Hybrid/Remote Amazon EMR Contract Job Trends

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon EMR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 302 359
Rank change year-on-year +2 +57 +142
Contract jobs citing Amazon EMR 17 15 22
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.33% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 18
10th Percentile £463 £400 £476
25th Percentile £522 £502 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% -0.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £543 £669
90th Percentile - £581 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.79%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,377 4,538 6,539
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.78% 38.86% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 3,046 4,738
10th Percentile £331 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 80
10th Percentile £17.80 £20.86 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - -24.10% +39.29%
75th Percentile £66.07 £64.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £78.67 £81.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.97% +16.00% +11.11%

Amazon EMR
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EMR and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EMR job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EMR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EMR over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Amazon EMR daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon EMR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 7 (41.18%) Apache Spark
2 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (17.65%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (82.35%) Amazon S3
3 11 (64.71%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (64.71%) Serverless
4 8 (47.06%) AWS Step Functions
5 7 (41.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (35.29%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (29.41%) Snowflake
8 4 (23.53%) GCP
9 3 (17.65%) Azure
9 3 (17.65%) Datadog
9 3 (17.65%) GitHub
9 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
10 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (11.76%) Route 53
10 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (35.29%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (35.29%) Relational Database
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (29.41%) Apache Iceberg
3 5 (29.41%) Data Lake
3 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (23.53%) BigQuery
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
5 3 (17.65%) Power BI
5 3 (17.65%) Redshift Spectrum
5 3 (17.65%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (17.65%) Tableau
6 2 (11.76%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (11.76%) Delta Lake
6 2 (11.76%) Metadata
6 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
6 2 (11.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Gradle
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Maven
2 2 (11.76%) SonarLint
2 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (11.76%) Legal
5 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Data Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) AWS Data Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Architect
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Data Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Java Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) PySpark
2 3 (17.65%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
3 2 (11.76%) Celery
3 2 (11.76%) Dropwizard
3 2 (11.76%) J2EE
3 2 (11.76%) JWT
3 2 (11.76%) Micronaut
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Beam
4 1 (5.88%) Pandas
4 1 (5.88%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) N-Tier
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (52.94%) Data Modelling
3 9 (52.94%) ETL
4 8 (47.06%) Analytics
4 8 (47.06%) Data Science
5 7 (41.18%) Data Engineering
6 6 (35.29%) Data Governance
6 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (29.41%) Agile
7 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (29.41%) Data Architecture
7 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (23.53%) AI
8 4 (23.53%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (23.53%) Data Security
8 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
8 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
8 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) Scala
5 1 (5.88%) HiveQL
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) GDPR
2 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (11.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.88%) NCSC
4 1 (5.88%) NIST
4 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Gigya
3 1 (5.88%) Google