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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 486 476
Rank change year-on-year -58 -10 +96
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 69 30 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.29% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 14 34
10th Percentile £314 £402 £412
25th Percentile £406 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -9.68% +5.68%
75th Percentile £505 £571 £676
90th Percentile £614 £614 £768
UK median daily rate £445 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -15.24% - -8.70%
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 15,926 10,278 11,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.18% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 6,965 7,955
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 273 230
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.01 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -49 44 £447 -14.90% 28
North of England -57 13 £425 -26.09% 3
North East - 11 £413 -
West Midlands -39 5 £469 -
Midlands -52 5 £469 +4.11% 2
North West -50 2 £590 +2.61% 3
South East -63 2 £465 +15.55%
South West - 2 £452 - 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 22 (31.88%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (30.43%) Apache Spark
3 20 (28.99%) Apache
4 14 (20.29%) Confluence
5 12 (17.39%) SAS
6 9 (13.04%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (95.65%) AWS
2 57 (82.61%) Amazon S3
3 45 (65.22%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (59.42%) Serverless
5 24 (34.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (26.09%) Power Platform
7 14 (20.29%) Azure
8 13 (18.84%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (15.94%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (15.94%) dbt
11 8 (11.59%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (10.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (8.70%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (7.25%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (7.25%) Azure AI
14 5 (7.25%) Textract
15 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
16 3 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) 4G
1 1 (1.45%) 5G
1 1 (1.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (55.07%) Amazon Athena
2 25 (36.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (31.88%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (26.09%) Power BI
5 14 (20.29%) Big Data
6 12 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (15.94%) Data Lake
7 11 (15.94%) DynamoDB
7 11 (15.94%) Metadata
7 11 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (13.04%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (8.70%) Base SAS
9 6 (8.70%) MongoDB
9 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
10 5 (7.25%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (7.25%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (7.25%) Pentaho
10 5 (7.25%) Presto
10 5 (7.25%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 30 (43.48%) GitLab
2 21 (30.43%) Git
3 14 (20.29%) JIRA
4 6 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.90%) MLflow
6 1 (1.45%) Snyk
General
1 18 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 10 (14.49%) Finance
5 8 (11.59%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Local Government
7 2 (2.90%) Publishing
8 1 (1.45%) Billing
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Military
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (52.17%) Data Engineer
2 17 (24.64%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (21.74%) Senior
4 13 (18.84%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (17.39%) AWS Data Engineer
6 10 (14.49%) Architect
7 6 (8.70%) Data Architect
7 6 (8.70%) Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Informatica Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Lead
7 6 (8.70%) Scala Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) AWS Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Platform Architect
10 2 (2.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (2.90%) ETL Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Gen AI Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Python Developer
11 1 (1.45%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (47.83%) PySpark
2 6 (8.70%) CSS
2 6 (8.70%) HTML
2 6 (8.70%) Play Framework
3 5 (7.25%) Kafka
4 3 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (4.35%) RESTful
5 1 (1.45%) FHIR
5 1 (1.45%) OAuth
5 1 (1.45%) REST
5 1 (1.45%) Spring
5 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.70%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.80%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.45%) Clustering
7 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.45%) PACS
7 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (79.71%) CI/CD
2 37 (53.62%) Agile
3 36 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (50.72%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (49.28%) Data Engineering
6 31 (44.93%) Data Modelling
6 31 (44.93%) ETL
7 28 (40.58%) DevOps
8 26 (37.68%) Analytics
9 19 (27.54%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (27.54%) Test Automation
10 17 (24.64%) AI
11 15 (21.74%) Event-Driven
12 14 (20.29%) Machine Learning
13 13 (18.84%) Migration
14 12 (17.39%) Containerisation
14 12 (17.39%) Data Governance
14 12 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (17.39%) Scrum
15 11 (15.94%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 59 (85.51%) Python
2 49 (71.01%) SQL
3 17 (24.64%) Java
4 7 (10.14%) Bash
5 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.70%) SAS Macro
5 6 (8.70%) Scala
6 4 (5.80%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.35%) Bicep
7 3 (4.35%) Groovy
8 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (53.62%) Security Cleared
2 32 (46.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.49%) AWS Certification
4 7 (10.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 7 (10.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.90%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (27.54%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.25%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) DICOM
3 1 (1.45%) HL7
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (24.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (63.77%) Terraform
2 11 (15.94%) Grafana
3 6 (8.70%) Kibana
4 1 (1.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (27.54%) Informatica
2 8 (11.59%) Databricks
3 6 (8.70%) Oracle
4 5 (7.25%) Denodo
4 5 (7.25%) Dynatrace
4 5 (7.25%) Splunk
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.90%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.45%) Qualys
6 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.45%) Tenable
6 1 (1.45%) Teradata