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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 480 479
Rank change year-on-year -67 -1 +98
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 69 31 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.30% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 15 34
10th Percentile £329 £421 £412
25th Percentile £410 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -10.64% +6.82%
75th Percentile £526 £585 £706
90th Percentile £645 £615 £768
UK median daily rate £447 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.90% - -4.55%
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 15,895 10,274 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.73% 37.29% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,618 6,952 7,901
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £718 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 269 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.07 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% -6.90% -14.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.62 £67.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.26% +1.79% -20.28%

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 28 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 28 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 -66 40 £450 -14.29% 30
North of England -57 16 £425 -26.09% 7
North East - 11 £413 - 2
Midlands -46 5 £469 -10.71% 3
North West -48 5 £500 -13.04% 3
West Midlands -50 5 £469 - 1
South East -59 2 £465 +15.55% 3
South West - 2 £452 - 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 23 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (28.99%) Apache
2 20 (28.99%) Apache Spark
3 16 (23.19%) Confluence
4 9 (13.04%) Jupyter
4 9 (13.04%) SAS
5 2 (2.90%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (95.65%) AWS
2 58 (84.06%) Amazon S3
3 50 (72.46%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (66.67%) Serverless
5 25 (36.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (31.88%) Power Platform
7 18 (26.09%) Azure
8 14 (20.29%) dbt
9 13 (18.84%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (17.39%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (14.49%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (10.14%) Azure AI
14 6 (8.70%) Amazon Bedrock
14 6 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (8.70%) Textract
15 5 (7.25%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (55.07%) Amazon Athena
2 29 (42.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (31.88%) Power BI
5 14 (20.29%) DynamoDB
6 13 (18.84%) Big Data
7 12 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (17.39%) Metadata
8 11 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (14.49%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (14.49%) Data Lake
10 6 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (8.70%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (8.70%) MongoDB
10 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
11 5 (7.25%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (7.25%) Delta Lake
11 5 (7.25%) Pentaho
11 5 (7.25%) Presto
12 4 (5.80%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 34 (49.28%) GitLab
2 18 (26.09%) Git
3 16 (23.19%) JIRA
4 6 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.90%) MLflow
General
1 19 (27.54%) Public Sector
2 17 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.84%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Finance
5 4 (5.80%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Local Government
7 2 (2.90%) Military
7 2 (2.90%) Publishing
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (56.52%) Data Engineer
2 17 (24.64%) Senior
3 16 (23.19%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) AWS Data Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (15.94%) Architect
6 7 (10.14%) Data Architect
6 7 (10.14%) Informatica Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Scala Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Lead
8 5 (7.25%) Test Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Developer
10 3 (4.35%) AWS Architect
10 3 (4.35%) Platform Architect
11 2 (2.90%) Data Migration Lead
11 2 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (2.90%) ETL Developer
11 2 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
11 2 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (68.12%) Terraform
2 34 (49.28%) PySpark
3 6 (8.70%) CSS
3 6 (8.70%) HTML
3 6 (8.70%) Play Framework
4 5 (7.25%) Kafka
5 3 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (4.35%) RESTful
6 1 (1.45%) FHIR
6 1 (1.45%) OAuth
6 1 (1.45%) REST
6 1 (1.45%) Spring
6 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.23%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.80%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.90%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.45%) Clustering
7 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.45%) PACS
7 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Unix
3 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (76.81%) CI/CD
2 40 (57.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (52.17%) Agile
4 35 (50.72%) Data Engineering
5 34 (49.28%) Data Pipeline
6 31 (44.93%) Data Modelling
6 31 (44.93%) ETL
7 27 (39.13%) DevOps
8 24 (34.78%) Analytics
9 23 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (31.88%) AI
10 22 (31.88%) Test Automation
11 15 (21.74%) Event-Driven
11 15 (21.74%) Machine Learning
12 14 (20.29%) Migration
13 13 (18.84%) Containerisation
13 13 (18.84%) Data Governance
13 13 (18.84%) Dimensional Modelling
14 11 (15.94%) Observability
15 10 (14.49%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 59 (85.51%) Python
2 54 (78.26%) SQL
3 16 (23.19%) Java
4 6 (8.70%) Bash
4 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.70%) PL/SQL
4 6 (8.70%) Scala
5 3 (4.35%) Bicep
5 3 (4.35%) Groovy
6 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.45%) COBOL
7 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.45%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 40 (57.97%) Security Cleared
2 35 (50.72%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.94%) AWS Certification
4 9 (13.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (11.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.90%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.25%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) DICOM
3 1 (1.45%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Grafana
2 6 (8.70%) Kibana
3 2 (2.90%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (33.33%) Informatica
2 10 (14.49%) Databricks
2 10 (14.49%) Oracle
3 5 (7.25%) Denodo
3 5 (7.25%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.25%) Splunk
4 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.90%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Teradata