Amazon Athena Contracts

Amazon Athena
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon Athena skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon Athena over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 400 635
Rank change year-on-year +86 +235 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon Athena 200 179 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.41% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 2.44% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 152 58
10th Percentile £475 £488 £438
25th Percentile £550 £659 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +25.49% +10.87%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £759
90th Percentile - - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% +2.86%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,567 7,337 10,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.00% 16.91% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 5,241 7,525
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 143 186
10th Percentile £20.89 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -32.54% +36.70%
75th Percentile £65.46 £58.88 £73.41
90th Percentile £75.88 £72.50 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.19% +59.14%

Amazon Athena
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon Athena as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon Athena.

Daily rate trend for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Athena over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon Athena.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon Athena in the UK

Amazon Athena
Top 11 Contract 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 7 May 2025. 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 +76 183 £750 -6.25% 69
London +66 168 £775 -3.13% 49
Work from Home +53 129 £775 -3.13% 36
UK excluding London +53 20 £525 +2.44% 29
Scotland +25 11 £525 - 4
South West +35 5 £650 +26.83% 5
North of England +17 3 £413 +3.13% 7
North East - 2 £413 -
Midlands +21 1 £550 - 2
West Midlands +18 1 £550 - 1
North West +14 1 - - 6

Amazon Athena
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 120 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (45.50%) Apache
3 33 (16.50%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.00%) Confluence
5 2 (1.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 198 (99.00%) AWS
2 122 (61.00%) dbt
3 91 (45.50%) AWS Lambda
3 91 (45.50%) Serverless
4 65 (32.50%) Amazon S3
5 62 (31.00%) Snowflake
6 58 (29.00%) GCP
7 46 (23.00%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (14.00%) OpenShift
9 27 (13.50%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (12.50%) Dagster
11 23 (11.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (6.50%) Azure
13 13 (6.50%) GitHub
14 11 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (5.00%) Power Platform
16 9 (4.50%) Amazon EMR
16 9 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (58.50%) Apache Iceberg
2 112 (56.00%) Dremio
3 102 (51.00%) Apache Arrow
4 69 (34.50%) Apache Ignite
5 50 (25.00%) Data Lake
6 36 (18.00%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (12.00%) DynamoDB
8 22 (11.00%) Tableau
9 20 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (9.50%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (5.00%) Power BI
12 9 (4.50%) NoSQL
12 9 (4.50%) Parquet
13 7 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (3.50%) MySQL
14 6 (3.00%) Big Data
15 5 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
15 5 (2.50%) MongoDB
15 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (14.00%) Artifactory
2 6 (3.00%) GitLab
3 4 (2.00%) JIRA
4 3 (1.50%) Git
5 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.50%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 120 (60.00%) Finance
2 112 (56.00%) Front Office
3 59 (29.50%) Banking
4 47 (23.50%) Investment Banking
5 21 (10.50%) Social Skills
6 19 (9.50%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Military
9 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 131 (65.50%) AWS Engineer
2 88 (44.00%) Python Engineer
3 80 (40.00%) Data Engineer
4 75 (37.50%) Software Engineer
5 74 (37.00%) AWS Software Engineer
6 61 (30.50%) Developer
7 50 (25.00%) AWS Developer
8 49 (24.50%) Python Software Engineer
9 43 (21.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 39 (19.50%) Java Engineer
10 39 (19.50%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (16.00%) Python Developer
11 32 (16.00%) Senior
12 31 (15.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
13 30 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 23 (11.50%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (11.00%) AWS Data Engineer
16 20 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
16 20 (10.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (40.00%) PySpark
2 71 (35.50%) Pandas
3 66 (33.00%) NumPy
3 66 (33.00%) SciPy
4 41 (20.50%) gRPC
4 41 (20.50%) Protocol Buffers
5 38 (19.00%) Kafka
6 35 (17.50%) Node.js
7 34 (17.00%) React
8 28 (14.00%) AngularJS
8 28 (14.00%) J2EE
9 27 (13.50%) Vue
10 11 (5.50%) AWS CDK
11 10 (5.00%) Redux
12 7 (3.50%) boto
12 7 (3.50%) JSON
13 2 (1.00%) Plotly
14 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
14 1 (0.50%) pytest
14 1 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 74 (37.00%) Fixed Income
2 58 (29.00%) Equities
2 58 (29.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 47 (23.50%) Derivative
3 47 (23.50%) Hedge funds
4 14 (7.00%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.50%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.50%) NHS
8 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (67.00%) Agile
2 115 (57.50%) Software Engineering
3 113 (56.50%) Asset Management
4 71 (35.50%) DevOps
5 64 (32.00%) CI/CD
6 57 (28.50%) Data Engineering
7 49 (24.50%) Investment Management
8 37 (18.50%) Fintech
9 32 (16.00%) Migration
10 29 (14.50%) Analytics
10 29 (14.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 28 (14.00%) Open Source
12 27 (13.50%) Performance Attribution
13 26 (13.00%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (12.00%) ETL
16 23 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
17 20 (10.00%) Data Management
18 17 (8.50%) Order Management
18 17 (8.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (83.50%) Python
2 96 (48.00%) Java
3 69 (34.50%) SQL
4 64 (32.00%) TypeScript
5 61 (30.50%) JavaScript
6 28 (14.00%) Go
7 6 (3.00%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.50%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.50%) Scala
9 2 (1.00%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.00%) R
10 1 (0.50%) Bash
10 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (15.50%) SC Cleared
1 31 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.50%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.00%) Degree
4 5 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.50%) GDPR
2 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 41 (20.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (32.00%) Terraform
2 44 (22.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (4.00%) Databricks
1 8 (4.00%) Splunk
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.00%) Oracle
3 4 (2.00%) Google
3 4 (2.00%) Informatica
3 4 (2.00%) MuleSoft
3 4 (2.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.00%) Teradata
4 2 (1.00%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.00%) Cribl.io
4 2 (1.00%) TSYS
5 1 (0.50%) IBM
5 1 (0.50%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.50%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.50%) Talend
5 1 (0.50%) TOWER Software