Amazon EMR Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon EMR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 346 368
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 +118
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 29 21 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.38% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 26
10th Percentile £382 £400 £350
25th Percentile £439 £422 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -11.63% -5.70%
75th Percentile £563 £570 £688
90th Percentile £640 £591 £721
England median daily rate £490 £523 £510
% change year-on-year -6.31% +2.55% -10.53%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,964 5,600 6,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.60% 37.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,783 3,783 4,972
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 52 79
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.54 £21.63
Median hourly rate £33.75 £32.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% +10.20% -2.56%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.13 £62.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.15% -14.16%

Amazon EMR
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EMR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Amazon EMR job vacancy trend in London

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EMR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EMR in London over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EMR in London

Amazon EMR
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EMR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 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
East London - 1 £449 -
Amazon EMR
England

Amazon EMR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (34.48%) Apache Spark
2 7 (24.14%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (17.24%) SAS
4 2 (6.90%) Apache
5 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (75.86%) Amazon S3
2 22 (75.86%) AWS Lambda
2 22 (75.86%) Serverless
3 12 (41.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (31.03%) AWS Step Functions
5 8 (27.59%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (20.69%) Snowflake
7 5 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (13.79%) dbt
8 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) 4G
1 1 (3.45%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (55.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (37.93%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (27.59%) Data Lake
5 6 (20.69%) Apache Iceberg
5 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (17.24%) Base SAS
6 5 (17.24%) Big Data
6 5 (17.24%) Redshift Spectrum
6 5 (17.24%) Tableau
7 4 (13.79%) Power BI
7 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
7 4 (13.79%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (10.34%) Data Mart
9 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
9 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
9 2 (6.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Snyk
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (55.17%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Private Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Billing
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (34.48%) Data Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Architect
3 6 (20.69%) AWS Data Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Lead
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Architect
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Data Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Principal Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Principal Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Principal Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) PySpark
2 7 (24.14%) Kafka
3 4 (13.79%) Node.js
4 3 (10.34%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.90%) HTML
5 2 (6.90%) Keras
5 2 (6.90%) LangChain
5 2 (6.90%) LangGraph
5 2 (6.90%) Matplotlib
5 2 (6.90%) NLTK
5 2 (6.90%) NumPy
5 2 (6.90%) Pandas
5 2 (6.90%) Plotly
5 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
5 2 (6.90%) scikit-learn
5 2 (6.90%) SciPy
5 2 (6.90%) Seaborn
5 2 (6.90%) TensorFlow
5 2 (6.90%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) AI Agents
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.45%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Data Modelling
2 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
3 16 (55.17%) Data Engineering
3 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (51.72%) Analytics
4 15 (51.72%) ETL
5 13 (44.83%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (37.93%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (27.59%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (24.14%) Data Architecture
8 7 (24.14%) Data Governance
8 7 (24.14%) DevOps
9 6 (20.69%) Clean Code
9 6 (20.69%) Migration
9 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (20.69%) Validation
9 6 (20.69%) Visualisation
10 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security
10 5 (17.24%) Data Ingestion
10 5 (17.24%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 27 (93.10%) Python
2 15 (51.72%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) Bash
3 5 (17.24%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) SAS Macro
4 2 (6.90%) Ada
4 2 (6.90%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) C++
4 2 (6.90%) R
5 1 (3.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) AWS Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.34%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) NIST
2 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
1 2 (6.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Qualys
2 3 (10.34%) Tenable
3 2 (6.90%) Avaloq
3 2 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow