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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 469 477
Rank change year-on-year -82 +8 +122
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 42 20 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.083% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.22% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 37
10th Percentile £368 £416 £362
25th Percentile £440 £457 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £524 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +2.75% -15.00%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £606
90th Percentile £584 £621 £738
UK median daily rate £469 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -10.67% +2.94% -18.40%
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 14,423 9,023 11,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.26% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,870 6,247 8,432
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 200 326
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £15.92
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -33.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.56 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.38 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.09% +29.90% -38.94%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -41 29 £525 -8.70% 3
West Midlands -54 4 £464 -15.64% 2
Midlands -56 4 £464 +1.09% 2
North of England -68 4 £505 +6.32% 8
North East -23 2 £409 - 5
North West -37 2 £513 +7.89% 2
South East - 1 £459 -
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 13 (30.95%) Apache Spark
2 11 (26.19%) SAS
3 9 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (14.29%) Confluence
5 3 (7.14%) Apache
6 2 (4.76%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 31 (73.81%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (64.29%) Serverless
5 12 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (19.05%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
8 6 (14.29%) dbt
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon MSK
9 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
11 3 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) 4G
1 1 (2.38%) 5G
1 1 (2.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (52.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (42.86%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (30.95%) Big Data
4 13 (30.95%) Data Lake
5 11 (26.19%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (16.67%) DynamoDB
7 6 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (14.29%) Base SAS
7 6 (14.29%) MongoDB
7 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
7 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (11.90%) Apache Hudi
8 5 (11.90%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (11.90%) Metadata
8 5 (11.90%) Pentaho
8 5 (11.90%) Power BI
8 5 (11.90%) Presto
8 5 (11.90%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) GitLab
2 7 (16.67%) Git
3 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) Snyk
5 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Banking
4 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Local Government
6 1 (2.38%) Billing
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Data Engineer
2 15 (35.71%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) AWS Data Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Architect
4 7 (16.67%) Lead
5 6 (14.29%) Scala Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior
6 5 (11.90%) Data Architect
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Platform Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Gen AI Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Architect
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Data Architect
9 1 (2.38%) Kafka Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) PySpark
2 8 (19.05%) HTML
3 6 (14.29%) CSS
3 6 (14.29%) Play Framework
4 5 (11.90%) Kafka
5 3 (7.14%) RESTful
6 2 (4.76%) Keras
6 2 (4.76%) LangChain
6 2 (4.76%) Matplotlib
6 2 (4.76%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (4.76%) NLTK
6 2 (4.76%) Node.js
6 2 (4.76%) NumPy
6 2 (4.76%) Pandas
6 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
6 2 (4.76%) scikit-learn
6 2 (4.76%) SciPy
6 2 (4.76%) Seaborn
6 2 (4.76%) TensorFlow
6 2 (4.76%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.38%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
1 5 (11.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) CI/CD
2 21 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 20 (47.62%) Agile
3 20 (47.62%) Data Engineering
3 20 (47.62%) ETL
4 18 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (35.71%) Analytics
6 15 (35.71%) DevOps
7 12 (28.57%) Scrum
8 10 (23.81%) Clean Code
8 10 (23.81%) Migration
9 9 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (19.05%) Machine Learning
11 7 (16.67%) AI
11 7 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
11 7 (16.67%) Observability
11 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (92.86%) Python
2 26 (61.90%) SQL
3 14 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.29%) SAS Macro
4 6 (14.29%) Scala
5 5 (11.90%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) Ada
6 2 (4.76%) Bicep
6 2 (4.76%) C#
6 2 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) NIST
3 2 (4.76%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) DICOM
4 1 (2.38%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (64.29%) Terraform
2 11 (26.19%) Grafana
3 6 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Databricks
2 5 (11.90%) Denodo
2 5 (11.90%) Dynatrace
2 5 (11.90%) Informatica
2 5 (11.90%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) Splunk
3 4 (9.52%) OpenAI
4 3 (7.14%) Qualys
4 3 (7.14%) Tenable
5 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.38%) StreamSets