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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 327 457
Rank change year-on-year -142 +130 +182
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 140 201 140
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.69% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.01% 3.65% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 174 115
10th Percentile £317 £463 £471
25th Percentile £407 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £675 £706
Median % change year-on-year -26.85% -4.39% +8.62%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £800
90th Percentile £640 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -22.86% -4.55% -13.73%

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 6,977 5,514 7,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.92% 18.93% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,796 3,816 5,146
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 98 172
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.47 £14.36
25th Percentile £29.83 £24.25 £20.70
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +58.03% -21.15% -29.54%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.50 £58.55
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -14.29% -36.36%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -175 111 £525 -22.22% 36
London -106 99 £525 -30.00% 21
Work from Home -108 45 £569 -26.61% 18
UK excluding London -96 27 £405 -22.86% 19
Scotland +8 16 £400 -23.81%
Midlands -61 6 £533 -3.18% 1
West Midlands -56 5 £475 -13.64%
South East -50 2 - - 4
North of England -69 2 £550 - 9
North East -17 1 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
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 35 (25.00%) Apache
2 32 (22.86%) Apache Spark
3 18 (12.86%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (7.14%) SAS
5 5 (3.57%) Confluence
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.71%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 139 (99.29%) AWS
2 101 (72.14%) Amazon S3
3 65 (46.43%) AWS Lambda
3 65 (46.43%) Serverless
4 50 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 43 (30.71%) AWS Step Functions
6 26 (18.57%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (17.86%) Power Platform
8 24 (17.14%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (15.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (15.71%) Amazon EMR
10 20 (14.29%) Azure
11 19 (13.57%) GCP
12 18 (12.86%) Amazon Kinesis
12 18 (12.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (12.86%) Collibra
12 18 (12.86%) GitHub
13 17 (12.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (10.00%) dbt
14 14 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Network Security
2 2 (1.43%) Firewall
2 2 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.71%) 4G
3 1 (0.71%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 38 (27.14%) Data Lake
3 24 (17.14%) Power BI
4 22 (15.71%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (15.71%) Mixpanel
4 22 (15.71%) OLTP
5 21 (15.00%) DynamoDB
6 19 (13.57%) BigQuery
7 17 (12.14%) OLAP
8 13 (9.29%) Apache Iceberg
9 12 (8.57%) Metadata
10 11 (7.86%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (7.14%) Tableau
12 8 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (5.71%) Amazon QuickSight
12 8 (5.71%) Star Schema
13 6 (4.29%) Delta Lake
13 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
14 5 (3.57%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 26 (18.57%) GitLab
2 22 (15.71%) Git
3 13 (9.29%) JIRA
4 9 (6.43%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.29%) MLflow
6 4 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.14%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.14%) JUnit
7 3 (2.14%) Mockito
7 3 (2.14%) Postman
7 3 (2.14%) Snyk
8 2 (1.43%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.71%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.71%) ERwin
9 1 (0.71%) JMeter
9 1 (0.71%) Locust
9 1 (0.71%) Maven
9 1 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.71%) RStudio
9 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (23.57%) Finance
2 24 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.57%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.71%) Banking
5 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.43%) Billing
7 2 (1.43%) Front Office
7 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.71%) French Language
8 1 (0.71%) iGaming
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (32.86%) Data Engineer
2 31 (22.14%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (15.00%) Senior
4 20 (14.29%) Architect
4 20 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
5 18 (12.86%) Lead
5 18 (12.86%) Principal Data Engineer
6 14 (10.00%) Developer
7 13 (9.29%) Analyst
7 13 (9.29%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) AWS Data Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) Data Architect
9 11 (7.86%) Principal Software Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) AWS Architect
11 9 (6.43%) Data Analyst
11 9 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (6.43%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.71%) Kafka
2 34 (24.29%) PySpark
3 19 (13.57%) Great Expectations
4 9 (6.43%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (5.00%) Apache Avro
6 5 (3.57%) Node.js
6 5 (3.57%) OAuth
6 5 (3.57%) OAuth2
6 5 (3.57%) React
7 4 (2.86%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.86%) Gherkin
7 4 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.86%) YAML
8 3 (2.14%) JWT
8 3 (2.14%) Plotly
8 3 (2.14%) SOAP
8 3 (2.14%) Spring
8 3 (2.14%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.14%) WireMock
9 2 (1.43%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (33.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.86%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.86%) NHS
2 4 (2.86%) PACS
2 4 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (2.14%) IVR
3 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.14%) SCADA
4 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.43%) Derivative
4 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.43%) Equities
4 2 (1.43%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.43%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.43%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.43%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Linux
1 2 (1.43%) Unix
1 2 (1.43%) Windows
1 2 (1.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (58.57%) CI/CD
2 66 (47.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (44.29%) Data Engineering
4 61 (43.57%) Analytics
5 57 (40.71%) ETL
6 53 (37.86%) Data Modelling
6 53 (37.86%) DevOps
7 39 (27.86%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (25.71%) Data Governance
9 34 (24.29%) Migration
10 33 (23.57%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (23.57%) Observability
11 32 (22.86%) Agile
11 32 (22.86%) AI
12 31 (22.14%) Data Architecture
13 26 (18.57%) LLM
14 24 (17.14%) Machine Learning
15 21 (15.00%) Dimensional Modelling
15 21 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (13.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 95 (67.86%) Python
2 71 (50.71%) SQL
3 23 (16.43%) C#
4 11 (7.86%) Java
5 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.43%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.00%) Bash
8 5 (3.57%) SAS Macro
9 4 (2.86%) Scala
10 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.43%) R
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) COBOL
11 1 (0.71%) Go
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.57%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.14%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (26.43%) Data Quality
2 26 (18.57%) GDPR
3 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.29%) NIST
4 4 (2.86%) ISO 20022
5 3 (2.14%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.14%) PMO
6 2 (1.43%) QA
7 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.71%) IFRS
7 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (9.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 68 (48.57%) Terraform
2 11 (7.86%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.43%) Grafana
4 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.14%) Ansible
5 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.43%) Puppet
6 2 (1.43%) Salt
7 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (22.86%) Databricks
2 18 (12.86%) Google
3 8 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.00%) Confluent
4 7 (5.00%) Oracle
5 4 (2.86%) Splunk
6 3 (2.14%) Avaya
6 3 (2.14%) Cisco
6 3 (2.14%) Genesys
6 3 (2.14%) Pega
6 3 (2.14%) Qualys
6 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.14%) Tenable
7 2 (1.43%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.43%) IBM
8 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.71%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.71%) OpenAI