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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 356 491
Rank change year-on-year -115 +135 +145
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 135 180 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.59% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.04% 3.15% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 158 86
10th Percentile £365 £465 £438
25th Percentile £414 £520 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £675 £667
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% +1.24% +2.58%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £788
90th Percentile £650 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £409 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -22.14% -4.55% -21.43%

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 6,613 5,720 7,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.22% 18.61% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,556 3,833 5,164
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £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 124 93 171
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £16.00
25th Percentile £28.93 £25.09 £21.31
Median hourly rate £54.75 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.66% -10.33% -24.01%
75th Percentile £75.63 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.78 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £40.13
% change year-on-year +83.33% -25.23% -28.26%

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 22 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 22 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 -125 102 £525 -22.22% 31
London -79 92 £525 -22.22% 15
Work from Home -88 43 £603 -19.67% 16
UK excluding London -80 28 £409 -22.14% 20
Scotland +7 18 £401 -23.62%
Midlands -47 5 £475 -13.64% 1
West Midlands -58 4 £444 -19.32% 1
North of England - 3 £525 - 10
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 6
South East -28 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £550 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -

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 (24.44%) Apache
2 28 (20.74%) Apache Spark
3 21 (15.56%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.44%) SAS
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 134 (99.26%) AWS
2 95 (70.37%) Amazon S3
3 63 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
3 63 (46.67%) Serverless
4 52 (38.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 37 (27.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 23 (17.04%) Power Platform
7 22 (16.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (16.30%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (16.30%) Amazon Kinesis
8 20 (14.81%) Amazon EMR
9 19 (14.07%) GCP
10 18 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (13.33%) dbt
11 17 (12.59%) Azure
11 17 (12.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (11.11%) Collibra
13 13 (9.63%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (9.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.74%) 4G
2 1 (0.74%) 5G
2 1 (0.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (31.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 32 (23.70%) Data Lake
3 22 (16.30%) OLTP
3 22 (16.30%) Power BI
4 19 (14.07%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (13.33%) Mixpanel
6 17 (12.59%) Apache Iceberg
6 17 (12.59%) OLAP
7 16 (11.85%) BigQuery
7 16 (11.85%) DynamoDB
8 15 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (8.15%) Tableau
11 10 (7.41%) Metadata
12 9 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (5.93%) Apache Arrow
13 8 (5.93%) Dremio
14 7 (5.19%) Amazon QuickSight
14 7 (5.19%) Delta Lake
15 6 (4.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (16.30%) GitLab
2 16 (11.85%) Git
3 7 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.44%) MLflow
5 5 (3.70%) JIRA
6 3 (2.22%) Snyk
7 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) JMeter
7 1 (0.74%) JUnit
7 1 (0.74%) Locust
7 1 (0.74%) Maven
7 1 (0.74%) Mockito
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) RStudio
General
1 29 (21.48%) Finance
2 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.89%) Banking
5 9 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.93%) Front Office
7 5 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Billing
9 1 (0.74%) iGaming
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (32.59%) Data Engineer
2 36 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (17.78%) Architect
4 21 (15.56%) Senior
5 19 (14.07%) Software Engineer
6 17 (12.59%) Data Architect
7 16 (11.85%) Principal Engineer
8 15 (11.11%) Lead
8 15 (11.11%) Principal Data Engineer
9 14 (10.37%) Python Engineer
10 13 (9.63%) AWS Data Engineer
11 12 (8.89%) Analyst
12 11 (8.15%) AWS Architect
12 11 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (8.15%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 11 (8.15%) Developer
12 11 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (8.15%) Principal Software Engineer
13 8 (5.93%) AWS Data Architect
13 8 (5.93%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (24.44%) Kafka
2 32 (23.70%) PySpark
3 16 (11.85%) Great Expectations
4 12 (8.89%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (7.41%) Node.js
6 8 (5.93%) NumPy
6 8 (5.93%) Pandas
6 8 (5.93%) SciPy
7 7 (5.19%) Apache Avro
8 5 (3.70%) gRPC
8 5 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
8 5 (3.70%) OAuth
8 5 (3.70%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.96%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.96%) AWS CDK
9 4 (2.96%) Plotly
9 4 (2.96%) React
10 3 (2.22%) JWT
10 3 (2.22%) Vue
11 2 (1.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 41 (30.37%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.93%) Equities
2 8 (5.93%) Fixed Income
2 8 (5.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.70%) Derivative
3 5 (3.70%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.70%) Pricing Data
4 4 (2.96%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.96%) PACS
4 4 (2.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.22%) IVR
5 3 (2.22%) NHS
5 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.22%) SCADA
6 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.48%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Linux
1 2 (1.48%) Windows
1 2 (1.48%) zOS
2 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 63 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (41.48%) Analytics
4 54 (40.00%) ETL
5 53 (39.26%) DevOps
6 51 (37.78%) Data Engineering
6 51 (37.78%) Data Modelling
7 38 (28.15%) Data Pipeline
8 34 (25.19%) Migration
9 32 (23.70%) Data Governance
10 29 (21.48%) Observability
11 28 (20.74%) Agile
12 27 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (19.26%) AI
14 25 (18.52%) Data Architecture
15 21 (15.56%) Machine Learning
15 21 (15.56%) Software Engineering
16 20 (14.81%) LLM
17 18 (13.33%) Validation
18 17 (12.59%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 96 (71.11%) Python
2 64 (47.41%) SQL
3 18 (13.33%) C#
4 13 (9.63%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.89%) Java
6 10 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.70%) Scala
8 4 (2.96%) Bash
8 4 (2.96%) SAS Macro
9 2 (1.48%) R
10 1 (0.74%) COBOL
10 1 (0.74%) Go
10 1 (0.74%) PHP
10 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (31.85%) Security Cleared
2 38 (28.15%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.59%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.70%) Data Quality
2 26 (19.26%) GDPR
3 6 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.44%) NIST
4 4 (2.96%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.96%) ISO 20022
5 3 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.22%) PMO
6 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.48%) QA
7 1 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 68 (50.37%) Terraform
2 11 (8.15%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.19%) Grafana
4 5 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.48%) Ansible
7 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.74%) Puppet
7 1 (0.74%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (20.74%) Databricks
2 15 (11.11%) Google
3 7 (5.19%) Confluent
3 7 (5.19%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.44%) Oracle
5 3 (2.22%) Avaya
5 3 (2.22%) Cisco
5 3 (2.22%) Genesys
5 3 (2.22%) Pega
5 3 (2.22%) Qualys
5 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.22%) Tenable
6 2 (1.48%) IBM
7 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.74%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.74%) OpenAI