The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EMR skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)
Rank 376 410 -
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 1 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.019% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.025% 0.115% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £700 £510 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.25% -
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4012 4358 5145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.53% 16.18% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2559 2703 3152
Average daily rate £400 £385 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.89% -9.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 128 175
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Amazon EMR
England

Amazon EMR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London Amazon EMR Daily Rate Trend

Amazon EMR
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EMR within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +12 1 £700 +38.61%
Amazon EMR
England

Amazon EMR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 5 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Big Data
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) MapReduce
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (60.00%) Apache Pig
4 2 (40.00%) Twitter
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Python
5 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) RDF
5 1 (20.00%) MVC
5 1 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) C
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) Perl
5 1 (20.00%) PHP
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) MySQL
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) SOAP
5 1 (20.00%) Apache
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping

Amazon EMR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 Development
1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) MapReduce
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) Lucene
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Sphinx
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Pig
3 1 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 5 (100.00%) Big Data
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) Mahout
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Hypertable
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (20.00%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (20.00%) RDF
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (20.00%) Business Development
1 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (20.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) R
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Twitter