Amazon EMR Contracts

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon EMR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EMR over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 514 652
Rank change year-on-year +27 +138 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 31 68 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.16% 0.088%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.49% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 48 39
10th Percentile £400 £362 £500
25th Percentile £450 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £510 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -21.54% +10.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £703
90th Percentile £603 £711 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £510 £650
% change year-on-year -10.00% -21.54% +23.81%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,044 13,936 21,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.49% 32.41% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,632 9,908 15,402
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 345 346
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -38.94% +55.90%
75th Percentile £46.30 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £64.45 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £17.71 £24.62
% change year-on-year +20.81% -28.09% +23.10%

Amazon EMR
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EMR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EMR in the UK

Amazon EMR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EMR.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EMR in the UK

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EMR over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EMR in the UK

Amazon EMR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EMR.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EMR in the UK

Amazon EMR
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 May 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
England +47 22 £491 -3.73% 61
London +12 16 £488 -2.50% 50
Work from Home +35 10 £491 -6.48% 24
UK excluding London +47 9 £459 -10.00% 17
Scotland +11 4 - - 1
Midlands - 3 £459 - 1
North of England +12 2 - - 2
North East - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £413 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Amazon EMR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (48.39%) Apache Spark
2 5 (16.13%) Apache
2 5 (16.13%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (9.68%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (93.55%) Amazon S3
3 17 (54.84%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (48.39%) Serverless
5 12 (38.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (32.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 8 (25.81%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (25.81%) Azure
8 6 (19.35%) dbt
8 6 (19.35%) Snowflake
9 5 (16.13%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (16.13%) GitHub
9 5 (16.13%) IaaS
9 5 (16.13%) SaaS
10 4 (12.90%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (12.90%) GCP
10 4 (12.90%) OpenShift
10 4 (12.90%) PaaS
11 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (6.45%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (54.84%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (35.48%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (29.03%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (22.58%) Big Data
4 7 (22.58%) NoSQL
5 6 (19.35%) Data Lake
5 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (16.13%) Apache Hive
6 5 (16.13%) Hadoop
6 5 (16.13%) Relational Database
7 4 (12.90%) Metadata
7 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
8 3 (9.68%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (9.68%) PowerCenter
9 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
9 2 (6.45%) Impala
9 2 (6.45%) MySQL
9 2 (6.45%) Spotfire
9 2 (6.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) GitLab
2 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) Artifactory
3 4 (12.90%) Cucumber
3 4 (12.90%) git-flow
3 4 (12.90%) Gradle
4 2 (6.45%) Git
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Data Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Architect
3 6 (19.35%) AWS Data Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Data Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Python Data Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Data Administrator
8 1 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (51.61%) Kafka
2 7 (22.58%) PySpark
2 7 (22.58%) Spring
2 7 (22.58%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.90%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.23%) FHIR
4 1 (3.23%) Pandas
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) CI/CD
2 17 (54.84%) Data Modelling
3 16 (51.61%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (51.61%) ETL
4 13 (41.94%) Analytics
5 12 (38.71%) Data Integration
6 10 (32.26%) Data Engineering
7 8 (25.81%) Computer Science
7 8 (25.81%) Data Architecture
7 8 (25.81%) Data Science
7 8 (25.81%) Data Security
7 8 (25.81%) DevOps
7 8 (25.81%) High Availability
7 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (22.58%) Agile
8 7 (22.58%) Data Governance
9 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
9 6 (19.35%) Data Migration
9 6 (19.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 16 (51.61%) SQL
3 14 (45.16%) Java
4 6 (19.35%) Scala
5 4 (12.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
1 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
2 4 (12.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.90%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.45%) GDPR
4 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Terraform
2 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.90%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Informatica
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
2 4 (12.90%) Teradata
3 3 (9.68%) Cloudera
3 3 (9.68%) Talend
4 2 (6.45%) Google
4 2 (6.45%) StreamSets
4 2 (6.45%) TSYS
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft