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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 444 522
Rank change year-on-year -57 +78 +116
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 42 33 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.34% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 33
10th Percentile £421 £409 £310
25th Percentile £461 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +7.30% -12.28%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £575
90th Percentile £660 £624 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +0.38% +4.60% -16.67%

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 12,305 9,732 12,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.80% 37.02% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,543 6,444 9,195
10th Percentile £304 £313 £274
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 136 289
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.41 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.93 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% +18.46% -3.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £44.71 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.07 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £31.65 £27.43 £23.43
% change year-on-year +15.41% +17.08% +1.19%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -18 23 £525 +10.53% 5
North of England -53 7 £563 -8.85% 5
North West -24 6 £575 -14.81% 3
Midlands -50 5 £433 -21.36% 2
East of England - 4 - - 7
West Midlands -32 3 £413 -25.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £446 - 1
North East -18 1 £550 -9.84% 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 8 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (78.57%) AWS Lambda
2 33 (78.57%) Serverless
3 30 (71.43%) Amazon S3
4 13 (30.95%) Amazon Kinesis
5 12 (28.57%) Snowflake
6 11 (26.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (23.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (21.43%) Azure
9 8 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (19.05%) Datadog
10 6 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (14.29%) dbt
10 6 (14.29%) GCP
10 6 (14.29%) GitHub
11 5 (11.90%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (11.90%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (11.90%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (59.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 13 (30.95%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 11 (26.19%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (23.81%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (21.43%) Data Lake
7 8 (19.05%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (16.67%) RDBMS
9 6 (14.29%) BigQuery
9 6 (14.29%) DynamoDB
9 6 (14.29%) Tableau
10 5 (11.90%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (11.90%) MySQL
10 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
10 5 (11.90%) Redis
11 4 (9.52%) Power BI
11 4 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (7.14%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.29%) Git
3 5 (11.90%) Gradle
3 5 (11.90%) Maven
3 5 (11.90%) SonarLint
3 5 (11.90%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.76%) Snyk
General
1 22 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Finance
3 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Architect
2 14 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 13 (30.95%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) AWS Architect
5 9 (21.43%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Technical Architect
7 5 (11.90%) Java Architect
7 5 (11.90%) Java Technical Architect
7 5 (11.90%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (9.52%) AWS Data Architect
8 4 (9.52%) Data Architect
8 4 (9.52%) Snowflake Architect
9 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
9 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
10 1 (2.38%) Principal Architect
10 1 (2.38%) Principal Data Architect
10 1 (2.38%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Kafka
2 5 (11.90%) Dropwizard
2 5 (11.90%) J2EE
2 5 (11.90%) JWT
2 5 (11.90%) Micronaut
2 5 (11.90%) PySpark
2 5 (11.90%) RESTful
2 5 (11.90%) Spring Boot
3 4 (9.52%) AWS CDK
3 4 (9.52%) Celery
3 4 (9.52%) Node.js
4 3 (7.14%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.76%) Keras
5 2 (4.76%) Pandas
5 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.76%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.76%) Seaborn
5 2 (4.76%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.76%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) N-Tier
2 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) SCADA
4 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.38%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) ETL
2 21 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 18 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (38.10%) Analytics
5 16 (38.10%) Data Architecture
6 15 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (30.95%) Data Governance
7 13 (30.95%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (23.81%) AI
8 10 (23.81%) Data Science
8 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
9 9 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 9 (21.43%) Data Security
9 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (19.05%) Microservices
11 7 (16.67%) Agile
11 7 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (83.33%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) SQL
3 13 (30.95%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) Bash
5 2 (4.76%) Ada
5 2 (4.76%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) C++
5 2 (4.76%) R
6 1 (2.38%) Bicep
6 1 (2.38%) HiveQL
6 1 (2.38%) Scala
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 7 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) Degree
5 2 (4.76%) MCP
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) GDPR
2 7 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 5 (11.90%) NIST
4 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.76%) QA
6 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (50.00%) Terraform
2 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Databricks
2 5 (11.90%) Gigya
3 3 (7.14%) Avaloq
3 3 (7.14%) StreamSets
4 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.76%) Qualys
4 2 (4.76%) Tenable
5 1 (2.38%) Foundry
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) Palantir
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow