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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 474 475
Rank change year-on-year -69 +1 +93
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 82 40 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.37% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 18 29
10th Percentile £376 £436 £425
25th Percentile £413 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -10.26% +6.36%
75th Percentile £513 £597 £713
90th Percentile £629 £640 £775
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £62.17 - -
25th Percentile £63.92 - -
Median hourly rate £69.83 - -
75th Percentile £72.92 - -
90th Percentile £72.97 - -
UK median hourly rate £69.83 - -

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 15,923 10,795 11,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.42% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,605 7,284 7,564
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 256 161
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -70 44 £450 -14.29% 43
North of England -54 18 £425 -26.09% 15
North East - 12 £419 - 5
Midlands -35 10 £469 -10.71% 3
West Midlands -37 8 £472 - 1
North West -53 5 £429 -25.39% 6
South East -59 4 £535 +33.08% 1
East Midlands -18 2 £404 -23.18% 2
South West - 2 £452 - 2
Yorkshire -34 1 £463 - 4
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 29 (35.37%) Apache Spark
2 27 (32.93%) Apache
3 24 (29.27%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (18.29%) Confluence
5 9 (10.98%) Jupyter
6 8 (9.76%) SAS
7 2 (2.44%) PowerExchange
8 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 79 (96.34%) AWS
2 70 (85.37%) Amazon S3
3 49 (59.76%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (56.10%) Serverless
5 29 (35.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 24 (29.27%) Power Platform
7 22 (26.83%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (21.95%) Azure
9 17 (20.73%) dbt
10 12 (14.63%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (10.98%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (10.98%) Snowflake
13 8 (9.76%) GitHub
13 8 (9.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (8.54%) Azure AI
15 6 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
15 6 (7.32%) Textract
16 5 (6.10%) Amazon Bedrock
16 5 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 34 (41.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (30.49%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (29.27%) Power BI
5 19 (23.17%) Data Lake
6 15 (18.29%) DynamoDB
7 14 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (17.07%) Big Data
8 11 (13.41%) Apache Iceberg
8 11 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (12.20%) Metadata
10 8 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (8.54%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (7.32%) MongoDB
12 6 (7.32%) NoSQL
13 5 (6.10%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (6.10%) Delta Lake
13 5 (6.10%) Pentaho
13 5 (6.10%) Presto
13 5 (6.10%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (47.56%) GitLab
2 18 (21.95%) Git
3 15 (18.29%) JIRA
4 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.44%) MLflow
6 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (23.17%) Public Sector
2 18 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Finance
5 5 (6.10%) Banking
6 2 (2.44%) Local Government
6 2 (2.44%) Military
6 2 (2.44%) Publishing
6 2 (2.44%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.22%) Marketing
7 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (60.98%) Data Engineer
2 22 (26.83%) Senior
3 19 (23.17%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (21.95%) Senior Data Engineer
5 17 (20.73%) AWS Data Engineer
6 10 (12.20%) Architect
7 7 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.54%) Informatica Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Scala Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) Lead
9 5 (6.10%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.88%) AWS Architect
10 4 (4.88%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.88%) Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.66%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Databricks Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Migration Architect
11 3 (3.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (64.63%) Terraform
2 40 (48.78%) PySpark
3 6 (7.32%) CSS
3 6 (7.32%) HTML
3 6 (7.32%) Play Framework
4 5 (6.10%) Kafka
5 3 (3.66%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (3.66%) RESTful
6 1 (1.22%) MLlib
6 1 (1.22%) OAuth
6 1 (1.22%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (6.10%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.44%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.44%) Replication
9 1 (1.22%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.22%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.22%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.41%) Linux
2 8 (9.76%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (73.17%) CI/CD
2 46 (56.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 40 (48.78%) Data Engineering
5 38 (46.34%) Agile
5 38 (46.34%) ETL
6 35 (42.68%) Analytics
6 35 (42.68%) Data Modelling
7 32 (39.02%) DevOps
8 26 (31.71%) AI
9 25 (30.49%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (29.27%) Test Automation
11 19 (23.17%) Migration
12 18 (21.95%) Machine Learning
13 17 (20.73%) Validation
14 15 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (17.07%) Data Governance
15 14 (17.07%) Observability
16 13 (15.85%) Event-Driven
16 13 (15.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 65 (79.27%) Python
2 62 (75.61%) SQL
3 18 (21.95%) Java
4 9 (10.98%) Scala
5 6 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.32%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.10%) Bash
7 3 (3.66%) Groovy
7 3 (3.66%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.44%) Bicep
9 1 (1.22%) COBOL
9 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 47 (57.32%) Security Cleared
2 41 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.85%) AWS Certification
4 9 (10.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.44%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (37.80%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.10%) QA
System Software
1 17 (20.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (15.85%) Grafana
2 7 (8.54%) Kibana
3 2 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) Control-M
4 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (28.05%) Informatica
2 10 (12.20%) Databricks
2 10 (12.20%) Oracle
3 6 (7.32%) Splunk
4 5 (6.10%) Denodo
4 5 (6.10%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.66%) Teradata
6 2 (2.44%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.22%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.22%) Tenable