Amazon EMR Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon EMR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 333 384
Rank change year-on-year -41 +51 +83
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 20 14 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.096% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.31% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 11
10th Percentile £414 - £300
25th Percentile £456 £513 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £583 £610 £513
90th Percentile £595 £642 -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -10.87%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,871 4,553 5,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.15% 31.21% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,086 3,001 4,319
10th Percentile £239 £238 £217
25th Percentile £375 £380 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £661 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 111 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.38 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +15.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -1.05% +6.55% +14.71%

Amazon EMR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon EMR job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EMR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EMR in the UK excluding London

Amazon EMR
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
North of England -46 8 £575 -3.77% 8
North West -15 7 £575 -4.17% 6
Midlands -37 7 £446 -18.86% 10
West Midlands -26 4 £413 -25.00% 5
East of England - 4 - - 7
East Midlands - 3 £460 - 4
Scotland +4 2 £463 -11.90% 3
North East -10 1 £550 -9.84%
Yorkshire -44 1 - - 2
Amazon EMR
UK

Amazon EMR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 13 (65.00%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (65.00%) Serverless
4 6 (30.00%) Azure
4 6 (30.00%) Snowflake
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (25.00%) Apigee
5 5 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (25.00%) Datadog
5 5 (25.00%) GCP
5 5 (25.00%) GitHub
5 5 (25.00%) Loggly
5 5 (25.00%) Route 53
6 4 (20.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (30.00%) RDBMS
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (25.00%) BigQuery
4 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 5 (25.00%) MySQL
4 5 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (25.00%) Redis
5 3 (15.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (10.00%) Data Mart
7 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) Gradle
2 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) Maven
2 5 (25.00%) SonarLint
2 5 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Architect
2 8 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Java Technical Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Snowflake Architect
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 3 (15.00%) Python Data Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Dropwizard
1 5 (25.00%) J2EE
1 5 (25.00%) JWT
1 5 (25.00%) Micronaut
1 5 (25.00%) RESTful
1 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (20.00%) Celery
3 3 (15.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (15.00%) PySpark
4 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (25.00%) N-Tier
2 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) ETL
2 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (35.00%) AI
4 7 (35.00%) Data Architecture
4 7 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 5 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 5 (25.00%) Microservices
6 5 (25.00%) OOP
6 5 (25.00%) OWASP
6 5 (25.00%) TDD
6 5 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Gigya
2 2 (10.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle