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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 351 353
Rank change year-on-year -119 +2 +253
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 166 177 234
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.61% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.26% 3.23% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 159 205
10th Percentile £313 £475 £488
25th Percentile £425 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £594 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £525 £507
% change year-on-year -18.10% +3.55% -15.85%

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 7,350 5,479 7,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.07% 18.93% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 3,752 5,235
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 101 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.62 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% -9.60% -40.26%

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 2 June 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 14 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 2 June 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 -147 137 £483 -35.67% 41
London -105 109 £513 -31.67% 21
Work from Home -89 60 £464 -40.13% 23
UK excluding London -74 38 £430 -18.10% 25
Scotland +1 11 £313 -40.38%
North of England -69 11 £425 +3.03% 9
Midlands - 7 £469 - 2
Yorkshire - 6 £425 - 4
West Midlands - 6 £469 - 1
North East -23 5 £413 - 2
South East - 5 £525 - 6
South West -31 3 £450 -30.77% 6
East of England - 1 £475 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 - 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 33 (19.88%) Apache Spark
2 31 (18.67%) Apache
3 23 (13.86%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (10.84%) SAS
5 14 (8.43%) Confluence
6 5 (3.01%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 164 (98.80%) AWS
2 128 (77.11%) Amazon S3
3 88 (53.01%) Serverless
4 84 (50.60%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (25.30%) Power Platform
6 39 (23.49%) Amazon EMR
7 38 (22.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 38 (22.89%) AWS Step Functions
8 30 (18.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (16.27%) Amazon SQS
9 27 (16.27%) GitHub
10 26 (15.66%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (15.06%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (15.06%) Amazon Kinesis
12 20 (12.05%) Azure
13 17 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (9.04%) dbt
15 14 (8.43%) Collibra
15 14 (8.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) Firewall
1 4 (2.41%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.81%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) 4G
3 1 (0.60%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 40 (24.10%) Power BI
3 37 (22.29%) DynamoDB
4 35 (21.08%) Data Lake
5 22 (13.25%) Apache Iceberg
6 20 (12.05%) OLTP
7 18 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (10.84%) Mixpanel
8 17 (10.24%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (10.24%) Tableau
9 15 (9.04%) Metadata
10 14 (8.43%) BigQuery
11 13 (7.83%) Amazon QuickSight
11 13 (7.83%) OLAP
12 12 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (5.42%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (5.42%) Big Data
13 9 (5.42%) SQL Server
13 9 (5.42%) Star Schema
14 7 (4.22%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 38 (22.89%) GitLab
2 26 (15.66%) Git
3 20 (12.05%) JIRA
4 10 (6.02%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.61%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.01%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.41%) JUnit
7 4 (2.41%) Mockito
7 4 (2.41%) Postman
8 3 (1.81%) Snyk
8 3 (1.81%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.60%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.60%) ERwin
9 1 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (19.28%) Finance
2 22 (13.25%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.84%) Banking
5 7 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.81%) Military
6 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.20%) Billing
7 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Law
7 2 (1.20%) Legal
7 2 (1.20%) Police
8 1 (0.60%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.60%) French Language
8 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (37.95%) Data Engineer
2 38 (22.89%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (12.65%) Senior
4 20 (12.05%) Architect
4 20 (12.05%) AWS Data Engineer
4 20 (12.05%) Lead
5 19 (11.45%) Developer
6 16 (9.64%) Principal Engineer
7 15 (9.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (9.04%) Data Architect
8 14 (8.43%) Principal Data Engineer
9 13 (7.83%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (6.02%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 9 (5.42%) Analyst
12 9 (5.42%) AWS Architect
12 9 (5.42%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) AWS Data Architect
13 8 (4.82%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (4.22%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.90%) PySpark
2 36 (21.69%) Kafka
3 14 (8.43%) Great Expectations
3 14 (8.43%) React
4 9 (5.42%) Apache Avro
4 9 (5.42%) Protocol Buffers
5 5 (3.01%) OAuth
5 5 (3.01%) OAuth2
5 5 (3.01%) YAML
6 4 (2.41%) Gherkin
6 4 (2.41%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.41%) SOAP
6 4 (2.41%) Spring
6 4 (2.41%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.41%) WireMock
7 3 (1.81%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.81%) JWT
7 3 (1.81%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.81%) Next.js
7 3 (1.81%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 55 (33.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.61%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.61%) PACS
2 6 (3.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (3.01%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.41%) NHS
4 4 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.41%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.81%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.20%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.81%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) zOS
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (57.23%) CI/CD
2 80 (48.19%) Analytics
3 74 (44.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (37.95%) Data Modelling
4 63 (37.95%) DevOps
5 61 (36.75%) Data Engineering
6 60 (36.14%) ETL
7 55 (33.13%) Data Pipeline
8 48 (28.92%) Business Intelligence
9 46 (27.71%) Agile
10 43 (25.90%) Observability
11 35 (21.08%) Data Governance
12 32 (19.28%) AI
13 31 (18.67%) Migration
14 30 (18.07%) Data Architecture
15 26 (15.66%) LLM
16 25 (15.06%) Machine Learning
17 24 (14.46%) Test Automation
18 22 (13.25%) Dimensional Modelling
19 20 (12.05%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 122 (73.49%) Python
2 84 (50.60%) SQL
3 21 (12.65%) C#
4 17 (10.24%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.43%) Bash
6 12 (7.23%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.63%) Java
8 6 (3.61%) SAS Macro
8 6 (3.61%) Scala
9 4 (2.41%) R
10 2 (1.20%) PHP
10 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (37.95%) Security Cleared
2 55 (33.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.22%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (27.71%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.04%) GDPR
3 6 (3.61%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.41%) QA
5 3 (1.81%) NIST
5 3 (1.81%) SLA
6 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 26 (15.66%) Docker
2 5 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 84 (50.60%) Terraform
2 26 (15.66%) Grafana
3 22 (13.25%) Kubernetes
4 15 (9.04%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.22%) Ansible
6 5 (3.01%) Puppet
6 5 (3.01%) Salt
7 3 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.86%) Databricks
2 14 (8.43%) Google
3 13 (7.83%) Splunk
4 9 (5.42%) Confluent
5 8 (4.82%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.82%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.82%) Oracle
6 6 (3.61%) Denodo
6 6 (3.61%) Informatica
6 6 (3.61%) Tenable
7 4 (2.41%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.81%) Adobe
8 3 (1.81%) Qualys
9 2 (1.20%) IBM
9 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.60%) GoldenSource