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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 338 431
Rank change year-on-year -116 +93 +205
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 166 196 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.67% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.29% 3.51% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 175 143
10th Percentile £352 £475 £488
25th Percentile £413 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £888
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -17.14% -12.50% +11.11%

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 7,262 5,579 7,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.46% 19.01% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,949 3,851 5,147
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £483
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.45% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 108 144
10th Percentile £16.71 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £58.55
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +53.98% -20.90% -30.43%

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 28 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 13 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 28 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 -137 136 £481 -35.83% 36
London -112 109 £506 -34.68% 16
Work from Home -98 56 £464 -40.13% 18
UK excluding London -76 40 £435 -17.14% 26
Scotland +1 15 £400 -23.81% 4
Midlands -57 10 £469 -14.73% 4
West Midlands -52 9 £469 -14.73% 3
North of England -71 6 £425 - 8
Yorkshire - 6 £425 -
South East - 5 £525 - 3
South West -38 3 £450 -30.77% 4
East of England - 1 £475 - 3
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 36 (21.69%) Apache Spark
2 32 (19.28%) Apache
3 19 (11.45%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (9.64%) SAS
5 11 (6.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.60%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 165 (99.40%) AWS
2 127 (76.51%) Amazon S3
3 87 (52.41%) Serverless
4 84 (50.60%) AWS Lambda
5 47 (28.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 47 (28.31%) AWS Step Functions
6 38 (22.89%) Power Platform
7 34 (20.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (18.07%) Amazon EMR
9 29 (17.47%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (15.66%) Amazon SQS
11 25 (15.06%) Amazon Kinesis
11 25 (15.06%) GitHub
12 22 (13.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (12.65%) Azure
14 18 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (10.24%) GCP
16 16 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (9.64%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) Firewall
1 4 (2.41%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.81%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) 4G
3 1 (0.60%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (31.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 37 (22.29%) Data Lake
2 37 (22.29%) Power BI
3 33 (19.88%) DynamoDB
4 22 (13.25%) OLTP
5 21 (12.65%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (12.05%) Mixpanel
7 18 (10.84%) Apache Iceberg
8 17 (10.24%) BigQuery
8 17 (10.24%) Tableau
9 15 (9.04%) OLAP
10 14 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (8.43%) Metadata
11 11 (6.63%) Amazon QuickSight
11 11 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (5.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (5.42%) Star Schema
13 8 (4.82%) Big Data
14 7 (4.22%) Data Vault
14 7 (4.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (22.29%) GitLab
2 25 (15.06%) Git
3 18 (10.84%) JIRA
4 9 (5.42%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.61%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.61%) MLflow
6 4 (2.41%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.81%) JUnit
7 3 (1.81%) Mockito
7 3 (1.81%) Postman
7 3 (1.81%) Snyk
7 3 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.60%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.60%) ERwin
8 1 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (21.69%) Finance
2 25 (15.06%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.86%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.04%) Banking
6 9 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.81%) Military
7 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.20%) Billing
8 2 (1.20%) Law
8 2 (1.20%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.60%) French Language
9 1 (0.60%) iGaming
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (33.73%) Data Engineer
2 37 (22.29%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (15.06%) Senior
4 23 (13.86%) Architect
5 22 (13.25%) Lead
6 18 (10.84%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (10.24%) AWS Data Engineer
7 17 (10.24%) Developer
8 16 (9.64%) Principal Data Engineer
9 15 (9.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (7.83%) Analyst
10 13 (7.83%) Data Architect
11 12 (7.23%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 12 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.63%) AWS Architect
13 9 (5.42%) Principal Software Engineer
13 9 (5.42%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (5.42%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.82%) Lead Data Engineer
15 7 (4.22%) AWS Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.51%) PySpark
2 36 (21.69%) Kafka
3 16 (9.64%) Great Expectations
4 11 (6.63%) React
5 9 (5.42%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.42%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (3.01%) OAuth
6 5 (3.01%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.41%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.41%) Node.js
7 4 (2.41%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.41%) YAML
8 3 (1.81%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.81%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.81%) JWT
8 3 (1.81%) Next.js
8 3 (1.81%) Plotly
8 3 (1.81%) SOAP
8 3 (1.81%) Spring
8 3 (1.81%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 51 (30.72%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.22%) NHS
3 6 (3.61%) PACS
3 6 (3.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.41%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.81%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.81%) IVR
5 3 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.81%) SCADA
6 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.41%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Unix
2 2 (1.20%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (57.23%) CI/CD
2 79 (47.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 78 (46.99%) Analytics
4 67 (40.36%) Data Engineering
5 61 (36.75%) DevOps
6 60 (36.14%) Data Modelling
6 60 (36.14%) ETL
7 53 (31.93%) Data Pipeline
8 46 (27.71%) Business Intelligence
9 42 (25.30%) Agile
9 42 (25.30%) Observability
10 38 (22.89%) Migration
11 35 (21.08%) Data Governance
12 33 (19.88%) AI
13 30 (18.07%) Data Architecture
14 28 (16.87%) LLM
15 27 (16.27%) Machine Learning
16 23 (13.86%) Test Automation
17 22 (13.25%) Data Analytics
18 21 (12.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 118 (71.08%) Python
2 81 (48.80%) SQL
3 21 (12.65%) C#
4 14 (8.43%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.63%) Bash
6 10 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.82%) Java
8 6 (3.61%) SAS Macro
8 6 (3.61%) Scala
9 4 (2.41%) R
10 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) PHP
11 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (35.54%) Security Cleared
2 50 (30.12%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.04%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (25.30%) Data Quality
2 23 (13.86%) GDPR
3 6 (3.61%) ISO 20022
3 6 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.61%) NIST
4 3 (1.81%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.81%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.81%) PMO
4 3 (1.81%) QA
4 3 (1.81%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 18 (10.84%) Docker
2 4 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 85 (51.20%) Terraform
2 23 (13.86%) Grafana
3 20 (12.05%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.43%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.01%) Ansible
6 4 (2.41%) Puppet
6 4 (2.41%) Salt
7 3 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (18.67%) Databricks
2 16 (9.64%) Google
3 13 (7.83%) Splunk
4 9 (5.42%) Confluent
5 8 (4.82%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.82%) Oracle
6 6 (3.61%) Tenable
7 5 (3.01%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.41%) Denodo
8 4 (2.41%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.81%) Adobe
9 3 (1.81%) Avaya
9 3 (1.81%) Cisco
9 3 (1.81%) Genesys
9 3 (1.81%) Informatica
9 3 (1.81%) Pega
9 3 (1.81%) Qualys
9 3 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.20%) IBM