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 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 524 | 418 | 296 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -106 | -122 | +248 |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena | 156 | 143 | 290 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 0.28% | 0.43% | 0.78% |
| As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category | 1.90% | 2.38% | 4.41% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 121 | 130 | 255 |
| 10th Percentile | £402 | £450 | £500 |
| 25th Percentile | £429 | £520 | £581 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £750 | £800 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -33.33% | -6.25% | +32.23% |
| 75th Percentile | £625 | £825 | £888 |
| 90th Percentile | £700 | £875 | - |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £433 | £460 | £507 |
| % change year-on-year | -5.82% | -9.27% | -16.20% |
| 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.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills | 8,191 | 6,001 | 6,569 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK | 14.88% | 18.09% | 17.72% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5,449 | 4,029 | 4,416 |
| 10th Percentile | £356 | £338 | £350 |
| 25th Percentile | £419 | £413 | £425 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £505 | £500 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.00% | -4.76% | -2.33% |
| 75th Percentile | £625 | £625 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £717 | £734 | £778 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £475 | £475 | £485 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -2.06% | -3.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 307 | 82 | 89 |
| 10th Percentile | £17.17 | £20.78 | £17.50 |
| 25th Percentile | £21.63 | £29.00 | £21.25 |
| Median hourly rate | £40.18 | £40.25 | £30.21 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -0.16% | +33.22% | -39.58% |
| 75th Percentile | £57.50 | £64.94 | £53.75 |
| 90th Percentile | £74.68 | £80.00 | £70.10 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £41.00 | £36.00 | £30.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +13.89% | +20.00% | -40.00% |
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 Daily Rate Trend
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 20 October 2026.
Amazon Athena Hourly Rate Trend
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 20 October 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 | -120 | 130 | £510 | -32.00% | 78 |
| London | -115 | 86 | £530 | -29.33% | 46 |
| UK excluding London | -78 | 51 | £433 | -5.82% | 37 |
| Work from Home | -116 | 44 | £455 | -39.40% | 24 |
| North of England | -56 | 19 | £425 | -26.09% | 18 |
| Scotland | -19 | 10 | £409 | -19.80% | 4 |
| North East | -35 | 10 | £406 | -1.52% | 2 |
| Midlands | -36 | 9 | £469 | +4.22% | 6 |
| South West | -34 | 7 | £438 | -32.69% | 3 |
| West Midlands | -46 | 7 | £469 | +4.22% | 3 |
| South East | -58 | 6 | £563 | +30.81% | 2 |
| Yorkshire | -35 | 5 | £500 | -16.67% | 6 |
| North West | -46 | 4 | £565 | -13.15% | 10 |
| East Midlands | - | 2 | £466 | - | 3 |
| Northern Ireland | +4 | 1 | £600 | - | 3 |
Amazon Athena Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Database & Business Intelligence
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon Redshift | 46.8% | 73 |
| 2 | Data Warehouse | 30.1% | 47 |
| 3 | Power BI | 28.8% | 45 |
| 4 | Data Lake | 27.6% | 43 |
| 5 | DynamoDB | 21.8% | 34 |
| 6 | Amazon RDS | 20.5% | 32 |
| 7 | Apache Iceberg | 12.8% | 20 |
| 8 | Metadata | 7.1% | 11 |
| 8 | Tableau | 7.1% | 11 |
| 10 | Big Data | 5.8% | 9 |
| 10 | Delta Lake | 5.8% | 9 |
| 12 | PostgreSQL | 5.1% | 8 |
| 13 | Amazon QuickSight | 4.5% | 7 |
| 14 | Amazon Aurora | 3.8% | 6 |
| 14 | BusinessObjects | 3.8% | 6 |
| 14 | Pentaho | 3.8% | 6 |
| 14 | PowerCenter | 3.8% | 6 |
| 14 | SQL Server | 3.8% | 6 |
| 19 | Data Vault | 3.2% | 5 |
| 19 | Relational Database | 3.2% | 5 |