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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 323 521
Rank change year-on-year -132 +198 +127
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 148 253 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.69% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.33% 3.96% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 217 79
10th Percentile £413 £498 £479
25th Percentile £469 £575 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £605
% change year-on-year -14.29% -13.22% -11.03%

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 6,347 6,396 7,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.73% 17.53% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,333 4,238 5,367
10th Percentile £333 £338 £350
25th Percentile £411 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 85 149
10th Percentile £21.02 £17.70 £16.93
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -36.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.18 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.25 £64.89 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.10 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +78.55% -40.45% +13.38%

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 20 November 2025.

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 15 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 20 November 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 -123 123 £650 -18.75% 38
London -102 102 £750 -6.25% 25
Work from Home -91 72 £750 -6.25% 31
UK excluding London -29 32 £450 -14.29% 30
Scotland +1 11 £404 -19.30% 13
South East +4 7 £430 - 8
North of England -45 7 £600 +26.32% 1
Midlands -23 5 £431 - 3
West Midlands -30 5 £431 - 3
North West -23 3 £650 +36.84%
Yorkshire -36 3 £600 - 1
North East - 2 £550 -
South West -11 1 £650 - 3
East of England - 1 £450 - 2
Northern Ireland - 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 63 (42.57%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (31.76%) Apache
3 13 (8.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 146 (98.65%) AWS
2 75 (50.68%) Amazon S3
3 61 (41.22%) dbt
4 52 (35.14%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (35.14%) Serverless
5 40 (27.03%) Snowflake
6 33 (22.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (16.22%) GCP
8 20 (13.51%) GitHub
9 18 (12.16%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (10.14%) Amazon EMR
11 15 (10.14%) Amazon SageMaker
12 14 (9.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (7.43%) Azure
14 10 (6.76%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (6.76%) Power Platform
15 8 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (39.19%) Apache Iceberg
2 53 (35.81%) Apache Arrow
2 53 (35.81%) Dremio
3 41 (27.70%) Data Lake
4 40 (27.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (22.97%) Apache Ignite
6 31 (20.95%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (14.86%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (12.16%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (6.76%) DynamoDB
9 10 (6.76%) Power BI
10 9 (6.08%) Big Data
10 9 (6.08%) Metadata
11 7 (4.73%) Tableau
12 6 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (4.05%) Delta Lake
12 6 (4.05%) OLAP
12 6 (4.05%) OLTP
13 4 (2.70%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (12.84%) GitLab
2 8 (5.41%) Git
3 7 (4.73%) JIRA
4 5 (3.38%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.35%) Maven
5 2 (1.35%) MLflow
6 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.68%) JMeter
6 1 (0.68%) Locust
6 1 (0.68%) RStudio
6 1 (0.68%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (44.59%) Finance
2 53 (35.81%) Front Office
3 36 (24.32%) Banking
4 35 (23.65%) Investment Banking
5 30 (20.27%) Social Skills
6 18 (12.16%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.73%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) iGaming
10 1 (0.68%) Military
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (54.05%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (37.84%) Software Engineer
3 54 (36.49%) AWS Software Engineer
4 51 (34.46%) Python Engineer
5 49 (33.11%) Python Software Engineer
6 43 (29.05%) Senior
7 38 (25.68%) Java Engineer
7 38 (25.68%) Java Software Engineer
8 33 (22.30%) Senior Java Engineer
8 33 (22.30%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 33 (22.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (17.57%) Developer
10 22 (14.86%) Architect
10 22 (14.86%) Data Engineer
11 20 (13.51%) AWS Developer
12 19 (12.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 16 (10.81%) Python Developer
14 13 (8.78%) Data Architect
15 11 (7.43%) AWS Architect
16 9 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (39.86%) Pandas
2 58 (39.19%) NumPy
3 53 (35.81%) SciPy
4 34 (22.97%) gRPC
4 34 (22.97%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (16.89%) Node.js
6 19 (12.84%) AngularJS
6 19 (12.84%) React
6 19 (12.84%) Vue
7 13 (8.78%) Kafka
8 12 (8.11%) PySpark
9 7 (4.73%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.38%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.38%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.70%) AWS CDK
11 4 (2.70%) RESTful
12 3 (2.03%) Great Expectations
12 3 (2.03%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (2.03%) Plotly
12 3 (2.03%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 53 (35.81%) Equities
1 53 (35.81%) Fixed Income
1 53 (35.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 35 (23.65%) Hedge funds
3 34 (22.97%) Derivative
3 34 (22.97%) Pricing Data
4 16 (10.81%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.03%) IVR
6 3 (2.03%) NHS
6 3 (2.03%) SCADA
7 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.35%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (47.97%) Agile
2 59 (39.86%) Asset Management
3 57 (38.51%) Software Engineering
4 53 (35.81%) Investment Management
5 44 (29.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (24.32%) DevOps
7 35 (23.65%) CI/CD
8 30 (20.27%) ETL
8 30 (20.27%) Migration
9 28 (18.92%) Data Modelling
10 24 (16.22%) Analytics
11 23 (15.54%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (14.86%) Data Engineering
13 20 (13.51%) Fintech
13 20 (13.51%) Mentoring
14 19 (12.84%) Order Management
14 19 (12.84%) Performance Attribution
14 19 (12.84%) Risk Management
15 16 (10.81%) Containerisation
15 16 (10.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 101 (68.24%) Python
2 57 (38.51%) JavaScript
3 54 (36.49%) TypeScript
4 42 (28.38%) Java
5 39 (26.35%) SQL
6 3 (2.03%) Scala
7 2 (1.35%) C#
7 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.68%) Perl
8 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 32 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.22%) AWS Certification
4 18 (12.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.76%) Degree
6 4 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.86%) GDPR
2 10 (6.76%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.73%) HIPAA
4 6 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.03%) NIST
5 3 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.03%) PMO
6 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (35.81%) Terraform
2 12 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.41%) Databricks
1 8 (5.41%) IBM
2 7 (4.73%) Oracle
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.70%) Sage
4 3 (2.03%) Avaya
4 3 (2.03%) Cisco
4 3 (2.03%) Genesys
4 3 (2.03%) Google
4 3 (2.03%) Pega
4 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.68%) Vertica