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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 475 477
Rank change year-on-year -81 +2 +95
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 73 34 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.33% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 15 36
10th Percentile £340 £421 £416
25th Percentile £413 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -11.39% +7.73%
75th Percentile £517 £585 £692
90th Percentile £641 £615 £763
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -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 16,045 10,434 11,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.58% 37.50% 34.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,714 7,046 7,784
10th Percentile £320 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 259 186
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £19.96
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%
75th Percentile £69.96 £45.14 £60.95
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -14.29%

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 September 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 September 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 -48 43 £450 -14.29% 15
North of England -60 17 £425 -26.09% 4
North East - 11 £413 - 1
West Midlands -43 5 £469 -
North West -43 5 £500 -13.04% 2
Midlands -46 5 £469 -10.71% 2
South East -59 2 £465 +15.55% 3
South West - 2 £452 - 2
Yorkshire -38 1 £463 - 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 (31.51%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (28.77%) Apache Spark
3 20 (27.40%) Apache
4 16 (21.92%) Confluence
5 9 (12.33%) Jupyter
5 9 (12.33%) SAS
6 2 (2.74%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 70 (95.89%) AWS
2 62 (84.93%) Amazon S3
3 50 (68.49%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (63.01%) Serverless
5 25 (34.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (30.14%) Power Platform
7 19 (26.03%) Azure
8 18 (24.66%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (23.29%) dbt
10 12 (16.44%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (12.33%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (10.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (9.59%) Azure AI
13 7 (9.59%) GitHub
13 7 (9.59%) Snowflake
14 6 (8.22%) Amazon Bedrock
14 6 (8.22%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (8.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (8.22%) Textract
15 5 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (53.42%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (41.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (31.51%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (30.14%) Power BI
5 15 (20.55%) DynamoDB
6 14 (19.18%) Big Data
7 12 (16.44%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (16.44%) Metadata
8 11 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (13.70%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (13.70%) Data Lake
10 6 (8.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (8.22%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
10 6 (8.22%) NoSQL
10 6 (8.22%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (6.85%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (6.85%) Pentaho
11 5 (6.85%) Presto
12 4 (5.48%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 36 (49.32%) GitLab
2 19 (26.03%) Git
3 16 (21.92%) JIRA
4 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.37%) MLflow
5 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (27.40%) Public Sector
2 17 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 4 (5.48%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Local Government
6 2 (2.74%) Military
6 2 (2.74%) Publishing
7 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Marketing
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (57.53%) Data Engineer
2 20 (27.40%) Senior
3 17 (23.29%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (21.92%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (19.18%) AWS Data Engineer
6 10 (13.70%) Architect
7 7 (9.59%) Data Architect
7 7 (9.59%) Informatica Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Scala Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Lead
9 5 (6.85%) Test Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Developer
10 4 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) AWS Architect
12 2 (2.74%) Data Migration Lead
12 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Architect
12 2 (2.74%) ETL Developer
12 2 (2.74%) Platform Architect
12 2 (2.74%) Senior DevOps
12 2 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (69.86%) Terraform
2 37 (50.68%) PySpark
3 6 (8.22%) CSS
3 6 (8.22%) HTML
3 6 (8.22%) Play Framework
4 5 (6.85%) Kafka
5 3 (4.11%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (4.11%) RESTful
6 1 (1.37%) FHIR
6 1 (1.37%) OAuth
6 1 (1.37%) REST
6 1 (1.37%) Spring
6 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (32.88%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.48%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.74%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.37%) Clustering
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.37%) PACS
7 1 (1.37%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.37%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.70%) Linux
2 7 (9.59%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (78.08%) CI/CD
2 44 (60.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (50.68%) Agile
3 37 (50.68%) Data Pipeline
4 35 (47.95%) Data Engineering
5 34 (46.58%) Data Modelling
6 32 (43.84%) DevOps
7 31 (42.47%) ETL
8 24 (32.88%) Analytics
9 23 (31.51%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (30.14%) Test Automation
11 21 (28.77%) AI
12 15 (20.55%) Machine Learning
13 14 (19.18%) Containerisation
13 14 (19.18%) Event-Driven
13 14 (19.18%) Migration
14 13 (17.81%) Dimensional Modelling
15 12 (16.44%) Data Governance
15 12 (16.44%) Validation
16 11 (15.07%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 60 (82.19%) Python
2 56 (76.71%) SQL
3 16 (21.92%) Java
4 6 (8.22%) Bash
4 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.22%) PL/SQL
4 6 (8.22%) Scala
5 3 (4.11%) Bicep
5 3 (4.11%) Groovy
6 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.37%) COBOL
7 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.37%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 43 (58.90%) Security Cleared
2 37 (50.68%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.70%) AWS Certification
4 9 (12.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (10.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (35.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.85%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) DICOM
3 1 (1.37%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (24.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Grafana
2 6 (8.22%) Kibana
3 2 (2.74%) Ansible
4 1 (1.37%) Control-M
4 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (31.51%) Informatica
2 10 (13.70%) Oracle
3 9 (12.33%) Databricks
4 6 (8.22%) Splunk
5 5 (6.85%) Denodo
5 5 (6.85%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.74%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.37%) Tenable
7 1 (1.37%) Teradata