Amazon EMR Job Trends

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Amazon EMR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 661 669
Rank change year-on-year +33 +8 +157
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EMR 25 38 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.071% 0.093%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 14
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £57,275
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -18.18%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £84,500 - £82,425
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -32.26% +14.81% -6.90%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Amazon EMR falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,529 19,355 22,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.22% 36.17% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 11,374 18,418
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Amazon EMR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon EMR job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon EMR
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon EMR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EMR over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EMR in the UK

Amazon EMR
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EMR within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +57 25 £75,000 -3.23% 11
London +64 19 £75,000 -18.92% 5
Work from Home +63 9 £52,500 -27.84% 3
UK excluding London +37 4 £52,500 -32.26% 6
North West +17 3 £50,000 +5.26% 2
North of England +6 3 £50,000 +5.26% 2
South East +35 1 £80,000 -11.11% 2

Amazon EMR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 18 (72.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (24.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (52.00%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (52.00%) Serverless
3 12 (48.00%) Azure
3 12 (48.00%) GCP
4 10 (40.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) iPaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (64.00%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (52.00%) Big Data
2 13 (52.00%) DynamoDB
2 13 (52.00%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (48.00%) Relational Database
3 12 (48.00%) SQL Server
4 11 (44.00%) Hadoop
5 10 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (40.00%) DataStage
5 10 (40.00%) MongoDB
5 10 (40.00%) MySQL
5 10 (40.00%) Neo4j
5 10 (40.00%) NoSQL
5 10 (40.00%) Pentaho
5 10 (40.00%) RDBMS
6 7 (28.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (28.00%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (16.00%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (16.00%) Data Lake
8 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.00%) Deequ
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Gradle
General
1 16 (64.00%) Finance
2 13 (52.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (40.00%) Law
4 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Health
5 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Data Engineer
2 10 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Support Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) PySpark
2 3 (12.00%) pytest
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) Drools
4 1 (4.00%) FHIR
4 1 (4.00%) Great Expectations
4 1 (4.00%) Middleware
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 10 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 19 (76.00%) Data Engineering
3 18 (72.00%) Analytics
4 17 (68.00%) Agile
4 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (68.00%) ETL
5 15 (60.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 14 (56.00%) Data Governance
6 14 (56.00%) Data Science
7 13 (52.00%) Software Engineering
8 12 (48.00%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (48.00%) Data Modelling
9 10 (40.00%) Benchmarking
9 10 (40.00%) Data Integration
9 10 (40.00%) Data Security
9 10 (40.00%) Information Security
9 10 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
9 10 (40.00%) Release Management
9 10 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) Python
2 16 (64.00%) SQL
3 13 (52.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) DICOM
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.00%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Oracle
2 10 (40.00%) Informatica
2 10 (40.00%) Talend
3 1 (4.00%) Cerner
3 1 (4.00%) InterSystems
3 1 (4.00%) MEDITECH