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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 476 535
Rank change year-on-year -19 +59 +156
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 50 46 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.15% 0.099%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.41% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 29
10th Percentile £410 £420 £300
25th Percentile £450 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £688
90th Percentile £655 £755 £738
UK median daily rate £481 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -9.48%

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 11,787 11,196 13,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.55% 35.81% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,030 7,444 10,120
10th Percentile £304 £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 £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 148 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.93 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.27 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% +22.09% +21.11%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.68 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.30 £29.86
% change year-on-year -14.18% +1.46% +35.73%

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 22 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 22 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 -1 25 £525 -8.70% 23
Midlands -30 8 £451 - 1
North of England -35 8 £575 -1.71% 9
North West -20 7 £575 +9.52% 6
East of England - 5 - - 1
West Midlands -24 4 £413 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £455 -
South East -2 3 £402 -23.43% 2
North East -5 1 £550 -9.84% 2
Yorkshire -39 1 - - 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 12 (24.00%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (18.00%) Apache Spark
3 5 (10.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (2.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 40 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 40 (80.00%) Serverless
3 17 (34.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 16 (32.00%) Snowflake
5 12 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (24.00%) Azure
6 11 (22.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 10 (20.00%) dbt
8 8 (16.00%) Datadog
9 7 (14.00%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (14.00%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (14.00%) GCP
10 6 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (12.00%) GitHub
11 5 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (10.00%) Apigee
11 5 (10.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (62.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 20 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (28.00%) Relational Database
4 12 (24.00%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (16.00%) NoSQL
7 8 (16.00%) RDBMS
8 7 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (14.00%) BigQuery
8 7 (14.00%) Data Lake
8 7 (14.00%) DynamoDB
8 7 (14.00%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (12.00%) Tableau
10 5 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (10.00%) MySQL
10 5 (10.00%) Redis
10 5 (10.00%) Redshift Spectrum
11 4 (8.00%) Power BI
12 3 (6.00%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (16.00%) Git
3 5 (10.00%) Gradle
3 5 (10.00%) Maven
3 5 (10.00%) SonarLint
3 5 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Finance
3 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Military
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (52.00%) Architect
2 19 (38.00%) Data Engineer
3 15 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (26.00%) AWS Architect
5 10 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Technical Architect
7 5 (10.00%) AWS Data Architect
7 5 (10.00%) Data Architect
7 5 (10.00%) Java Architect
7 5 (10.00%) Java Technical Architect
7 5 (10.00%) Snowflake Architect
8 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Lead
10 2 (4.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (4.00%) AWS Solution Architect
10 2 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Senior
10 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) Kafka
2 5 (10.00%) Dropwizard
2 5 (10.00%) J2EE
2 5 (10.00%) JWT
2 5 (10.00%) Micronaut
2 5 (10.00%) PySpark
2 5 (10.00%) RESTful
2 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.00%) AWS CDK
3 4 (8.00%) Celery
4 3 (6.00%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.00%) Node.js
6 1 (2.00%) Apache Beam
6 1 (2.00%) Pandas
6 1 (2.00%) Ray
6 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (16.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.00%) N-Tier
4 3 (6.00%) SCADA
5 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) ETL
2 29 (58.00%) Data Modelling
3 24 (48.00%) Analytics
3 24 (48.00%) Data Engineering
4 23 (46.00%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
5 21 (42.00%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (38.00%) Data Governance
8 18 (36.00%) Data Science
9 17 (34.00%) Data Architecture
10 16 (32.00%) Mentoring
10 16 (32.00%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (28.00%) Data Security
12 13 (26.00%) Agile
12 13 (26.00%) Containerisation
13 12 (24.00%) DevOps
14 10 (20.00%) AI
15 9 (18.00%) Business Intelligence
15 9 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (84.00%) Python
2 25 (50.00%) SQL
3 15 (30.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) Scala
5 3 (6.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) Bicep
6 1 (2.00%) HiveQL
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) AWS Certification
2 11 (22.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (18.00%) GDPR
3 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.00%) NIST
4 2 (4.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.00%) QA
5 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (48.00%) Terraform
2 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Databricks
2 5 (10.00%) Gigya
3 3 (6.00%) Avaloq
3 3 (6.00%) StreamSets
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Foundry
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.00%) Palantir
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow