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 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 394 255
Rank change year-on-year -117 -139 +313
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 176 169 348
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.51% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 2.85% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 148 312
10th Percentile £405 £450 £500
25th Percentile £431 £550 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £594 £875 £888
90th Percentile £678 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £507
% change year-on-year -2.22% -11.24% -27.57%
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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,215 5,940 6,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.03% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,475 3,981 4,887
10th Percentile £359 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 94 99
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.22 £14.85
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.71
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £70.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -45.45%

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 August 2026.

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 August 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 -118 149 £500 -33.33% 55
London -108 101 £527 -29.80% 44
Work from Home -95 62 £450 -40.00% 19
UK excluding London -69 50 £440 -2.22% 19
North of England -57 19 £425 -34.62% 4
South West -31 10 £450 -30.77% 2
Scotland -18 8 £417 -11.28% 5
North East -32 8 £371 -10.00% 1
Midlands -41 8 £469 +4.22% 4
Yorkshire -38 7 £440 -37.14% 2
West Midlands -34 6 £469 +4.22% 1
South East -68 5 £525 +22.09% 3
North West -58 4 £565 -13.15% 1
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 3
East of England -23 1 £475 +5.56% 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 32 (18.18%) Apache
1 32 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 30 (17.05%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (14.20%) Confluence
4 13 (7.39%) SAS
5 10 (5.68%) Jupyter
6 4 (2.27%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 168 (95.45%) AWS
2 141 (80.11%) Amazon S3
3 119 (67.61%) Serverless
4 114 (64.77%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (33.52%) Amazon EMR
6 51 (28.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (27.84%) Power Platform
8 38 (21.59%) AWS Step Functions
9 33 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (17.61%) dbt
11 28 (15.91%) Azure
12 27 (15.34%) GitHub
13 19 (10.80%) Amazon Kinesis
14 18 (10.23%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (7.39%) Amazon Bedrock
17 13 (7.39%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (7.39%) Amazon EventBridge
17 13 (7.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Firewall
1 2 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (43.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 48 (27.27%) Power BI
3 47 (26.70%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (25.00%) Data Lake
5 37 (21.02%) DynamoDB
6 25 (14.20%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (14.20%) Apache Iceberg
7 14 (7.95%) Big Data
7 14 (7.95%) Tableau
8 13 (7.39%) Metadata
9 8 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
9 8 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (3.98%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.98%) Data Vault
10 7 (3.98%) Parquet
11 6 (3.41%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (3.41%) OLTP
11 6 (3.41%) Pentaho
11 6 (3.41%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 53 (30.11%) GitLab
2 47 (26.70%) Git
3 29 (16.48%) JIRA
4 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.41%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.27%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.70%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.70%) JUnit
7 3 (1.70%) Mockito
7 3 (1.70%) Postman
7 3 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 39 (22.16%) Public Sector
2 33 (18.75%) Finance
2 33 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.23%) Banking
5 7 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.41%) Back Office
7 5 (2.84%) Military
8 3 (1.70%) Front Office
8 3 (1.70%) Publishing
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.14%) Law
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
9 2 (1.14%) Police
9 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (46.59%) Data Engineer
2 42 (23.86%) AWS Engineer
2 42 (23.86%) Senior
3 32 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 28 (15.91%) AWS Data Engineer
5 23 (13.07%) Architect
6 16 (9.09%) Developer
7 13 (7.39%) Data Architect
7 13 (7.39%) Lead
8 12 (6.82%) AWS Architect
9 10 (5.68%) Analyst
10 9 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Informatica Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) AWS Data Architect
12 7 (3.98%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) Data Analyst
13 6 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.41%) Test Engineer
14 5 (2.84%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (51.70%) Terraform
2 46 (26.14%) PySpark
3 17 (9.66%) Kafka
4 14 (7.95%) React
5 5 (2.84%) YAML
6 4 (2.27%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.27%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.70%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.70%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.70%) Next.js
7 3 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.70%) SOAP
7 3 (1.70%) Spring
7 3 (1.70%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.70%) WireMock
8 2 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.14%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.14%) Node.js
8 2 (1.14%) Pandas
8 2 (1.14%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.30%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.41%) NHS
2 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.84%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.27%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.70%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.14%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.14%) PACS
6 2 (1.14%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.14%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.41%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Windows
3 1 (0.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 85 (48.30%) Data Pipeline
3 78 (44.32%) Analytics
3 78 (44.32%) Data Engineering
4 74 (42.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 72 (40.91%) Business Intelligence
6 66 (37.50%) Data Modelling
7 61 (34.66%) ETL
8 54 (30.68%) Agile
9 50 (28.41%) DevOps
10 45 (25.57%) AI
11 36 (20.45%) Machine Learning
12 35 (19.89%) Test Automation
13 34 (19.32%) Data Governance
14 30 (17.05%) Data Architecture
14 30 (17.05%) Migration
15 25 (14.20%) Dimensional Modelling
15 25 (14.20%) Observability
16 24 (13.64%) Event-Driven
17 22 (12.50%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 131 (74.43%) Python
2 112 (63.64%) SQL
3 17 (9.66%) TypeScript
4 12 (6.82%) Bash
5 10 (5.68%) Java
6 8 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.98%) C#
8 6 (3.41%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.27%) Scala
11 3 (1.70%) R
12 2 (1.14%) COBOL
13 1 (0.57%) Bicep
13 1 (0.57%) PHP
13 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.57%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (39.77%) Security Cleared
2 63 (35.80%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.66%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.70%) Degree
7 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) QA
3 6 (3.41%) GDPR
4 3 (1.70%) SLA
5 2 (1.14%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 27 (15.34%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (11.93%) Grafana
2 19 (10.80%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.41%) Ansible
5 4 (2.27%) Puppet
5 4 (2.27%) Salt
6 2 (1.14%) Control-M
7 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.07%) Informatica
2 16 (9.09%) Databricks
3 14 (7.95%) Splunk
4 13 (7.39%) Oracle
5 7 (3.98%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.98%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.41%) Denodo
6 6 (3.41%) SnapLogic
7 4 (2.27%) Tenable
8 3 (1.70%) Adobe
8 3 (1.70%) Google
9 2 (1.14%) Confluent
9 2 (1.14%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.57%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.57%) Foundry
10 1 (0.57%) IBM
10 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.57%) Palantir