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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 446 493
Rank change year-on-year -94 +47 +106
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 43 22 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.090% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.24% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 39
10th Percentile £370 £400 £358
25th Percentile £445 £422 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £491 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% -3.73% -15.00%
75th Percentile £565 £578 £603
90th Percentile £588 £614 £738
UK median daily rate £469 £523 £510
% change year-on-year -10.33% +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 14,317 9,110 11,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.20% 37.21% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,819 6,350 8,477
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £740 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 463 198 323
10th Percentile £15.95 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.50 £25.98 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.17% +23.69% -35.19%
75th Percentile £68.63 £39.69 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.88 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.36% +28.69% -38.94%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -35 30 £525 +7.69% 7
West Midlands -57 4 £464 -15.64% 2
Midlands -64 4 £464 +1.09% 2
North of England -66 4 £505 - 3
North East -17 2 £409 - 2
North West - 2 £513 - 1
South East - 1 £459 - 1
East of England - 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 13 (30.23%) Apache Spark
2 11 (25.58%) SAS
3 10 (23.26%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (13.95%) Confluence
5 3 (6.98%) Apache
6 2 (4.65%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (83.72%) Amazon S3
3 32 (74.42%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (65.12%) Serverless
5 12 (27.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (27.91%) Amazon Kinesis
6 11 (25.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (23.26%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (18.60%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (16.28%) dbt
10 6 (13.95%) Amazon Bedrock
11 5 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (11.63%) Amazon MSK
11 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
11 5 (11.63%) Snowflake
12 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (9.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (9.30%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (9.30%) Azure
13 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) 4G
1 1 (2.33%) 5G
1 1 (2.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (53.49%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (41.86%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (34.88%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (32.56%) Data Lake
5 13 (30.23%) Big Data
6 11 (25.58%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (16.28%) DynamoDB
8 6 (13.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (13.95%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (13.95%) Base SAS
8 6 (13.95%) MongoDB
8 6 (13.95%) NoSQL
8 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (11.63%) Apache Hudi
9 5 (11.63%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (11.63%) Metadata
9 5 (11.63%) Pentaho
9 5 (11.63%) Power BI
9 5 (11.63%) Presto
9 5 (11.63%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) GitLab
2 7 (16.28%) Git
3 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.95%) JIRA
4 3 (6.98%) Snyk
5 1 (2.33%) MLflow
General
1 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Banking
4 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Local Government
6 1 (2.33%) Billing
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Data Engineer
2 15 (34.88%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (23.26%) AWS Data Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Architect
5 7 (16.28%) Lead
6 6 (13.95%) Scala Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Senior
7 5 (11.63%) Data Architect
7 5 (11.63%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Platform Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Gen AI Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Architect
10 1 (2.33%) AWS Data Architect
10 1 (2.33%) Kafka Engineer
10 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) PySpark
2 8 (18.60%) HTML
3 6 (13.95%) CSS
3 6 (13.95%) Play Framework
4 5 (11.63%) Kafka
5 3 (6.98%) RESTful
6 2 (4.65%) Keras
6 2 (4.65%) LangChain
6 2 (4.65%) Matplotlib
6 2 (4.65%) NLTK
6 2 (4.65%) Node.js
6 2 (4.65%) NumPy
6 2 (4.65%) Pandas
6 2 (4.65%) Plotly
6 2 (4.65%) PyTorch
6 2 (4.65%) scikit-learn
6 2 (4.65%) SciPy
6 2 (4.65%) Seaborn
6 2 (4.65%) TensorFlow
6 2 (4.65%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.88%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.33%) Clustering
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.33%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
1 5 (11.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (69.77%) CI/CD
2 22 (51.16%) Data Modelling
3 21 (48.84%) Data Engineering
3 21 (48.84%) ETL
4 20 (46.51%) Agile
5 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (39.53%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (37.21%) Analytics
8 15 (34.88%) DevOps
9 12 (27.91%) Scrum
10 11 (25.58%) Migration
11 10 (23.26%) Clean Code
11 10 (23.26%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (20.93%) Machine Learning
13 8 (18.60%) AI
13 8 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (16.28%) Change Data Capture
14 7 (16.28%) Observability
14 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
15 6 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (93.02%) Python
2 27 (62.79%) SQL
3 14 (32.56%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.95%) SAS Macro
4 6 (13.95%) Scala
5 5 (11.63%) Bash
6 3 (6.98%) Bicep
7 2 (4.65%) Ada
7 2 (4.65%) C#
7 2 (4.65%) C++
7 2 (4.65%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) NIST
3 2 (4.65%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) DICOM
4 1 (2.33%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (65.12%) Terraform
2 11 (25.58%) Grafana
3 6 (13.95%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Databricks
2 5 (11.63%) Denodo
2 5 (11.63%) Dynatrace
2 5 (11.63%) Informatica
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
2 5 (11.63%) Splunk
3 4 (9.30%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.98%) Qualys
4 3 (6.98%) Tenable
5 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.33%) StreamSets