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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 476 493
Rank change year-on-year -67 +17 +96
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 69 20 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.077% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.21% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 10 43
10th Percentile £314 £399 £410
25th Percentile £407 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% -14.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £471 £603
90th Percentile £594 £535 £738
UK median daily rate £446 £451 £510
% change year-on-year -1.05% -11.67% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 - -

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 15,349 9,723 12,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.65% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,340 6,564 8,661
10th Percentile £325 £311 £308
25th Percentile £415 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 251 332
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.01
25th Percentile £23.17 £17.57 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.15% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.09% +26.18% -37.14%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -38 45 £449 -14.48% 15
North of England -62 13 £425 -10.53% 6
North East - 11 £413 - 3
Midlands -47 5 £469 +4.11% 2
West Midlands - 5 £469 - 1
North West -49 2 £513 +7.89% 3
East of England -20 1 - -
South East -60 1 £459 +14.18% 5
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 21 (30.43%) Apache Spark
2 20 (28.99%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (20.29%) Apache
3 14 (20.29%) Confluence
4 12 (17.39%) SAS
5 9 (13.04%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (95.65%) AWS
2 59 (85.51%) Amazon S3
3 50 (72.46%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (66.67%) Serverless
5 24 (34.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (24.64%) Power Platform
7 14 (20.29%) Azure
8 13 (18.84%) Amazon Kinesis
8 13 (18.84%) dbt
9 12 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (14.49%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (10.14%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (8.70%) Amazon Bedrock
14 5 (7.25%) Azure AI
14 5 (7.25%) Textract
15 4 (5.80%) Amazon MSK
15 4 (5.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) 4G
1 1 (1.45%) 5G
1 1 (1.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (55.07%) Amazon Athena
2 31 (44.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (31.88%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (24.64%) Power BI
5 14 (20.29%) Big Data
6 12 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (17.39%) Data Lake
7 11 (15.94%) DynamoDB
8 6 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (8.70%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (8.70%) Base SAS
8 6 (8.70%) Metadata
8 6 (8.70%) MongoDB
8 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
8 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (7.25%) Apache Hudi
9 5 (7.25%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (7.25%) Pentaho
9 5 (7.25%) Presto
9 5 (7.25%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 29 (42.03%) GitLab
2 20 (28.99%) Git
3 14 (20.29%) JIRA
4 6 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.90%) MLflow
5 2 (2.90%) Snyk
General
1 17 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 14 (20.29%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.04%) Finance
5 7 (10.14%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Local Government
7 2 (2.90%) Publishing
8 1 (1.45%) Billing
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (53.62%) Data Engineer
2 19 (27.54%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (18.84%) AWS Data Engineer
3 13 (18.84%) Senior
4 12 (17.39%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (14.49%) Architect
6 9 (13.04%) Lead
7 6 (8.70%) Informatica Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Scala Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Test Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) AWS Architect
10 3 (4.35%) Platform Architect
11 2 (2.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (2.90%) Lead Data Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Python Developer
11 2 (2.90%) Security Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (49.28%) PySpark
2 6 (8.70%) CSS
2 6 (8.70%) HTML
2 6 (8.70%) Play Framework
3 4 (5.80%) Kafka
4 3 (4.35%) RESTful
5 1 (1.45%) FHIR
5 1 (1.45%) REST
5 1 (1.45%) Spring
5 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.70%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (5.80%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) PACS
6 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (79.71%) CI/CD
2 40 (57.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (55.07%) Data Engineering
4 34 (49.28%) Agile
5 33 (47.83%) Data Modelling
5 33 (47.83%) ETL
6 31 (44.93%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (42.03%) DevOps
8 26 (37.68%) Analytics
9 18 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (26.09%) Test Automation
10 16 (23.19%) AI
11 15 (21.74%) Machine Learning
11 15 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (20.29%) Migration
13 13 (18.84%) Data Governance
13 13 (18.84%) Event-Driven
14 12 (17.39%) Containerisation
14 12 (17.39%) Scrum
14 12 (17.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 63 (91.30%) Python
2 48 (69.57%) SQL
3 14 (20.29%) Java
4 8 (11.59%) Bash
5 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.70%) SAS Macro
5 6 (8.70%) Scala
6 3 (4.35%) Bicep
7 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (50.72%) Security Cleared
2 29 (42.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.94%) AWS Certification
4 7 (10.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 7 (10.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.90%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.90%) Degree
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.90%) NIST
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) DICOM
3 1 (1.45%) HL7
System Software
1 17 (24.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (69.57%) Terraform
2 11 (15.94%) Grafana
3 6 (8.70%) Kibana
4 1 (1.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (26.09%) Informatica
2 9 (13.04%) Databricks
3 5 (7.25%) Denodo
3 5 (7.25%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.25%) Oracle
3 5 (7.25%) Splunk
4 2 (2.90%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.90%) Qualys
4 2 (2.90%) Tenable
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) StreamSets