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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 362 491
Rank change year-on-year -95 +129 +135
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 130 172 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.56% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.01% 3.04% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 151 82
10th Percentile £399 £465 £418
25th Percentile £434 £518 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £667
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +1.24% +2.58%
75th Percentile £625 £838 £788
90th Percentile £825 £888 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -21.43% -4.55% -15.38%

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 6,460 5,655 7,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.41% 18.42% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,439 3,732 5,226
10th Percentile £336 £355 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 87 178
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.97
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.17 £21.16
Median hourly rate £53.25 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.31% -9.41% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.86 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.50 £76.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £30.21 £40.25
% change year-on-year +81.07% -24.94% -29.21%

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 10 February 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 12 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 10 February 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 -124 98 £525 -22.22% 32
London -73 90 £531 -21.41% 11
Work from Home -90 39 £640 -14.67% 16
UK excluding London -67 24 £413 -21.43% 23
Scotland +14 16 £402 -23.43%
West Midlands -46 3 £413 -25.00%
Midlands -54 3 £413 -25.00%
South East -22 2 £525 - 3
North of England -61 2 £525 -22.22% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -
North East - 1 £550 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 10

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 35 (26.92%) Apache
2 25 (19.23%) Apache Spark
3 24 (18.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.77%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 129 (99.23%) AWS
2 88 (67.69%) Amazon S3
3 63 (48.46%) AWS Lambda
3 63 (48.46%) Serverless
4 49 (37.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (26.92%) AWS Step Functions
6 22 (16.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (16.92%) Amazon Kinesis
6 22 (16.92%) Power Platform
7 21 (16.15%) dbt
8 20 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (14.62%) GCP
9 19 (14.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (13.08%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (11.54%) Azure
12 14 (10.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (10.77%) Collibra
13 13 (10.00%) GitHub
13 13 (10.00%) Snowflake
14 12 (9.23%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.08%) Network Security
2 1 (0.77%) Firewall
2 1 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (35.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 34 (26.15%) Data Lake
3 22 (16.92%) OLTP
3 22 (16.92%) Power BI
4 21 (16.15%) Apache Iceberg
5 17 (13.08%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (13.08%) Mixpanel
5 17 (13.08%) OLAP
6 16 (12.31%) DynamoDB
7 15 (11.54%) BigQuery
8 14 (10.77%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (9.23%) Apache Arrow
9 12 (9.23%) Dremio
10 11 (8.46%) Tableau
11 9 (6.92%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (6.15%) Apache Ignite
12 8 (6.15%) Delta Lake
13 7 (5.38%) Amazon QuickSight
13 7 (5.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (17.69%) GitLab
2 11 (8.46%) Git
3 6 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.62%) MLflow
4 5 (3.85%) JIRA
5 2 (1.54%) Snyk
6 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.77%) JMeter
6 1 (0.77%) JUnit
6 1 (0.77%) Locust
6 1 (0.77%) Maven
6 1 (0.77%) Mockito
6 1 (0.77%) Postman
6 1 (0.77%) RStudio
General
1 29 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.54%) Finance
3 20 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.23%) Front Office
5 10 (7.69%) Banking
6 8 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.15%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.77%) iGaming
9 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.77%) Marketing
9 1 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (31.54%) Data Engineer
2 36 (27.69%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (20.00%) Architect
4 23 (17.69%) Senior
4 23 (17.69%) Software Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) Data Architect
6 18 (13.85%) Python Engineer
7 15 (11.54%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (10.77%) Principal Data Engineer
9 13 (10.00%) AWS Architect
9 13 (10.00%) Lead
10 12 (9.23%) Analyst
10 12 (9.23%) AWS Software Engineer
10 12 (9.23%) Python Software Engineer
11 11 (8.46%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (8.46%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 11 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (8.46%) Principal Software Engineer
12 10 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
13 9 (6.92%) AWS Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (25.38%) Kafka
2 26 (20.00%) PySpark
3 15 (11.54%) Great Expectations
3 15 (11.54%) Protocol Buffers
4 12 (9.23%) NumPy
4 12 (9.23%) Pandas
4 12 (9.23%) SciPy
5 10 (7.69%) Node.js
6 8 (6.15%) gRPC
7 7 (5.38%) Apache Avro
8 5 (3.85%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (3.08%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.08%) AWS CDK
9 4 (3.08%) Plotly
9 4 (3.08%) React
9 4 (3.08%) Vue
10 3 (2.31%) JWT
10 3 (2.31%) OAuth
10 3 (2.31%) OAuth2
11 2 (1.54%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.69%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.23%) Equities
2 12 (9.23%) Fixed Income
2 12 (9.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.15%) Derivative
3 8 (6.15%) Hedge funds
3 8 (6.15%) Pricing Data
4 4 (3.08%) PACS
4 4 (3.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.31%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.31%) IVR
5 3 (2.31%) NHS
5 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.31%) SCADA
6 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.54%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.77%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.77%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Linux
1 2 (1.54%) Windows
1 2 (1.54%) zOS
2 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (50.77%) CI/CD
2 63 (48.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (40.00%) Analytics
4 48 (36.92%) ETL
5 47 (36.15%) DevOps
6 46 (35.38%) Data Modelling
7 44 (33.85%) Data Engineering
8 33 (25.38%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (23.85%) Data Governance
10 29 (22.31%) Migration
11 28 (21.54%) Agile
12 27 (20.77%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (19.23%) Data Architecture
13 25 (19.23%) Observability
13 25 (19.23%) Software Engineering
14 22 (16.92%) AI
15 19 (14.62%) Machine Learning
16 18 (13.85%) Asset Management
17 17 (13.08%) Data Analytics
17 17 (13.08%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 91 (70.00%) Python
2 58 (44.62%) SQL
3 16 (12.31%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.54%) C#
5 13 (10.00%) Java
5 13 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.08%) Scala
7 3 (2.31%) Bash
8 2 (1.54%) R
9 1 (0.77%) COBOL
9 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (32.31%) Security Cleared
2 38 (29.23%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.08%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.54%) GDPR
2 27 (20.77%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.62%) HIPAA
3 6 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.85%) NIST
5 4 (3.08%) ISO 20022
6 3 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.31%) PMO
7 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.77%) NCSC
8 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (51.54%) Terraform
2 11 (8.46%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.85%) Grafana
4 3 (2.31%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.77%) Ansible
5 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.77%) Puppet
5 1 (0.77%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (20.77%) Databricks
2 14 (10.77%) Google
3 7 (5.38%) Confluent
4 6 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.62%) Oracle
5 3 (2.31%) Avaya
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco
5 3 (2.31%) Genesys
5 3 (2.31%) Pega
5 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.31%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.54%) IBM
6 2 (1.54%) Qualys
6 2 (1.54%) Tenable
7 1 (0.77%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.77%) GoldenSource