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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 331 520
Rank change year-on-year -103 +189 +139
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 150 246 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.67% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.37% 3.78% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 209 79
10th Percentile £409 £494 £463
25th Percentile £453 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £525 £605
% change year-on-year -14.57% -13.22% -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 6,342 6,500 7,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 17.83% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 4,278 5,401
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -0.66% -3.09%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 88 147
10th Percentile £22.84 £18.35 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.88 £23.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -5.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £54.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.30 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.18% -40.45% +13.38%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -116 122 £625 -21.88% 16
London -69 101 £650 -18.75% 9
Work from Home -89 66 £750 -6.25% 7
UK excluding London -26 35 £449 -14.57% 17
Scotland +6 14 £411 -19.76% 3
South East +8 7 £430 - 5
North of England -39 7 £600 +4.35% 2
West Midlands -24 5 £431 -21.59% 2
Midlands -32 5 £431 -21.59% 3
North West -24 3 £650 +13.04% 1
Yorkshire -27 3 £600 - 1
North East - 2 £550 -
South West -1 1 £650 - 4
East of England - 1 £450 -
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 59 (39.33%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (31.33%) Apache
3 17 (11.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 148 (98.67%) AWS
2 82 (54.67%) Amazon S3
3 58 (38.67%) AWS Lambda
3 58 (38.67%) Serverless
4 55 (36.67%) dbt
5 38 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (24.00%) Snowflake
7 24 (16.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 23 (15.33%) GCP
9 20 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (13.33%) GitHub
10 18 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (11.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (11.33%) Amazon SageMaker
12 14 (9.33%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (8.00%) Azure
14 11 (7.33%) Power Platform
15 10 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (34.67%) Apache Iceberg
2 47 (31.33%) Apache Arrow
2 47 (31.33%) Dremio
3 43 (28.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 41 (27.33%) Data Lake
5 30 (20.00%) Apache Ignite
6 29 (19.33%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (7.33%) Power BI
10 10 (6.67%) Delta Lake
10 10 (6.67%) DynamoDB
11 9 (6.00%) Big Data
11 9 (6.00%) Metadata
12 7 (4.67%) OLAP
12 7 (4.67%) OLTP
12 7 (4.67%) Tableau
13 6 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (3.33%) BigQuery
14 5 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (15.33%) GitLab
2 10 (6.67%) Git
3 7 (4.67%) JIRA
4 6 (4.00%) MLflow
5 5 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.33%) Maven
7 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.67%) JMeter
7 1 (0.67%) Locust
7 1 (0.67%) RStudio
7 1 (0.67%) Selenium
7 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 62 (41.33%) Finance
2 47 (31.33%) Front Office
3 31 (20.67%) Banking
3 31 (20.67%) Social Skills
4 30 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 20 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.67%) Aerospace
7 6 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) iGaming
9 1 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (49.33%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (34.00%) Software Engineer
3 48 (32.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 46 (30.67%) Python Engineer
5 44 (29.33%) Python Software Engineer
6 43 (28.67%) Senior
7 33 (22.00%) Java Engineer
7 33 (22.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 29 (19.33%) Senior Java Engineer
8 29 (19.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 29 (19.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (17.33%) Developer
10 22 (14.67%) Architect
10 22 (14.67%) Data Engineer
11 20 (13.33%) AWS Developer
12 17 (11.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 15 (10.00%) Python Developer
14 13 (8.67%) Data Architect
15 12 (8.00%) Lead
16 11 (7.33%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.33%) Pandas
2 52 (34.67%) NumPy
3 47 (31.33%) SciPy
4 30 (20.00%) gRPC
4 30 (20.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 23 (15.33%) Node.js
6 17 (11.33%) AngularJS
6 17 (11.33%) PySpark
6 17 (11.33%) React
6 17 (11.33%) Vue
7 14 (9.33%) Kafka
8 7 (4.67%) Hugging Face
9 5 (3.33%) PyTorch
9 5 (3.33%) scikit-learn
10 4 (2.67%) AWS CDK
10 4 (2.67%) Great Expectations
10 4 (2.67%) RESTful
11 3 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (2.00%) Plotly
11 3 (2.00%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 47 (31.33%) Equities
1 47 (31.33%) Fixed Income
1 47 (31.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (20.67%) Hedge funds
3 30 (20.00%) Derivative
3 30 (20.00%) Pricing Data
4 17 (11.33%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.00%) IVR
6 3 (2.00%) NHS
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%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (43.33%) Agile
2 53 (35.33%) Asset Management
3 52 (34.67%) Software Engineering
4 47 (31.33%) Investment Management
5 46 (30.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (26.00%) CI/CD
7 37 (24.67%) DevOps
8 34 (22.67%) Migration
9 32 (21.33%) ETL
10 31 (20.67%) Data Modelling
11 29 (19.33%) Data Engineering
12 27 (18.00%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (17.33%) Analytics
14 21 (14.00%) Mentoring
15 19 (12.67%) Machine Learning
16 18 (12.00%) Fintech
17 17 (11.33%) Data Governance
17 17 (11.33%) Order Management
17 17 (11.33%) Performance Attribution
17 17 (11.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (68.00%) Python
2 51 (34.00%) JavaScript
3 48 (32.00%) TypeScript
4 45 (30.00%) SQL
5 37 (24.67%) Java
6 3 (2.00%) C#
6 3 (2.00%) Scala
7 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.67%) Perl
8 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 25 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 18 (12.00%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.33%) GDPR
2 14 (9.33%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.67%) HIPAA
4 6 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.00%) NIST
5 3 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.00%) PMO
6 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.33%) NCSC
7 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (5.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (36.00%) Terraform
2 12 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (8.67%) Databricks
2 8 (5.33%) IBM
3 7 (4.67%) Oracle
4 5 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.67%) Google
5 4 (2.67%) Sage
6 3 (2.00%) Avaya
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco
6 3 (2.00%) Genesys
6 3 (2.00%) Pega
6 3 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) Vertica