Amazon EMR Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon EMR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 443 488
Rank change year-on-year -93 +45 +156
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 41 28 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.30% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 42
10th Percentile £384 £400 £350
25th Percentile £426 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +0.49% -11.30%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £637
90th Percentile £649 £602 £704
UK median daily rate £461 £523 £518
% change year-on-year -11.81% +1.06% -13.75%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Amazon EMR falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,849 9,257 12,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.99% 37.79% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 6,463 8,760
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £711 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 172 330
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £27.13 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +37.55% +28.04% -15.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.48 £40.75
90th Percentile £79.95 £74.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +39.62% +24.01% -16.13%

Amazon EMR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EMR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Amazon EMR job vacancy trend in England

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon EMR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EMR in England over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EMR in England

Amazon EMR
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon EMR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EMR within the England region over the 6 months to 21 March 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
London -43 28 £490 +3.16% 15
Midlands -60 5 £433 -5.77% 1
West Midlands -60 3 £413 -25.00%
East Midlands -33 2 £446 +8.05% 1
North of England -69 2 £538 -13.90% 4
North East -17 1 £550 -11.90% 1
North West - 1 £525 - 3
East of England - 1 - - 2
Amazon EMR
UK

Amazon EMR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 10 (24.39%) Apache Spark
2 7 (17.07%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (12.20%) SAS
4 3 (7.32%) Apache
5 2 (4.88%) Confluence
6 1 (2.44%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (78.05%) Amazon S3
3 29 (70.73%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (70.73%) Serverless
4 14 (34.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (26.83%) AWS Step Functions
6 9 (21.95%) Amazon Kinesis
7 8 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (19.51%) Snowflake
8 6 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (12.20%) dbt
10 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (9.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
11 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (7.32%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (7.32%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
11 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) 4G
1 1 (2.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (58.54%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (36.59%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (31.71%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (21.95%) Data Lake
5 6 (14.63%) Apache Iceberg
5 6 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
5 6 (14.63%) Tableau
6 5 (12.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (12.20%) Base SAS
6 5 (12.20%) Big Data
6 5 (12.20%) Redshift Spectrum
7 4 (9.76%) Power BI
7 4 (9.76%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (7.32%) Data Mart
8 3 (7.32%) Metadata
9 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
9 2 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.32%) Snyk
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.44%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) MLflow
General
1 16 (39.02%) Finance
2 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Banking
4 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.88%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Billing
7 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) AWS Engineer
1 15 (36.59%) Data Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Architect
3 8 (19.51%) AWS Data Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) AWS Architect
4 7 (17.07%) Lead
5 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Architect
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 1 (2.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Integration Manager
8 1 (2.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) PySpark
2 7 (17.07%) Kafka
3 4 (9.76%) Node.js
4 3 (7.32%) AWS CDK
4 3 (7.32%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.88%) CrewAI
5 2 (4.88%) Keras
5 2 (4.88%) LangChain
5 2 (4.88%) LangGraph
5 2 (4.88%) Matplotlib
5 2 (4.88%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (4.88%) NLTK
5 2 (4.88%) Pandas
5 2 (4.88%) Plotly
5 2 (4.88%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.88%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.88%) SciPy
5 2 (4.88%) Seaborn
5 2 (4.88%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.88%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) SCADA
3 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.44%) PACS
4 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Data Modelling
2 22 (53.66%) CI/CD
2 22 (53.66%) Data Engineering
2 22 (53.66%) ETL
2 22 (53.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (43.90%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (39.02%) Analytics
5 13 (31.71%) Data Governance
6 12 (29.27%) Data Architecture
6 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (26.83%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (26.83%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (21.95%) Data Science
9 8 (19.51%) DevOps
9 8 (19.51%) Machine Learning
9 8 (19.51%) Migration
9 8 (19.51%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (17.07%) Agile
10 7 (17.07%) Data Security
10 7 (17.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (85.37%) Python
2 18 (43.90%) SQL
3 8 (19.51%) Java
4 7 (17.07%) Bash
5 5 (12.20%) SAS Macro
6 2 (4.88%) Ada
6 2 (4.88%) C#
6 2 (4.88%) C++
6 2 (4.88%) R
7 1 (2.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) AWS Certification
2 8 (19.51%) Security Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 7 (17.07%) GDPR
3 6 (14.63%) NIST
4 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (7.32%) QA
5 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.44%) DICOM
6 1 (2.44%) HL7
6 1 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (56.10%) Terraform
2 3 (7.32%) Ansible
2 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Databricks
2 3 (7.32%) Avaloq
2 3 (7.32%) Qualys
2 3 (7.32%) Tenable
3 2 (4.88%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.44%) Foundry
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) Palantir
4 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.44%) StreamSets