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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 391 291
Rank change year-on-year -112 -100 +282
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 178 162 315
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.49% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.16% 2.68% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 145 281
10th Percentile £406 £458 £500
25th Percentile £430 £525 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +27.49%
75th Percentile £575 £825 £888
90th Percentile £688 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £460 £514
% change year-on-year -4.62% -10.42% -26.64%
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 8,237 6,053 6,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.01% 18.30% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,500 4,058 4,671
10th Percentile £355 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 86 90
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.11 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.96 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £74.68 £83.75 £71.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.39% +24.93% -44.95%

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 26 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 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 26 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 -107 150 £500 -33.33% 90
London -107 100 £524 -30.17% 57
UK excluding London -70 55 £439 -4.62% 36
Work from Home -91 55 £450 -40.00% 32
North of England -56 22 £425 -26.09% 12
Scotland -19 10 £409 -19.80%
South West -30 10 £450 -30.77% 6
North East -32 9 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -35 9 £463 -22.92% 4
Midlands -38 9 £469 +4.22% 8
West Midlands -40 7 £469 +4.22% 3
South East -72 5 £525 +22.09% 6
North West -43 4 £565 -13.15% 7
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 5

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 34 (19.10%) Apache Spark
2 30 (16.85%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (16.29%) Apache
4 21 (11.80%) Confluence
5 11 (6.18%) Jupyter
5 11 (6.18%) SAS
6 4 (2.25%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.56%) Appian
7 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 170 (95.51%) AWS
2 147 (82.58%) Amazon S3
3 118 (66.29%) Serverless
4 113 (63.48%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (33.15%) Amazon EMR
6 56 (31.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 56 (31.46%) Power Platform
7 37 (20.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 36 (20.22%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (16.85%) dbt
10 27 (15.17%) Azure
11 23 (12.92%) Amazon Kinesis
11 23 (12.92%) GitHub
12 17 (9.55%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (8.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (7.87%) Amazon Bedrock
15 12 (6.74%) Amazon SageMaker
15 12 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) Firewall
2 2 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (41.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 55 (30.90%) Power BI
3 47 (26.40%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (23.03%) DynamoDB
5 39 (21.91%) Data Lake
6 27 (15.17%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (12.92%) Apache Iceberg
7 23 (12.92%) Tableau
8 13 (7.30%) Big Data
9 11 (6.18%) Amazon QuickSight
9 11 (6.18%) Metadata
10 9 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (4.49%) Delta Lake
12 7 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (3.93%) Data Vault
12 7 (3.93%) MySQL
13 6 (3.37%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (3.37%) Pentaho
13 6 (3.37%) PowerCenter
14 5 (2.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 57 (32.02%) GitLab
2 42 (23.60%) Git
3 23 (12.92%) JIRA
4 6 (3.37%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.81%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.25%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.25%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.69%) Postman
8 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.12%) JUnit
8 2 (1.12%) MLflow
8 2 (1.12%) Mockito
8 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
General
1 41 (23.03%) Public Sector
2 39 (21.91%) Finance
3 37 (20.79%) Social Skills
4 31 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.99%) Banking
6 9 (5.06%) Back Office
6 9 (5.06%) Legal
7 6 (3.37%) Military
8 5 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.81%) Front Office
9 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.69%) Publishing
10 2 (1.12%) Law
10 2 (1.12%) Police
10 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (47.19%) Data Engineer
2 42 (23.60%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (22.47%) Senior
4 33 (18.54%) Senior Data Engineer
5 31 (17.42%) AWS Data Engineer
6 20 (11.24%) Architect
7 14 (7.87%) Developer
8 13 (7.30%) Analyst
8 13 (7.30%) Lead
9 11 (6.18%) Data Architect
10 9 (5.06%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.06%) Data Analyst
10 9 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Informatica Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) AWS Data Architect
11 6 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Consultant
11 6 (3.37%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.37%) Test Engineer
12 5 (2.81%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (48.88%) Terraform
2 45 (25.28%) PySpark
3 14 (7.87%) Kafka
4 9 (5.06%) React
5 6 (3.37%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.25%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.69%) YAML
8 2 (1.12%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.12%) Faiss
8 2 (1.12%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.12%) Next.js
8 2 (1.12%) Node.js
8 2 (1.12%) Pandas
8 2 (1.12%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (1.12%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.12%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.12%) Spring
8 2 (1.12%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.12%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.37%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.37%) NHS
2 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.25%) Legacy Code
4 4 (2.25%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.12%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.12%) PACS
6 2 (1.12%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.12%) PropTech
6 2 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.93%) Linux
2 5 (2.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (54.49%) CI/CD
2 90 (50.56%) Data Pipeline
3 83 (46.63%) Analytics
4 80 (44.94%) Data Engineering
5 77 (43.26%) Business Intelligence
6 73 (41.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (37.08%) Data Modelling
8 61 (34.27%) ETL
9 49 (27.53%) DevOps
10 47 (26.40%) Agile
11 44 (24.72%) AI
12 36 (20.22%) Machine Learning
13 33 (18.54%) Migration
14 31 (17.42%) Data Governance
14 31 (17.42%) Test Automation
15 29 (16.29%) Validation
16 25 (14.04%) Event-Driven
16 25 (14.04%) Observability
16 25 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (13.48%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 128 (71.91%) Python
2 123 (69.10%) SQL
3 11 (6.18%) Bash
3 11 (6.18%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.62%) Java
5 6 (3.37%) PL/SQL
5 6 (3.37%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.25%) Scala
7 3 (1.69%) C#
7 3 (1.69%) R
8 2 (1.12%) COBOL
9 1 (0.56%) Bicep
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.56%) PHP
9 1 (0.56%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (38.76%) Security Cleared
2 64 (35.96%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.55%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 11 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.69%) Degree
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (43.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.18%) QA
3 4 (2.25%) GDPR
3 4 (2.25%) SLA
4 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 25 (14.04%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) HDFS
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (11.80%) Grafana
2 19 (10.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.18%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.37%) Ansible
5 4 (2.25%) Puppet
5 4 (2.25%) Salt
6 2 (1.12%) Control-M
6 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.48%) Informatica
2 15 (8.43%) Databricks
3 13 (7.30%) Oracle
4 12 (6.74%) Splunk
5 8 (4.49%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.93%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.37%) Denodo
7 6 (3.37%) SnapLogic
8 4 (2.25%) Tenable
9 3 (1.69%) Adobe
10 2 (1.12%) Confluent
10 2 (1.12%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.56%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.56%) Foundry
11 1 (0.56%) IBM
11 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.56%) Palantir
11 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow