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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 353 497
Rank change year-on-year -104 +144 +131
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 132 175 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.56% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.01% 3.06% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 154 82
10th Percentile £394 £468 £418
25th Percentile £428 £520 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £667
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +1.24% +2.58%
75th Percentile £619 £838 £788
90th Percentile £825 £888 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £409 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -22.14% -4.55% -15.38%

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 6,560 5,721 7,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.47% 18.47% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,507 3,802 5,155
10th Percentile £338 £354 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 89 176
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £15.95
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.00 £21.48
Median hourly rate £54.60 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.27% -10.33% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.23 £70.75 £77.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +83.33% -25.47% -29.21%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -132 99 £525 -22.22% 43
London -76 91 £536 -20.59% 16
Work from Home -81 40 £640 -17.42% 22
UK excluding London -63 25 £409 -22.14% 28
Scotland +15 17 £402 -23.43%
West Midlands -48 3 £413 -25.00%
Midlands -51 3 £413 -25.00%
South East -30 2 £525 - 4
North of England -61 2 £525 -22.22% 19
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -
North East - 1 £550 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 13

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 (26.52%) Apache
2 25 (18.94%) Apache Spark
3 24 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 131 (99.24%) AWS
2 89 (67.42%) Amazon S3
3 63 (47.73%) AWS Lambda
3 63 (47.73%) Serverless
4 49 (37.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 36 (27.27%) AWS Step Functions
6 23 (17.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 22 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 21 (15.91%) dbt
9 20 (15.15%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (14.39%) GCP
11 18 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (12.88%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (11.36%) Azure
14 14 (10.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (10.61%) Collibra
14 14 (10.61%) GitHub
15 13 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (34.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 33 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 22 (16.67%) OLTP
3 22 (16.67%) Power BI
4 21 (15.91%) Apache Iceberg
5 17 (12.88%) Mixpanel
5 17 (12.88%) OLAP
6 16 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (12.12%) DynamoDB
7 15 (11.36%) BigQuery
7 15 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (9.09%) Apache Arrow
9 12 (9.09%) Dremio
10 11 (8.33%) Tableau
11 9 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (6.06%) Apache Ignite
12 8 (6.06%) Delta Lake
12 8 (6.06%) Metadata
13 7 (5.30%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 23 (17.42%) GitLab
2 11 (8.33%) Git
3 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.55%) MLflow
4 5 (3.79%) JIRA
5 2 (1.52%) Snyk
6 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.76%) JMeter
6 1 (0.76%) JUnit
6 1 (0.76%) Locust
6 1 (0.76%) Maven
6 1 (0.76%) Mockito
6 1 (0.76%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) RStudio
General
1 28 (21.21%) Finance
1 28 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.09%) Front Office
4 10 (7.58%) Banking
5 8 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.06%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) iGaming
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (31.82%) Data Engineer
2 37 (28.03%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (19.70%) Architect
4 24 (18.18%) Senior
5 23 (17.42%) Software Engineer
6 19 (14.39%) Data Architect
7 18 (13.64%) Python Engineer
8 15 (11.36%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (10.61%) Principal Data Engineer
10 13 (9.85%) Lead
11 12 (9.09%) Analyst
11 12 (9.09%) AWS Architect
11 12 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
11 12 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
12 11 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
12 11 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (8.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 11 (8.33%) Principal Software Engineer
13 9 (6.82%) AWS Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.24%) Kafka
2 27 (20.45%) PySpark
3 15 (11.36%) Great Expectations
3 15 (11.36%) Protocol Buffers
4 12 (9.09%) NumPy
4 12 (9.09%) Pandas
4 12 (9.09%) SciPy
5 10 (7.58%) Node.js
6 8 (6.06%) gRPC
7 7 (5.30%) Apache Avro
8 5 (3.79%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (3.03%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.03%) AWS CDK
9 4 (3.03%) OAuth
9 4 (3.03%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.03%) Plotly
9 4 (3.03%) React
9 4 (3.03%) Vue
10 3 (2.27%) JWT
11 2 (1.52%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 37 (28.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.09%) Equities
2 12 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 12 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.06%) Derivative
3 8 (6.06%) Hedge funds
3 8 (6.06%) Pricing Data
4 4 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.03%) PACS
4 4 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.27%) IVR
5 3 (2.27%) NHS
5 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.27%) SCADA
6 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.76%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.76%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Linux
1 2 (1.52%) Windows
1 2 (1.52%) zOS
2 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (50.76%) CI/CD
2 63 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (38.64%) Analytics
4 49 (37.12%) ETL
5 47 (35.61%) Data Modelling
5 47 (35.61%) DevOps
6 44 (33.33%) Data Engineering
7 35 (26.52%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (22.73%) Data Governance
8 30 (22.73%) Migration
9 29 (21.97%) Agile
10 27 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (20.45%) Observability
11 25 (18.94%) Software Engineering
12 24 (18.18%) Data Architecture
13 22 (16.67%) AI
14 18 (13.64%) Asset Management
14 18 (13.64%) Machine Learning
15 17 (12.88%) Data Analytics
15 17 (12.88%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 93 (70.45%) Python
2 58 (43.94%) SQL
3 16 (12.12%) C#
3 16 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.85%) Java
4 13 (9.85%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.03%) Scala
6 3 (2.27%) Bash
7 2 (1.52%) R
8 1 (0.76%) COBOL
8 1 (0.76%) Go
8 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (32.58%) Security Cleared
2 39 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 27 (20.45%) GDPR
3 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.79%) HIPAA
4 5 (3.79%) NIST
5 4 (3.03%) ISO 20022
6 3 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.27%) PMO
7 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.76%) NCSC
8 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (50.76%) Terraform
2 12 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.55%) Grafana
4 4 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.76%) Ansible
6 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.76%) Puppet
6 1 (0.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (20.45%) Databricks
2 14 (10.61%) Google
3 7 (5.30%) Confluent
4 6 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.55%) Oracle
5 3 (2.27%) Avaya
5 3 (2.27%) Cisco
5 3 (2.27%) Genesys
5 3 (2.27%) Pega
5 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.52%) IBM
6 2 (1.52%) Qualys
6 2 (1.52%) Tenable
7 1 (0.76%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.76%) GoldenSource