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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 306 523
Rank change year-on-year -120 +217 +145
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 150 263 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.72% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.36% 4.09% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 226 80
10th Percentile £413 £500 £466
25th Percentile £470 £563 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £507 £605
% change year-on-year -11.24% -16.20% -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 6,352 6,429 7,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.89% 17.63% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,327 4,272 5,413
10th Percentile £333 £341 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -1.08% -3.09%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 88 152
10th Percentile £20.78 £17.85 £17.13
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.81 £23.06
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.11 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.49% -34.81% +2.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £83.08 £64.81 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.75 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +45.22% -37.74% +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 13 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 13 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 -142 125 £650 -18.75% 30
London -92 104 £750 -6.25% 21
Work from Home -85 74 £750 -6.25% 22
UK excluding London -50 32 £450 -11.24% 22
Scotland +4 11 £404 -19.30% 10
South East +5 7 £430 - 7
North of England -40 7 £600 +18.34%
West Midlands -28 5 £431 - 3
Midlands -35 5 £431 - 3
North West -22 3 £650 +36.84%
Yorkshire -38 3 £600 +18.34%
North East - 2 £550 -
South West -6 1 £650 - 1
East of England - 1 £450 - 1
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 65 (43.33%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (31.33%) Apache
3 13 (8.67%) 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
Cloud Services
1 148 (98.67%) AWS
2 74 (49.33%) Amazon S3
3 64 (42.67%) dbt
4 51 (34.00%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (34.00%) Serverless
5 41 (27.33%) Snowflake
6 33 (22.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (18.00%) GCP
8 20 (13.33%) GitHub
9 18 (12.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (11.33%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
11 15 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
12 14 (9.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (7.33%) Azure
13 11 (7.33%) Power Platform
14 10 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (40.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 55 (36.67%) Apache Arrow
2 55 (36.67%) Dremio
3 41 (27.33%) Data Lake
4 40 (26.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (22.67%) Apache Ignite
6 33 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (14.67%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (12.67%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (7.33%) Power BI
10 9 (6.00%) Big Data
10 9 (6.00%) DynamoDB
10 9 (6.00%) Metadata
11 8 (5.33%) Tableau
12 6 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (4.00%) Delta Lake
12 6 (4.00%) OLAP
12 6 (4.00%) OLTP
13 5 (3.33%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (12.00%) GitLab
2 9 (6.00%) Git
3 7 (4.67%) JIRA
4 5 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.33%) Maven
5 2 (1.33%) MLflow
6 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.67%) JMeter
6 1 (0.67%) Locust
6 1 (0.67%) RStudio
6 1 (0.67%) Selenium
6 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (45.33%) Finance
2 55 (36.67%) Front Office
3 35 (23.33%) Banking
3 35 (23.33%) Investment Banking
4 29 (19.33%) Social Skills
5 18 (12.00%) 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%) iGaming
9 1 (0.67%) Military
9 1 (0.67%) Retail
9 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (54.00%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (38.67%) Software Engineer
3 56 (37.33%) AWS Software Engineer
4 52 (34.67%) Python Engineer
5 50 (33.33%) Python Software Engineer
6 41 (27.33%) Senior
7 39 (26.00%) Java Engineer
7 39 (26.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 33 (22.00%) Senior Java Engineer
8 33 (22.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 33 (22.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 28 (18.67%) Developer
10 23 (15.33%) Architect
11 22 (14.67%) AWS Developer
12 21 (14.00%) Data Engineer
12 21 (14.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 17 (11.33%) Python Developer
14 13 (8.67%) Data Architect
15 11 (7.33%) AWS Architect
16 10 (6.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (40.67%) Pandas
2 60 (40.00%) NumPy
3 55 (36.67%) SciPy
4 34 (22.67%) gRPC
4 34 (22.67%) Protocol Buffers
5 27 (18.00%) Node.js
6 22 (14.67%) AngularJS
6 22 (14.67%) React
7 21 (14.00%) Vue
8 12 (8.00%) Kafka
8 12 (8.00%) PySpark
9 7 (4.67%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.33%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.33%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.67%) AWS CDK
11 4 (2.67%) RESTful
12 3 (2.00%) Great Expectations
12 3 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (2.00%) Plotly
12 3 (2.00%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 55 (36.67%) Equities
1 55 (36.67%) Fixed Income
1 55 (36.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 35 (23.33%) Hedge funds
3 34 (22.67%) Derivative
3 34 (22.67%) Pricing Data
4 16 (10.67%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
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%) 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 74 (49.33%) Agile
2 61 (40.67%) Asset Management
3 60 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 55 (36.67%) Investment Management
5 44 (29.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (24.00%) CI/CD
7 34 (22.67%) DevOps
8 31 (20.67%) Migration
9 30 (20.00%) ETL
10 29 (19.33%) Data Modelling
11 25 (16.67%) Analytics
12 24 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (14.67%) Data Engineering
13 22 (14.67%) Fintech
14 21 (14.00%) Order Management
14 21 (14.00%) Performance Attribution
14 21 (14.00%) Risk Management
15 20 (13.33%) Mentoring
16 17 (11.33%) Machine Learning
17 16 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 102 (68.00%) Python
2 59 (39.33%) JavaScript
3 56 (37.33%) TypeScript
4 43 (28.67%) Java
5 40 (26.67%) 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 33 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.00%) 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
8 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.67%) GDPR
2 10 (6.67%) 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
7 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (34.00%) Terraform
2 10 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.33%) Databricks
1 8 (5.33%) IBM
2 7 (4.67%) Oracle
3 5 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.67%) Sage
5 3 (2.00%) Avaya
5 3 (2.00%) Cisco
5 3 (2.00%) Genesys
5 3 (2.00%) Google
5 3 (2.00%) Pega
5 3 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.67%) Vertica