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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 388 270
Rank change year-on-year -124 -118 +321
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 172 162 340
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.50% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.09% 2.77% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 144 304
10th Percentile £406 £456 £500
25th Percentile £431 £550 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -6.25% +32.23%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £888
90th Percentile £683 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £507
% change year-on-year -2.22% -11.24% -27.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 8,232 5,846 6,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 17.97% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 3,904 4,769
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.75%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 94 90
10th Percentile £15.94 £21.73 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.05 £29.50 £19.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £34.74 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.82% +15.80% -42.86%

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 5 September 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 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 5 September 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 -131 146 £500 -33.33% 65
London -115 97 £525 -30.00% 48
Work from Home -96 62 £450 -40.00% 25
UK excluding London -65 51 £440 -2.22% 26
North of England -54 19 £425 -34.62% 6
South West -28 10 £450 -30.77% 6
Midlands -47 9 £469 +4.22% 3
Scotland -29 8 £417 -11.28% 6
North East -33 8 £371 -10.00%
Yorkshire -39 7 £440 -37.14% 2
West Midlands -42 7 £469 +4.22% 1
South East -71 5 £525 +22.09% 3
North West -57 4 £565 -13.15% 4
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 2
East of England -22 1 £475 +5.56% 2

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 31 (18.02%) Apache
1 31 (18.02%) Apache Spark
2 30 (17.44%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (14.53%) Confluence
4 13 (7.56%) SAS
5 10 (5.81%) Jupyter
6 4 (2.33%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 164 (95.35%) AWS
2 139 (80.81%) Amazon S3
3 117 (68.02%) Serverless
4 112 (65.12%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (33.72%) Amazon EMR
6 50 (29.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 47 (27.33%) Power Platform
8 37 (21.51%) AWS Step Functions
9 32 (18.60%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (17.44%) dbt
11 27 (15.70%) Azure
12 26 (15.12%) GitHub
13 18 (10.47%) Amazon Kinesis
14 17 (9.88%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (7.56%) Amazon Bedrock
15 13 (7.56%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Firewall
1 2 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (43.02%) Amazon Redshift
2 46 (26.74%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (26.74%) Power BI
3 40 (23.26%) Data Lake
4 36 (20.93%) DynamoDB
5 24 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (13.95%) Apache Iceberg
6 14 (8.14%) Big Data
6 14 (8.14%) Tableau
7 12 (6.98%) Metadata
8 8 (4.65%) Amazon QuickSight
8 8 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.07%) Data Vault
10 6 (3.49%) BigQuery
10 6 (3.49%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (3.49%) MySQL
10 6 (3.49%) Parquet
10 6 (3.49%) Pentaho
10 6 (3.49%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 53 (30.81%) GitLab
2 47 (27.33%) Git
3 29 (16.86%) JIRA
4 6 (3.49%) Cypress.io
4 6 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.74%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.74%) JUnit
6 3 (1.74%) Mockito
6 3 (1.74%) Postman
6 3 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 39 (22.67%) Public Sector
2 31 (18.02%) Finance
2 31 (18.02%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.47%) Banking
5 6 (3.49%) Back Office
5 6 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.49%) Military
6 3 (1.74%) Front Office
6 3 (1.74%) Publishing
7 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.16%) Law
7 2 (1.16%) Legal
7 2 (1.16%) Police
7 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.58%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.58%) French Language
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Marketing
8 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 81 (47.09%) Data Engineer
2 42 (24.42%) Senior
3 40 (23.26%) AWS Engineer
4 32 (18.60%) Senior Data Engineer
5 28 (16.28%) AWS Data Engineer
6 21 (12.21%) Architect
7 16 (9.30%) Developer
8 12 (6.98%) Lead
9 11 (6.40%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.81%) Analyst
10 10 (5.81%) AWS Architect
11 9 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.23%) Informatica Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.49%) AWS Data Architect
13 6 (3.49%) Data Analyst
13 6 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.49%) Test Engineer
14 5 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
15 4 (2.33%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (51.16%) Terraform
2 46 (26.74%) PySpark
3 15 (8.72%) Kafka
4 14 (8.14%) React
5 5 (2.91%) YAML
6 4 (2.33%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.74%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.74%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.74%) Great Expectations
7 3 (1.74%) Next.js
7 3 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.74%) SOAP
7 3 (1.74%) Spring
7 3 (1.74%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.74%) WireMock
8 2 (1.16%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.16%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.16%) Pandas
8 2 (1.16%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (1.16%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.49%) NHS
2 6 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.91%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.33%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.74%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.16%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.16%) PACS
6 2 (1.16%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.16%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.49%) Linux
2 5 (2.91%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (54.65%) CI/CD
2 82 (47.67%) Data Pipeline
3 74 (43.02%) Data Engineering
4 73 (42.44%) Analytics
5 71 (41.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 68 (39.53%) Business Intelligence
7 63 (36.63%) Data Modelling
8 58 (33.72%) ETL
9 53 (30.81%) Agile
10 49 (28.49%) DevOps
11 43 (25.00%) AI
12 35 (20.35%) Machine Learning
12 35 (20.35%) Test Automation
13 31 (18.02%) Data Governance
14 30 (17.44%) Migration
15 27 (15.70%) Data Architecture
16 24 (13.95%) Dimensional Modelling
17 23 (13.37%) Event-Driven
17 23 (13.37%) Observability
18 22 (12.79%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 129 (75.00%) Python
2 109 (63.37%) SQL
3 17 (9.88%) TypeScript
4 11 (6.40%) Bash
4 11 (6.40%) Java
5 8 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.49%) C#
6 6 (3.49%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.91%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.33%) Scala
9 3 (1.74%) R
10 2 (1.16%) COBOL
11 1 (0.58%) Bicep
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
11 1 (0.58%) SAS Macro
11 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (40.70%) Security Cleared
2 64 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.72%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (6.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.74%) Degree
7 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (36.05%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.81%) QA
3 4 (2.33%) GDPR
4 3 (1.74%) SLA
5 2 (1.16%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (15.70%) Docker
2 4 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (11.63%) Grafana
2 19 (11.05%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.81%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.49%) Ansible
5 4 (2.33%) Puppet
5 4 (2.33%) Salt
6 2 (1.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.37%) Informatica
2 14 (8.14%) Databricks
2 14 (8.14%) Splunk
3 13 (7.56%) Oracle
4 7 (4.07%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.07%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.49%) Denodo
5 6 (3.49%) SnapLogic
6 4 (2.33%) Tenable
7 3 (1.74%) Adobe
8 2 (1.16%) Confluent
8 2 (1.16%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.16%) Google
9 1 (0.58%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.58%) Foundry
9 1 (0.58%) IBM
9 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.58%) Palantir