The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EMR skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon EMR over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)
Rank 200 210 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.039% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.091% 0.256% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £700 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1093 1173 1447
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.36% 15.08% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 788 1031
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 35 63
Average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -3.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.20 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Amazon EMR
London

Amazon EMR
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Amazon EMR across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

City of London Amazon EMR Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Amazon EMR across the City of London region.

City of London Amazon EMR Daily Rate Trend

Amazon EMR
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Amazon EMR also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon EMR.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) Mahout
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pig

Amazon EMR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Amazon EMR also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon EMR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pig
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Mahout
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R