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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 445 484
Rank change year-on-year -102 +39 +129
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 46 27 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.29% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 42
10th Percentile £386 £400 £350
25th Percentile £441 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £510
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +2.55% -18.40%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £649
90th Percentile £591 £625 £734
UK median daily rate £490 £523 £510
% change year-on-year -6.31% +2.55% -21.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 - -

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 14,201 9,209 11,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.91% 37.58% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,785 6,462 8,570
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 191 320
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +64.57% +26.98% -26.33%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.49 £33.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £27.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.58% +31.57% -35.38%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -36 31 £525 +10.53% 7
North of England -62 4 £518 -17.10% 2
Midlands -67 4 £423 -7.95% 3
West Midlands -61 3 £413 -25.00% 2
North East -18 2 £530 -15.10% 1
North West - 2 £513 - 1
East Midlands -31 1 £433 +4.72% 1
East of England - 1 - - 1
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 17 (36.96%) Apache Spark
2 13 (28.26%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (13.04%) SAS
4 3 (6.52%) Apache
5 1 (2.17%) Confluence
5 1 (2.17%) Jupyter
5 1 (2.17%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (82.61%) Amazon S3
3 33 (71.74%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (63.04%) Serverless
5 17 (36.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (26.09%) Amazon Kinesis
6 12 (26.09%) AWS Step Functions
7 10 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (19.57%) Snowflake
9 7 (15.22%) dbt
10 6 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (13.04%) Azure
11 5 (10.87%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (8.70%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
13 3 (6.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) 4G
1 1 (2.17%) 5G
1 1 (2.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (58.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (34.78%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (28.26%) Big Data
4 12 (26.09%) Data Lake
4 12 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (15.22%) Metadata
6 6 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (13.04%) Base SAS
6 6 (13.04%) MongoDB
6 6 (13.04%) NoSQL
6 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (10.87%) Apache Hudi
7 5 (10.87%) Presto
7 5 (10.87%) Redshift Spectrum
7 5 (10.87%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 4 (8.70%) Data Mart
8 4 (8.70%) Data Mining
8 4 (8.70%) Power BI
8 4 (8.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) GitLab
3 3 (6.52%) Snyk
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) MLflow
General
1 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Finance
4 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.87%) Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Local Government
8 1 (2.17%) Billing
8 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Data Engineer
2 15 (32.61%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (28.26%) Architect
4 9 (19.57%) AWS Data Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Lead
6 6 (13.04%) Data Architect
6 6 (13.04%) Scala Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) AWS Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Platform Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Data Architect
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Security Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Snowflake Architect
10 1 (2.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 1 (2.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) PySpark
2 8 (17.39%) HTML
2 8 (17.39%) Kafka
3 6 (13.04%) CSS
3 6 (13.04%) Play Framework
4 3 (6.52%) AWS CDK
4 3 (6.52%) RESTful
4 3 (6.52%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.35%) CrewAI
5 2 (4.35%) LangChain
5 2 (4.35%) LangGraph
5 2 (4.35%) Matplotlib
5 2 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (4.35%) Node.js
5 2 (4.35%) NumPy
5 2 (4.35%) Pandas
5 2 (4.35%) Plotly
5 2 (4.35%) SciPy
5 2 (4.35%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.52%) SCADA
4 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.17%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
1 5 (10.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 27 (58.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 22 (47.83%) ETL
5 21 (45.65%) Data Engineering
6 17 (36.96%) Agile
6 17 (36.96%) Analytics
6 17 (36.96%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (28.26%) Data Governance
8 12 (26.09%) DevOps
9 11 (23.91%) Data Architecture
10 10 (21.74%) Clean Code
10 10 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (19.57%) Machine Learning
11 9 (19.57%) Migration
12 8 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (17.39%) Scrum
13 7 (15.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 39 (84.78%) Python
2 24 (52.17%) SQL
3 15 (32.61%) Java
4 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.04%) SAS Macro
4 6 (13.04%) Scala
5 5 (10.87%) Bash
6 3 (6.52%) Bicep
7 2 (4.35%) Ada
7 2 (4.35%) C#
7 2 (4.35%) C++
7 2 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) AWS Certification
3 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 7 (15.22%) GDPR
3 6 (13.04%) NIST
4 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.17%) DICOM
5 1 (2.17%) HL7
5 1 (2.17%) NCSC
5 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (67.39%) Terraform
2 6 (13.04%) Grafana
2 6 (13.04%) Kibana
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Databricks
2 5 (10.87%) Splunk
3 4 (8.70%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.52%) Qualys
4 3 (6.52%) Tenable
5 1 (2.17%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.17%) Foundry
5 1 (2.17%) Informatica
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) Palantir
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) StreamSets