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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 296 542
Rank change year-on-year -130 +246 +135
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 150 282 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.77% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 4.35% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 244 75
10th Percentile £414 £497 £474
25th Percentile £506 £563 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £514 £605
% change year-on-year -10.42% -15.12% -11.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,251 6,490 7,863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.26% 17.68% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,217 4,347 5,485
10th Percentile £335 £341 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 89 160
10th Percentile £20.72 £17.50 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £25.13
Median hourly rate £42.00 £30.59 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year +37.28% -36.86% -3.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.78 £66.75 £78.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +33.33% -35.95% +15.00%

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 October 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 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 30 October 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 -106 132 £750 -6.25% 34
London -76 111 £750 -6.25% 18
Work from Home -98 80 £750 -6.25% 8
UK excluding London -49 26 £460 -10.42% 28
North of England -47 8 £550 +8.48% 3
South East +15 7 £430 - 12
Midlands -20 5 £431 - 1
West Midlands -24 5 £431 - 1
Scotland -11 4 £510 +2.51% 1
North West -29 3 £650 +36.84% 1
Yorkshire -38 3 £600 +18.34% 1
North East - 3 £481 - 1
South West -5 1 £650 - 3
East of England - 1 £450 - 7
Northern Ireland - 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 72 (48.00%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (32.67%) Apache
3 11 (7.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 148 (98.67%) AWS
2 73 (48.67%) dbt
3 70 (46.67%) Amazon S3
4 46 (30.67%) Snowflake
5 44 (29.33%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (29.33%) Serverless
6 30 (20.00%) GCP
7 27 (18.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (13.33%) GitHub
9 15 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
10 14 (9.33%) Amazon SageMaker
10 14 (9.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 11 (7.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (7.33%) Azure
11 11 (7.33%) Power Platform
12 10 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (5.33%) Amazon Bedrock
13 8 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (45.33%) Apache Iceberg
2 63 (42.00%) Apache Arrow
2 63 (42.00%) Dremio
3 45 (30.00%) Data Lake
4 40 (26.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (25.33%) Apache Ignite
6 37 (24.67%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (14.67%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (7.33%) Power BI
10 10 (6.67%) Metadata
11 9 (6.00%) Big Data
12 8 (5.33%) Tableau
13 6 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (4.00%) DynamoDB
13 6 (4.00%) OLAP
13 6 (4.00%) OLTP
14 4 (2.67%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.67%) Delta Lake
14 4 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (9.33%) GitLab
2 9 (6.00%) Git
3 5 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.33%) JIRA
4 2 (1.33%) Maven
5 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.67%) JMeter
5 1 (0.67%) Locust
5 1 (0.67%) RStudio
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 69 (46.00%) Finance
2 63 (42.00%) Front Office
3 39 (26.00%) Banking
3 39 (26.00%) Investment Banking
4 27 (18.00%) Social Skills
5 15 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.67%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Military
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Retail
9 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (57.33%) AWS Engineer
2 66 (44.00%) Software Engineer
3 64 (42.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 58 (38.67%) Python Engineer
5 56 (37.33%) Python Software Engineer
6 45 (30.00%) Java Engineer
6 45 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 43 (28.67%) Senior
8 37 (24.67%) Senior Java Engineer
8 37 (24.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 37 (24.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 31 (20.67%) Developer
10 26 (17.33%) AWS Developer
11 25 (16.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 21 (14.00%) Architect
13 19 (12.67%) Data Engineer
13 19 (12.67%) Python Developer
14 13 (8.67%) Data Architect
15 11 (7.33%) AWS Architect
15 11 (7.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (46.00%) Pandas
2 68 (45.33%) NumPy
3 63 (42.00%) SciPy
4 38 (25.33%) gRPC
4 38 (25.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 28 (18.67%) Node.js
6 26 (17.33%) AngularJS
6 26 (17.33%) React
7 25 (16.67%) Vue
8 12 (8.00%) Kafka
9 8 (5.33%) PySpark
10 7 (4.67%) Hugging Face
11 5 (3.33%) PyTorch
11 5 (3.33%) scikit-learn
12 4 (2.67%) AWS CDK
12 4 (2.67%) RESTful
13 3 (2.00%) Great Expectations
13 3 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
13 3 (2.00%) Plotly
13 3 (2.00%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 63 (42.00%) Equities
1 63 (42.00%) Fixed Income
1 63 (42.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 39 (26.00%) Hedge funds
3 38 (25.33%) Derivative
3 38 (25.33%) Pricing Data
4 14 (9.33%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.00%) SCADA
7 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.67%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (52.67%) Agile
2 69 (46.00%) Asset Management
3 68 (45.33%) Software Engineering
4 63 (42.00%) Investment Management
5 37 (24.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (20.67%) DevOps
7 29 (19.33%) CI/CD
8 28 (18.67%) Data Modelling
9 27 (18.00%) ETL
10 26 (17.33%) Fintech
11 25 (16.67%) Order Management
11 25 (16.67%) Performance Attribution
11 25 (16.67%) Risk Management
12 24 (16.00%) Migration
13 21 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (13.33%) Analytics
15 19 (12.67%) Data Engineering
16 18 (12.00%) Machine Learning
16 18 (12.00%) Mentoring
17 14 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (68.00%) Python
2 67 (44.67%) JavaScript
3 64 (42.67%) TypeScript
4 49 (32.67%) Java
5 38 (25.33%) SQL
6 3 (2.00%) Scala
7 2 (1.33%) C#
7 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.67%) Perl
8 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.33%) SC Cleared
3 20 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 17 (11.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.67%) Degree
6 4 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.33%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.67%) GDPR
2 8 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.67%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.00%) NIST
5 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.33%) NCSC
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (33.33%) Terraform
2 11 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.33%) IBM
2 5 (3.33%) Databricks
2 5 (3.33%) Oracle
3 4 (2.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.67%) Sage
4 3 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (0.67%) Vertica