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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 444 501
Rank change year-on-year -69 +57 +137
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 41 33 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.34% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 39
10th Percentile £416 £400 £340
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £523 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +2.55% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £675 £613 £701
UK median daily rate £475 £523 £510
% change year-on-year -9.18% +2.55% -15.00%

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 12,911 9,595 12,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 37.42% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 6,420 9,080
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 140 308
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.18 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.58% -11.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.19 £48.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.93 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -23 27 £490 +3.16% 11
Midlands -53 5 £433 -5.77% 1
East of England - 4 - -
West Midlands -46 3 £413 -25.00%
East Midlands -23 2 £446 +8.05% 1
North of England -63 2 £538 -11.89% 5
North East -16 1 £550 -9.84%
North West - 1 £525 - 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 8 (19.51%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (17.07%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.88%) Apache
3 2 (4.88%) SAS
4 1 (2.44%) Confluence
4 1 (2.44%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (82.93%) Amazon S3
3 31 (75.61%) AWS Lambda
3 31 (75.61%) Serverless
4 13 (31.71%) Amazon Kinesis
5 12 (29.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (26.83%) Snowflake
7 10 (24.39%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (19.51%) dbt
9 5 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (12.20%) Azure
10 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
11 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (7.32%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
11 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
12 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (4.88%) Datadog
12 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) 4G
1 1 (2.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (65.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 13 (31.71%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (21.95%) Data Lake
5 7 (17.07%) Relational Database
6 6 (14.63%) Apache Iceberg
6 6 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (14.63%) Tableau
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (12.20%) Redshift Spectrum
8 4 (9.76%) Power BI
8 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (7.32%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (7.32%) Metadata
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (4.88%) Base SAS
10 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
10 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
10 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
10 2 (4.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) Snyk
General
1 18 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 15 (36.59%) Finance
3 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.88%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Billing
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Architect
1 16 (39.02%) Data Engineer
2 14 (34.15%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (24.39%) AWS Data Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) AWS Architect
5 5 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.76%) AWS Data Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Lead
6 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) Principal Data Architect
9 1 (2.44%) Python Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) PySpark
2 6 (14.63%) Kafka
3 4 (9.76%) Node.js
4 3 (7.32%) AWS CDK
4 3 (7.32%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.88%) HTML
5 2 (4.88%) Keras
5 2 (4.88%) LangChain
5 2 (4.88%) Matplotlib
5 2 (4.88%) NLTK
5 2 (4.88%) NumPy
5 2 (4.88%) Pandas
5 2 (4.88%) Plotly
5 2 (4.88%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.88%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.88%) SciPy
5 2 (4.88%) Seaborn
5 2 (4.88%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.88%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) SCADA
3 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) Data Modelling
2 24 (58.54%) ETL
3 21 (51.22%) Data Engineering
4 18 (43.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (41.46%) Analytics
5 17 (41.46%) CI/CD
6 16 (39.02%) Data Architecture
6 16 (39.02%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (31.71%) Data Governance
8 12 (29.27%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (21.95%) Data Security
11 8 (19.51%) Data Science
11 8 (19.51%) Migration
11 8 (19.51%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (19.51%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (17.07%) Machine Learning
12 7 (17.07%) Visualisation
13 6 (14.63%) DevOps
13 6 (14.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 35 (85.37%) Python
2 18 (43.90%) SQL
3 7 (17.07%) Java
4 5 (12.20%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) Ada
5 2 (4.88%) C#
5 2 (4.88%) C++
5 2 (4.88%) R
5 2 (4.88%) SAS Macro
6 1 (2.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) AWS Certification
2 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) Degree
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) Data Quality
2 7 (17.07%) GDPR
3 5 (12.20%) NIST
4 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
4 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (7.32%) QA
5 1 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (46.34%) Terraform
2 3 (7.32%) Ansible
2 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Databricks
2 3 (7.32%) Avaloq
2 3 (7.32%) StreamSets
3 2 (4.88%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.88%) Qualys
3 2 (4.88%) Tenable
4 1 (2.44%) Foundry
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Palantir
4 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow