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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 356 328
Rank change year-on-year -107 -28 +288
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 188 180 280
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.60% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.43% 3.24% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 161 249
10th Percentile £313 £490 £500
25th Percentile £425 £575 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £565 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £588 £507
% change year-on-year -27.23% +15.88% -22.30%

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 7,724 5,548 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.55% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,144 3,771 5,381
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 98 156
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.49 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.88 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -30.43%
75th Percentile £69.00 £65.63 £54.34
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.09 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £31.85 £33.47
% change year-on-year +18.94% -4.84% -39.15%

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 21 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 21 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 -112 157 £475 -36.67% 29
London -96 117 £500 -33.33% 16
Work from Home -87 76 £450 -41.94% 16
UK excluding London -65 49 £428 -27.23% 18
North of England -62 15 £419 -35.58% 6
Scotland -3 11 £313 -40.38%
South West -26 9 £450 -30.77% 6
North East -31 8 £371 -10.00% 2
Yorkshire -49 7 £433 -38.21% 2
Midlands - 7 £469 - 2
South East - 6 £525 - 4
West Midlands - 6 £469 -
East of England - 1 £475 -
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 34 (18.09%) Apache Spark
2 31 (16.49%) Apache
3 26 (13.83%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (12.23%) Confluence
5 19 (10.11%) SAS
6 8 (4.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 184 (97.87%) AWS
2 153 (81.38%) Amazon S3
3 116 (61.70%) Serverless
4 112 (59.57%) AWS Lambda
5 55 (29.26%) Amazon EMR
6 52 (27.66%) Power Platform
7 48 (25.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 39 (20.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 35 (18.62%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (15.43%) Azure
10 29 (15.43%) GitHub
11 27 (14.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (13.30%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (13.30%) dbt
13 24 (12.77%) Amazon Kinesis
13 24 (12.77%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (6.91%) Amazon ECR
15 13 (6.91%) AWS CodePipeline
15 13 (6.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.13%) Firewall
1 4 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.53%) 4G
3 1 (0.53%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (38.83%) Amazon Redshift
2 50 (26.60%) Power BI
3 40 (21.28%) Data Lake
3 40 (21.28%) DynamoDB
4 37 (19.68%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (11.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 20 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (9.04%) Tableau
8 16 (8.51%) Metadata
8 16 (8.51%) OLTP
9 14 (7.45%) Mixpanel
10 12 (6.38%) Amazon QuickSight
11 11 (5.85%) Big Data
11 11 (5.85%) BigQuery
11 11 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (5.32%) OLAP
13 8 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
13 8 (4.26%) Star Schema
14 6 (3.19%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 51 (27.13%) GitLab
2 42 (22.34%) Git
3 29 (15.43%) JIRA
4 11 (5.85%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.19%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.19%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.66%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.66%) JUnit
6 5 (2.66%) Mockito
6 5 (2.66%) Postman
7 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.06%) Snyk
9 1 (0.53%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.53%) ERwin
9 1 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (19.68%) Public Sector
2 35 (18.62%) Finance
3 31 (16.49%) Social Skills
4 24 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (11.17%) Banking
6 9 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.13%) Military
8 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.06%) Billing
9 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.06%) Law
9 2 (1.06%) Legal
9 2 (1.06%) Police
9 2 (1.06%) Publishing
10 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.53%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 77 (40.96%) Data Engineer
2 45 (23.94%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (15.43%) Senior
4 23 (12.23%) AWS Data Engineer
5 22 (11.70%) Architect
6 21 (11.17%) Senior Data Engineer
7 20 (10.64%) Developer
8 18 (9.57%) Lead
9 14 (7.45%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.91%) Data Architect
11 12 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.38%) Principal Data Engineer
12 10 (5.32%) AWS Architect
13 8 (4.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 8 (4.26%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (3.72%) Analyst
14 7 (3.72%) AWS Data Architect
14 7 (3.72%) Informatica Engineer
14 7 (3.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.72%) PySpark
2 30 (15.96%) Kafka
3 14 (7.45%) React
4 11 (5.85%) Great Expectations
5 7 (3.72%) Apache Avro
5 7 (3.72%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (3.19%) YAML
7 5 (2.66%) Gherkin
7 5 (2.66%) OAuth
7 5 (2.66%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.66%) SOAP
7 5 (2.66%) Spring
7 5 (2.66%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.66%) WireMock
8 4 (2.13%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.60%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.60%) JWT
9 3 (1.60%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.60%) Playwright
9 3 (1.60%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 57 (30.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.19%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.19%) NHS
4 5 (2.66%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (2.66%) PACS
4 5 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.13%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.60%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.60%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.06%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Unix
2 1 (0.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (62.77%) CI/CD
2 89 (47.34%) Analytics
3 82 (43.62%) Data Engineering
3 82 (43.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (38.83%) Data Pipeline
4 73 (38.83%) DevOps
5 70 (37.23%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (35.64%) Data Modelling
7 63 (33.51%) ETL
8 59 (31.38%) Agile
9 49 (26.06%) AI
10 42 (22.34%) Machine Learning
11 39 (20.74%) Data Architecture
11 39 (20.74%) Observability
12 36 (19.15%) Data Governance
13 34 (18.09%) Test Automation
14 32 (17.02%) Dimensional Modelling
15 30 (15.96%) Migration
16 26 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
17 23 (12.23%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 145 (77.13%) Python
2 105 (55.85%) SQL
3 19 (10.11%) C#
4 17 (9.04%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.51%) Bash
6 13 (6.91%) Java
7 12 (6.38%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.19%) SAS Macro
8 6 (3.19%) Scala
9 3 (1.60%) R
10 2 (1.06%) PHP
10 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) COBOL
11 1 (0.53%) Go
11 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 64 (34.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.98%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (34.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.38%) GDPR
3 5 (2.66%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.13%) QA
5 3 (1.60%) SLA
6 2 (1.06%) NIST
7 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.53%) IFRS
7 1 (0.53%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 32 (17.02%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.06%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 105 (55.85%) Terraform
2 26 (13.83%) Grafana
3 23 (12.23%) Kubernetes
4 16 (8.51%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.26%) Ansible
6 6 (3.19%) Puppet
6 6 (3.19%) Salt
7 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.64%) Databricks
2 17 (9.04%) Informatica
3 13 (6.91%) Splunk
4 11 (5.85%) Google
5 9 (4.79%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.26%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.26%) Oracle
7 7 (3.72%) Confluent
8 6 (3.19%) Denodo
9 5 (2.66%) Tenable
10 4 (2.13%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.60%) Adobe
12 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 2 (1.06%) Qualys
13 1 (0.53%) Ab Initio
13 1 (0.53%) GoldenSource
13 1 (0.53%) IBM