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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 343 426
Rank change year-on-year -113 +83 +225
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 173 198 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.68% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.39% 3.54% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 171 138
10th Percentile £356 £475 £475
25th Percentile £413 £550 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £850
90th Percentile £638 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% -5.88%

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 7,251 5,589 7,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.79% 19.08% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,971 3,854 5,175
10th Percentile £350 £352 £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 £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £485
% change year-on-year -2.71% +0.77% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 107 152
10th Percentile £18.00 £21.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.56% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.00 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +59.61% -9.60% -39.70%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -127 142 £500 -33.33% 27
London -82 118 £500 -33.33% 12
Work from Home -103 56 £475 -38.71% 14
UK excluding London -85 37 £425 -19.05% 16
Scotland +8 15 £400 -23.81%
North of England -66 7 £433 - 8
Midlands -62 6 £533 -3.18% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £425 - 1
West Midlands -54 5 £475 -13.64%
South East -50 4 £525 - 1
South West -37 3 £450 -30.77% 2
North East -17 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £475 - 4
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 39 (22.54%) Apache Spark
2 36 (20.81%) Apache
3 20 (11.56%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (6.94%) SAS
5 7 (4.05%) Confluence
6 2 (1.16%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.58%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 172 (99.42%) AWS
2 132 (76.30%) Amazon S3
3 91 (52.60%) Serverless
4 88 (50.87%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (29.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 51 (29.48%) AWS Step Functions
6 37 (21.39%) Power Platform
7 30 (17.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (16.76%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (16.18%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (15.61%) Amazon EMR
11 25 (14.45%) GitHub
12 23 (13.29%) Azure
13 22 (12.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (12.14%) Amazon Kinesis
15 19 (10.98%) GCP
16 18 (10.40%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (10.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (10.40%) Collibra
16 18 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.31%) Firewall
1 4 (2.31%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.73%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) 4G
3 1 (0.58%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.06%) Amazon Redshift
2 36 (20.81%) Data Lake
2 36 (20.81%) Power BI
3 29 (16.76%) DynamoDB
4 24 (13.87%) OLTP
5 22 (12.72%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (12.72%) Mixpanel
5 22 (12.72%) Tableau
6 19 (10.98%) BigQuery
7 17 (9.83%) OLAP
8 14 (8.09%) Apache Iceberg
8 14 (8.09%) Metadata
9 12 (6.94%) Amazon QuickSight
9 12 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (5.78%) Star Schema
11 9 (5.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (4.62%) Big Data
13 7 (4.05%) Data Vault
13 7 (4.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (19.08%) GitLab
2 27 (15.61%) Git
3 14 (8.09%) JIRA
4 9 (5.20%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.47%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.47%) MLflow
6 4 (2.31%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.73%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.73%) JUnit
7 3 (1.73%) Mockito
7 3 (1.73%) Postman
7 3 (1.73%) Snyk
7 3 (1.73%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.58%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.58%) ERwin
8 1 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (21.39%) Finance
2 28 (16.18%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.03%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.67%) Banking
6 9 (5.20%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.73%) Military
7 3 (1.73%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.16%) Billing
8 2 (1.16%) Law
8 2 (1.16%) Police
9 1 (0.58%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.58%) French Language
9 1 (0.58%) iGaming
9 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 58 (33.53%) Data Engineer
2 35 (20.23%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (14.45%) Senior
4 23 (13.29%) Architect
4 23 (13.29%) Lead
5 20 (11.56%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (10.40%) Principal Data Engineer
7 17 (9.83%) Analyst
7 17 (9.83%) Developer
8 15 (8.67%) AWS Data Engineer
8 15 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (8.09%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 13 (7.51%) Data Architect
10 13 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.36%) AWS Architect
11 11 (6.36%) Data Analyst
11 11 (6.36%) Principal Software Engineer
11 11 (6.36%) Software Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (4.05%) AWS Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (24.86%) PySpark
2 38 (21.97%) Kafka
3 18 (10.40%) Great Expectations
4 10 (5.78%) React
5 9 (5.20%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.20%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (2.89%) OAuth
6 5 (2.89%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.31%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.31%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.31%) Node.js
7 4 (2.31%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.31%) YAML
8 3 (1.73%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.73%) JWT
8 3 (1.73%) Plotly
8 3 (1.73%) SOAP
8 3 (1.73%) Spring
8 3 (1.73%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.73%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 51 (29.48%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.05%) NHS
3 6 (3.47%) PACS
3 6 (3.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (2.31%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.31%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.73%) IVR
5 3 (1.73%) SCADA
6 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.16%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.31%) Linux
2 2 (1.16%) Unix
2 2 (1.16%) Windows
2 2 (1.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (54.91%) CI/CD
2 84 (48.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 78 (45.09%) Analytics
4 70 (40.46%) Data Engineering
5 63 (36.42%) DevOps
6 61 (35.26%) Data Modelling
6 61 (35.26%) ETL
7 54 (31.21%) Data Pipeline
8 46 (26.59%) Business Intelligence
9 42 (24.28%) Agile
10 40 (23.12%) Migration
10 40 (23.12%) Observability
11 37 (21.39%) Data Governance
12 36 (20.81%) AI
13 33 (19.08%) Data Architecture
14 30 (17.34%) LLM
15 29 (16.76%) Machine Learning
16 23 (13.29%) Test Automation
17 22 (12.72%) Validation
18 21 (12.14%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 120 (69.36%) Python
2 87 (50.29%) SQL
3 23 (13.29%) C#
4 14 (8.09%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.36%) Bash
6 10 (5.78%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.20%) Java
8 7 (4.05%) Scala
9 6 (3.47%) SAS Macro
10 4 (2.31%) R
11 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.58%) C
12 1 (0.58%) COBOL
12 1 (0.58%) Go
12 1 (0.58%) PHP
12 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (34.10%) Security Cleared
2 51 (29.48%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.67%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (26.01%) Data Quality
2 26 (15.03%) GDPR
3 6 (3.47%) ISO 20022
3 6 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.47%) NIST
4 3 (1.73%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.73%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.73%) PMO
4 3 (1.73%) QA
4 3 (1.73%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.58%) IFRS
5 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (10.40%) Docker
2 4 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 87 (50.29%) Terraform
2 21 (12.14%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.98%) Grafana
4 14 (8.09%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.89%) Ansible
6 4 (2.31%) Puppet
6 4 (2.31%) Salt
7 3 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (19.65%) Databricks
2 18 (10.40%) Google
3 13 (7.51%) Splunk
4 11 (6.36%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.20%) Confluent
6 6 (3.47%) Oracle
6 6 (3.47%) Tenable
7 4 (2.31%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.73%) Adobe
8 3 (1.73%) Avaya
8 3 (1.73%) Cisco
8 3 (1.73%) Genesys
8 3 (1.73%) Pega
8 3 (1.73%) Qualys
8 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.16%) IBM
10 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.58%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.58%) OpenAI