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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 468 542
Rank change year-on-year -24 +74 +137
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 45 48 40
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.43% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 30
10th Percentile £419 £450 £300
25th Percentile £460 £509 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £617 £678
90th Percentile £675 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -8.70%

All Cloud 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 11,826 11,181 13,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.50% 36.09% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,083 7,436 10,014
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £649
90th Percentile £715 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 152 276
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.04 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%
75th Percentile £51.13 £58.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +22.73%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +11 24 £525 -8.70% 2
North of England -40 8 £575 -3.77% 3
North West -20 7 £575 -4.17% 1
Midlands -29 7 £446 -18.86%
East of England - 5 - -
West Midlands -24 4 £413 -25.00%
East Midlands - 3 £460 -
North East -8 1 £550 -9.84% 2
Yorkshire -28 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 11 (24.44%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (17.78%) Apache Spark
3 4 (8.89%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) Confluence
4 1 (2.22%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 36 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 36 (80.00%) Serverless
3 16 (35.56%) Snowflake
4 13 (28.89%) Amazon Kinesis
5 12 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (26.67%) Azure
6 11 (24.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 10 (22.22%) dbt
8 8 (17.78%) Datadog
9 7 (15.56%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (15.56%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (15.56%) GCP
10 6 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (13.33%) GitHub
11 5 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (11.11%) Apigee
11 5 (11.11%) Loggly
11 5 (11.11%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (35.56%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (28.89%) Relational Database
4 11 (24.44%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (24.44%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (17.78%) RDBMS
7 7 (15.56%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (15.56%) BigQuery
7 7 (15.56%) Data Lake
7 7 (15.56%) DynamoDB
7 7 (15.56%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (13.33%) Tableau
9 5 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (11.11%) MySQL
9 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
9 5 (11.11%) Redis
9 5 (11.11%) Redshift Spectrum
10 4 (8.89%) Power BI
11 3 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Git
1 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.11%) Gradle
2 5 (11.11%) Maven
2 5 (11.11%) SonarLint
2 5 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Finance
3 10 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Architect
2 16 (35.56%) Data Engineer
3 13 (28.89%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (24.44%) AWS Architect
5 9 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Technical Architect
7 5 (11.11%) Java Architect
7 5 (11.11%) Java Technical Architect
7 5 (11.11%) Snowflake Architect
8 4 (8.89%) AWS Data Architect
8 4 (8.89%) Data Architect
8 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (6.67%) Lead
10 2 (4.44%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (4.44%) AWS Solution Architect
10 2 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
11 1 (2.22%) Principal Architect
11 1 (2.22%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Kafka
2 5 (11.11%) Dropwizard
2 5 (11.11%) J2EE
2 5 (11.11%) JWT
2 5 (11.11%) Micronaut
2 5 (11.11%) RESTful
2 5 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.89%) AWS CDK
3 4 (8.89%) Celery
3 4 (8.89%) PySpark
4 3 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Beam
6 1 (2.22%) Pandas
6 1 (2.22%) Ray
6 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.11%) N-Tier
2 5 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) SCADA
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.22%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) ETL
2 24 (53.33%) Data Modelling
3 21 (46.67%) Analytics
4 20 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (42.22%) Data Engineering
6 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 18 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (35.56%) Data Architecture
9 15 (33.33%) Data Governance
10 13 (28.89%) Data Science
10 13 (28.89%) Mentoring
10 13 (28.89%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (22.22%) Agile
11 10 (22.22%) AI
11 10 (22.22%) Containerisation
11 10 (22.22%) Data Security
12 9 (20.00%) DevOps
12 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (17.78%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 37 (82.22%) Python
2 20 (44.44%) SQL
3 11 (24.44%) Java
4 3 (6.67%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) Scala
5 1 (2.22%) Bicep
5 1 (2.22%) HiveQL
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) AWS Certification
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 9 (20.00%) GDPR
2 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (4.44%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (53.33%) Terraform
2 8 (17.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Databricks
2 5 (11.11%) Gigya
3 3 (6.67%) Avaloq
3 3 (6.67%) StreamSets
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Foundry
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.22%) Palantir
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow