661 £850 £788
90th Percentile £825 £888 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -18.10% -4.55% -20.29%

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 6,369 6,030 7,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.22% 18.11% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,401 3,985 5,096
10th Percentile £325 £345 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
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% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 83 144
10th Percentile £20.72 £18.66 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.60 £23.08
Median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%
75th Percentile £72.57 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.00 £77.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +113.64% -40.45% -7.64%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -96 118 £525 -30.00% 49
London -64 101 £550 -26.67% 29
Work from Home -77 52 £750 -3.23% 16
UK excluding London -51 31 £430 -18.10% 25
Scotland +7 13 £405 -19.00%
South East -7 7 £430 - 7
West Midlands -25 5 £431 -21.59%
Midlands -40 5 £431 -21.59%
North of England -52 4 £525 -8.70% 7
North West -25 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £430 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 4
North East - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £450 - 7

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 46 (31.29%) Apache
2 45 (30.61%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (15.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 145 (98.64%) AWS
2 87 (59.18%) Amazon S3
3 65 (44.22%) AWS Lambda
3 65 (44.22%) Serverless
4 43 (29.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (26.53%) dbt
6 32 (21.77%) AWS Step Functions
7 28 (19.05%) Snowflake
8 20 (13.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (12.93%) GCP
10 18 (12.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (11.56%) Amazon Kinesis
11 17 (11.56%) Amazon SageMaker
11 17 (11.56%) Power Platform
12 16 (10.88%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (10.88%) Azure
13 15 (10.20%) Amazon EMR
14 14 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (9.52%) GitHub
15 10 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (34.01%) Amazon Redshift
2 41 (27.89%) Data Lake
3 40 (27.21%) Apache Iceberg
4 31 (21.09%) Apache Arrow
4 31 (21.09%) Dremio
5 22 (14.97%) Apache Ignite
6 21 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (13.61%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (13.61%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (11.56%) Power BI
9 14 (9.52%) OLTP
10 12 (8.16%) OLAP
11 10 (6.80%) BigQuery
11 10 (6.80%) Delta Lake
11 10 (6.80%) DynamoDB
12 9 (6.12%) Big Data
12 9 (6.12%) Mixpanel
12 9 (6.12%) Tableau
13 8 (5.44%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (5.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (14.97%) GitLab
2 10 (6.80%) Git
3 8 (5.44%) JIRA
4 6 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.08%) MLflow
5 2 (1.36%) Maven
6 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.68%) JMeter
6 1 (0.68%) Locust
6 1 (0.68%) RStudio
6 1 (0.68%) Snyk
General
1 47 (31.97%) Finance
2 31 (21.09%) Front Office
3 30 (20.41%) Social Skills
4 23 (15.65%) Banking
5 22 (14.97%) Investment Banking
6 20 (13.61%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.72%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) iGaming
10 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (40.82%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (26.53%) Software Engineer
3 36 (24.49%) Python Engineer
3 36 (24.49%) Senior
4 32 (21.77%) AWS Software Engineer
5 31 (21.09%) Data Engineer
5 31 (21.09%) Python Software Engineer
6 26 (17.69%) Architect
7 22 (14.97%) Java Engineer
7 22 (14.97%) Java Software Engineer
8 21 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
8 21 (14.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 21 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
9 17 (11.56%) Data Architect
10 16 (10.88%) Developer
11 13 (8.84%) AWS Architect
12 12 (8.16%) Analyst
13 11 (7.48%) AWS Data Engineer
13 11 (7.48%) AWS Developer
13 11 (7.48%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.17%) Pandas
2 36 (24.49%) NumPy
3 31 (21.09%) SciPy
4 26 (17.69%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (17.01%) Kafka
6 22 (14.97%) gRPC
7 21 (14.29%) PySpark
8 15 (10.20%) Node.js
9 9 (6.12%) AngularJS
9 9 (6.12%) Great Expectations
9 9 (6.12%) React
9 9 (6.12%) Vue
10 7 (4.76%) Hugging Face
11 5 (3.40%) PyTorch
11 5 (3.40%) scikit-learn
12 4 (2.72%) Apache Avro
12 4 (2.72%) AWS CDK
12 4 (2.72%) Lambda Expressions
13 3 (2.04%) Prophet
13 3 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.09%) Equities
1 31 (21.09%) Fixed Income
1 31 (21.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (17.01%) Cloud Native
3 23 (15.65%) Hedge funds
4 22 (14.97%) Derivative
4 22 (14.97%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.04%) IVR
6 3 (2.04%) NHS
6 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.04%) SCADA
7 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.36%) PACS
7 2 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.36%) Linux
1 2 (1.36%) Unix
2 1 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 48 (32.65%) Agile
4 46 (31.29%) DevOps
5 42 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 41 (27.89%) ETL
7 39 (26.53%) Data Engineering
8 38 (25.85%) Analytics
8 38 (25.85%) Data Modelling
9 37 (25.17%) Asset Management
10 33 (22.45%) Migration
11 32 (21.77%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (21.09%) Investment Management
13 23 (15.65%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (14.97%) Machine Learning
15 21 (14.29%) Data Governance
16 17 (11.56%) AI
17 16 (10.88%) Mentoring
18 15 (10.20%) Data Science
19 14 (9.52%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 102 (69.39%) Python
2 57 (38.78%) SQL
3 34 (23.13%) JavaScript
4 32 (21.77%) TypeScript
5 27 (18.37%) Java
6 8 (5.44%) C#
7 4 (2.72%) Scala
8 3 (2.04%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.36%) R
10 1 (0.68%) Bash
10 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 14 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.08%) Degree
6 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.37%) GDPR
2 20 (13.61%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.76%) HIPAA
4 6 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.72%) NIST
6 3 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.04%) PMO
7 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (5.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (42.86%) Terraform
2 12 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.36%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (12.93%) Databricks
2 9 (6.12%) Google
3 8 (5.44%) Oracle
4 5 (3.40%) IBM
4 5 (3.40%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.72%) Confluent
5 4 (2.72%) Sage
6 3 (2.04%) Avaya
6 3 (2.04%) Cisco
6 3 (2.04%) Genesys
6 3 (2.04%) Pega
6 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) Qualys
7 1 (0.68%) Tenable
7 1 (0.68%) Vertica