Amazon Athena Contracts

Amazon Athena
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon Athena skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon Athena over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 313 608
Rank change year-on-year -44 +295 +93
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 180 293 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.68% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.21% 3.89% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 262 60
10th Percentile £500 £500 £438
25th Percentile £575 £675 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £605
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +32.23% +5.22%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £700
90th Percentile - - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £507 £653
% change year-on-year +15.88% -22.30% +13.48%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,608 7,535 9,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.30% 17.45% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 5,378 6,738
10th Percentile £358 £350 £370
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £760 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 150 171
10th Percentile £19.52 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.82 £32.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -29.08% +40.47%
75th Percentile £64.13 £53.29 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -40.00% +57.14%

Amazon Athena
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon Athena as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon Athena.

Daily rate trend for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Athena over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon Athena.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Top 10 Contract 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 30 June 2025. 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 -31 166 £750 -6.25% 177
London -24 148 £750 -6.25% 121
Work from Home -37 116 £775 -3.13% 78
UK excluding London +27 20 £588 +15.88% 65
Scotland +5 8 £525 - 7
South West +45 6 £650 +36.84% 9
North of England +1 6 £650 +28.21% 19
North East - 3 £413 - 1
North West +11 2 £650 +67.74% 12
Yorkshire -6 1 £700 +38.07% 6

Amazon Athena
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 111 (61.67%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (40.56%) Apache
3 21 (11.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) AWS
2 113 (62.78%) dbt
3 65 (36.11%) AWS Lambda
3 65 (36.11%) Serverless
4 63 (35.00%) Snowflake
5 58 (32.22%) Amazon S3
6 49 (27.22%) GCP
7 27 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (9.44%) GitHub
9 16 (8.89%) OpenShift
10 15 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (6.11%) Power Platform
13 10 (5.56%) Azure
14 9 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (5.00%) Dagster
15 7 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (60.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 103 (57.22%) Dremio
3 99 (55.00%) Apache Arrow
4 53 (29.44%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (28.89%) Apache Ignite
6 44 (24.44%) Data Lake
7 22 (12.22%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (11.67%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (8.89%) DynamoDB
9 16 (8.89%) Tableau
10 11 (6.11%) Power BI
11 8 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (3.89%) MySQL
13 6 (3.33%) NoSQL
13 6 (3.33%) Parquet
14 5 (2.78%) Big Data
14 5 (2.78%) Metadata
14 5 (2.78%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (8.89%) Artifactory
2 11 (6.11%) GitLab
3 4 (2.22%) JIRA
4 3 (1.67%) Git
5 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.11%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.56%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 111 (61.67%) Finance
2 103 (57.22%) Front Office
3 56 (31.11%) Banking
4 50 (27.78%) Investment Banking
5 18 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 14 (7.78%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.22%) Military
8 3 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.11%) Publishing
10 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (67.22%) AWS Engineer
2 84 (46.67%) Software Engineer
3 83 (46.11%) AWS Software Engineer
4 80 (44.44%) Python Engineer
5 62 (34.44%) Developer
6 58 (32.22%) Python Software Engineer
7 57 (31.67%) AWS Developer
8 53 (29.44%) Data Engineer
8 53 (29.44%) Java Engineer
8 53 (29.44%) Java Software Engineer
9 50 (27.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 41 (22.78%) Senior
11 34 (18.89%) Python Developer
12 31 (17.22%) Senior Java Engineer
12 31 (17.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 31 (17.22%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (11.11%) Java Developer
13 20 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
14 17 (9.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 17 (9.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (42.22%) Pandas
2 71 (39.44%) NumPy
2 71 (39.44%) SciPy
3 53 (29.44%) PySpark
4 40 (22.22%) Node.js
5 39 (21.67%) React
6 36 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 36 (20.00%) gRPC
6 36 (20.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 34 (18.89%) Vue
8 22 (12.22%) Kafka
9 16 (8.89%) J2EE
10 8 (4.44%) AWS CDK
11 4 (2.22%) boto
11 4 (2.22%) JSON
12 3 (1.67%) Redux
13 2 (1.11%) .NET
13 2 (1.11%) Plotly
14 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
14 1 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 83 (46.11%) Fixed Income
2 74 (41.11%) Equities
2 74 (41.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 49 (27.22%) Derivative
3 49 (27.22%) Hedge funds
4 28 (15.56%) Pricing Data
5 6 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.11%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (69.44%) Agile
2 107 (59.44%) Software Engineering
3 104 (57.78%) Asset Management
4 66 (36.67%) Investment Management
5 43 (23.89%) CI/CD
6 42 (23.33%) DevOps
7 39 (21.67%) Data Engineering
8 38 (21.11%) Fintech
9 34 (18.89%) Performance Attribution
10 31 (17.22%) Order Management
10 31 (17.22%) Risk Management
11 26 (14.44%) Migration
12 23 (12.78%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (12.78%) ETL
13 22 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (11.67%) Analytics
15 18 (10.00%) Data Modelling
16 17 (9.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 16 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
17 16 (8.89%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 136 (75.56%) Python
2 88 (48.89%) Java
3 70 (38.89%) TypeScript
4 68 (37.78%) JavaScript
5 59 (32.78%) SQL
6 16 (8.89%) Go
7 4 (2.22%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.67%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.67%) Scala
9 2 (1.11%) R
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 25 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.78%) AWS Certification
3 11 (6.11%) Degree
4 7 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.11%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.11%) GDPR
2 2 (1.11%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (15.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (23.89%) Terraform
2 27 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.11%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (3.89%) Databricks
1 7 (3.89%) Microsoft
1 7 (3.89%) Oracle
2 5 (2.78%) IBM
3 4 (2.22%) Google
3 4 (2.22%) Informatica
3 4 (2.22%) MuleSoft
3 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.22%) Teradata
4 3 (1.67%) Splunk
5 2 (1.11%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.11%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.11%) TSYS
6 1 (0.56%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.56%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.56%) Talend
6 1 (0.56%) TOWER Software