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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 458 491
Rank change year-on-year -76 +33 +94
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 63 18 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.073% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.19% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 10 41
10th Percentile £345 £399 £406
25th Percentile £413 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% -14.24% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £471 £606
90th Percentile £591 £535 £738
UK median daily rate £447 £451 £510
% change year-on-year -0.89% -11.67% -15.00%
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 15,046 9,350 12,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.69% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,190 6,358 8,621
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 234 338
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%
75th Percentile £69.60 £38.50 £43.44
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -25 40 £450 -14.29% 5
North of England -59 13 £425 -10.53% 3
North East - 11 £413 - 2
Midlands -53 4 £464 +3.00%
West Midlands - 4 £464 -
North West -35 2 £513 +7.89% 1
South East -58 1 £459 +14.18%
East of England - 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 22 (34.92%) Apache Spark
2 20 (31.75%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (20.63%) Apache
3 13 (20.63%) Confluence
4 12 (19.05%) SAS
5 9 (14.29%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 60 (95.24%) AWS
2 54 (85.71%) Amazon S3
3 45 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (65.08%) Serverless
5 24 (38.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
6 14 (22.22%) Power Platform
7 12 (19.05%) Azure
7 12 (19.05%) dbt
8 11 (17.46%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
10 7 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (7.94%) Azure AI
11 5 (7.94%) Textract
12 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (6.35%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (6.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) 4G
1 1 (1.59%) 5G
1 1 (1.59%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (57.14%) Amazon Athena
2 32 (50.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (25.40%) Big Data
5 14 (22.22%) Data Lake
5 14 (22.22%) Power BI
6 11 (17.46%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (17.46%) DynamoDB
7 6 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (9.52%) Base SAS
7 6 (9.52%) MongoDB
7 6 (9.52%) NoSQL
7 6 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (7.94%) Apache Hudi
8 5 (7.94%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (7.94%) Metadata
8 5 (7.94%) Pentaho
8 5 (7.94%) Presto
8 5 (7.94%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 25 (39.68%) GitLab
2 19 (30.16%) Git
3 13 (20.63%) JIRA
4 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.17%) Snyk
6 1 (1.59%) MLflow
General
1 17 (26.98%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Public Sector
2 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Finance
4 7 (11.11%) Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Local Government
6 2 (3.17%) Publishing
7 1 (1.59%) Billing
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (49.21%) Data Engineer
2 16 (25.40%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (19.05%) Senior
4 11 (17.46%) AWS Data Engineer
4 11 (17.46%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) Architect
6 9 (14.29%) Lead
7 6 (9.52%) Informatica Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Scala Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Data Architect
9 4 (6.35%) Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Test Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) AWS Architect
10 3 (4.76%) Platform Architect
11 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (3.17%) Gen AI Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Python Developer
11 2 (3.17%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (46.03%) PySpark
2 8 (12.70%) HTML
3 6 (9.52%) CSS
3 6 (9.52%) Play Framework
4 4 (6.35%) Kafka
5 3 (4.76%) RESTful
6 2 (3.17%) Keras
6 2 (3.17%) LangChain
6 2 (3.17%) Matplotlib
6 2 (3.17%) NLTK
6 2 (3.17%) Node.js
6 2 (3.17%) NumPy
6 2 (3.17%) Pandas
6 2 (3.17%) Plotly
6 2 (3.17%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.17%) scikit-learn
6 2 (3.17%) SciPy
6 2 (3.17%) Seaborn
6 2 (3.17%) TensorFlow
6 2 (3.17%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 26 (41.27%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.52%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (6.35%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Clustering
6 1 (1.59%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.59%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
1 5 (7.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 35 (55.56%) Data Engineering
2 35 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (50.79%) Agile
3 32 (50.79%) Data Modelling
4 27 (42.86%) DevOps
5 26 (41.27%) ETL
6 25 (39.68%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (38.10%) Analytics
8 17 (26.98%) Machine Learning
9 16 (25.40%) AI
9 16 (25.40%) Test Automation
10 14 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
11 12 (19.05%) Data Analysis
11 12 (19.05%) Event-Driven
11 12 (19.05%) Migration
11 12 (19.05%) Scrum
12 11 (17.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 58 (92.06%) Python
2 46 (73.02%) SQL
3 16 (25.40%) Java
4 7 (11.11%) Bash
5 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.52%) SAS Macro
5 6 (9.52%) Scala
6 2 (3.17%) Ada
6 2 (3.17%) Bicep
6 2 (3.17%) C#
6 2 (3.17%) C++
6 2 (3.17%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (46.03%) Security Cleared
2 23 (36.51%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.87%) AWS Certification
4 7 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 7 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (25.40%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) NIST
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) DICOM
3 1 (1.59%) HL7
System Software
1 17 (26.98%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (68.25%) Terraform
2 11 (17.46%) Grafana
3 6 (9.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) Informatica
2 10 (15.87%) Databricks
3 5 (7.94%) Denodo
3 5 (7.94%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.94%) Oracle
3 5 (7.94%) Splunk
4 4 (6.35%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.17%) Qualys
5 2 (3.17%) Tenable
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.59%) StreamSets