Amazon Athena Contracts

Amazon Athena
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon Athena skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon Athena over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 428 632
Rank change year-on-year +100 +204 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 198 174 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.40% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 2.38% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 149 58
10th Percentile £475 £488 £438
25th Percentile £550 £550 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £759
90th Percentile - - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -0.92%

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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Amazon Athena
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon Athena as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon Athena.

Daily rate trend for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Athena over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon Athena.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Top 11 Contract 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 April 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 +72 180 £750 -6.25% 65
London +58 166 £750 -6.25% 44
Work from Home +67 128 £775 -3.13% 30
UK excluding London +52 20 £525 -12.50% 23
Scotland +16 12 £525 -19.23% 2
South West +45 5 £650 +23.81% 5
North of England +27 2 - - 4
Midlands +23 1 £550 - 2
West Midlands +16 1 £550 - 1
North West +9 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - -

Amazon Athena
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 118 (59.60%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (45.45%) Apache
3 33 (16.67%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.02%) Confluence
5 2 (1.01%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 196 (98.99%) AWS
2 118 (59.60%) dbt
3 93 (46.97%) AWS Lambda
3 93 (46.97%) Serverless
4 66 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 58 (29.29%) GCP
5 58 (29.29%) Snowflake
6 46 (23.23%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (14.14%) OpenShift
8 27 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (13.13%) Dagster
10 24 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (9.60%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (7.07%) Azure
12 14 (7.07%) GitHub
13 11 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (5.05%) Power Platform
15 9 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
15 9 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (58.08%) Apache Iceberg
2 110 (55.56%) Dremio
3 99 (50.00%) Apache Arrow
4 68 (34.34%) Apache Ignite
5 49 (24.75%) Data Lake
6 34 (17.17%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (12.63%) DynamoDB
8 23 (11.62%) Tableau
9 19 (9.60%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (9.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (5.05%) NoSQL
10 10 (5.05%) Parquet
10 10 (5.05%) Power BI
11 7 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (3.54%) MySQL
12 6 (3.03%) Big Data
13 5 (2.53%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
14 4 (2.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (14.14%) Artifactory
2 6 (3.03%) GitLab
3 4 (2.02%) JIRA
4 3 (1.52%) Git
5 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.51%) Selenium
6 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.51%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 118 (59.60%) Finance
2 110 (55.56%) Front Office
3 58 (29.29%) Banking
4 45 (22.73%) Investment Banking
5 22 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 20 (10.10%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.02%) Military
9 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.01%) Marketing
9 2 (1.01%) Publishing
10 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (65.15%) AWS Engineer
2 87 (43.94%) Python Engineer
3 81 (40.91%) Data Engineer
4 72 (36.36%) Software Engineer
5 71 (35.86%) AWS Software Engineer
6 60 (30.30%) Developer
7 49 (24.75%) AWS Developer
8 47 (23.74%) Python Software Engineer
9 42 (21.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 36 (18.18%) Java Engineer
10 36 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (16.16%) Python Developer
12 31 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (15.66%) Senior
13 30 (15.15%) AWS DevOps
13 30 (15.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 23 (11.62%) AWS Data Engineer
15 21 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
16 18 (9.09%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (40.91%) PySpark
2 69 (34.85%) Pandas
3 64 (32.32%) NumPy
3 64 (32.32%) SciPy
4 40 (20.20%) gRPC
4 40 (20.20%) Protocol Buffers
5 38 (19.19%) Kafka
6 34 (17.17%) Node.js
7 33 (16.67%) React
8 28 (14.14%) J2EE
9 27 (13.64%) AngularJS
10 26 (13.13%) Vue
11 12 (6.06%) AWS CDK
12 11 (5.56%) Redux
13 8 (4.04%) JSON
14 7 (3.54%) boto
15 2 (1.01%) Plotly
16 1 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
16 1 (0.51%) pytest
16 1 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 71 (35.86%) Fixed Income
2 54 (27.27%) Equities
2 54 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (22.73%) Derivative
3 45 (22.73%) Hedge funds
4 12 (6.06%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.02%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.51%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.51%) NHS
8 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (66.67%) Agile
2 113 (57.07%) Software Engineering
3 111 (56.06%) Asset Management
4 73 (36.87%) DevOps
5 65 (32.83%) CI/CD
6 57 (28.79%) Data Engineering
7 47 (23.74%) Investment Management
8 37 (18.69%) Fintech
9 32 (16.16%) Migration
10 29 (14.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 28 (14.14%) Analytics
11 28 (14.14%) Open Source
12 26 (13.13%) Performance Attribution
12 26 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (11.62%) ETL
16 20 (10.10%) Data Management
17 15 (7.58%) Order Management
17 15 (7.58%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 166 (83.84%) Python
2 94 (47.47%) Java
3 70 (35.35%) SQL
4 61 (30.81%) TypeScript
5 58 (29.29%) JavaScript
6 28 (14.14%) Go
7 6 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.52%) Scala
9 2 (1.01%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.01%) R
10 1 (0.51%) Bash
10 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (16.16%) SC Cleared
1 32 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.58%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.04%) Degree
4 5 (2.53%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.51%) GDPR
2 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 42 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (31.82%) Terraform
2 44 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.01%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (4.04%) Databricks
1 8 (4.04%) Splunk
2 6 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.03%) Oracle
3 4 (2.02%) Google
3 4 (2.02%) Informatica
3 4 (2.02%) MuleSoft
3 4 (2.02%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.02%) Teradata
4 2 (1.01%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.01%) Cribl.io
4 2 (1.01%) TSYS
5 1 (0.51%) IBM
5 1 (0.51%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.51%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.51%) Talend
5 1 (0.51%) TOWER Software