Amazon OpenSearch Contracts

Amazon OpenSearch Service
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon OpenSearch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon OpenSearch over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 701 835
Rank change year-on-year +128 +134 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 25 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.030% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.082% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 9
10th Percentile £429 £474 £504
25th Percentile £463 £488 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -30.73% -
75th Percentile £533 £700 £775
90th Percentile £540 £710 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £502 £500 £750
% change year-on-year +0.40% -33.33% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon OpenSearch is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +136 15 £502 -6.12% 2
England +133 13 £494 -29.46% 6
London +108 13 £494 -30.46% 4
UK excluding London +67 11 £502 +0.40% 5
Scotland +36 11 £502 +1.67% 3

Amazon OpenSearch
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 6 (24.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) nginx
2 3 (12.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) AWS
2 20 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 15 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (52.00%) Serverless
5 11 (44.00%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (44.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (40.00%) OpenShift
7 6 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
8 5 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (16.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (12.00%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (12.00%) AWS CodeCommit
10 3 (12.00%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (8.00%) Route 53
12 1 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (4.00%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
1 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (56.00%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (36.00%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (28.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (24.00%) InfluxDB
6 5 (20.00%) Informix
6 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 1 (4.00%) Redis
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Artifactory
2 6 (24.00%) GitLab
2 6 (24.00%) JIRA
2 6 (24.00%) JUnit
2 6 (24.00%) Maven
2 6 (24.00%) Mockito
2 6 (24.00%) TestNG
3 5 (20.00%) EasyMock
4 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (16.00%) Selenium
5 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (12.00%) Postman
5 3 (12.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.00%) Gatling
6 1 (4.00%) Git
6 1 (4.00%) JMeter
6 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior
6 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Database Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Backend Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Head of QA
8 1 (4.00%) Head of Test
8 1 (4.00%) Lead
8 1 (4.00%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) AWS CDK
1 11 (44.00%) REST
1 11 (44.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (36.00%) Spring
3 6 (24.00%) JAX-RS
3 6 (24.00%) WireMock
4 5 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 5 (20.00%) JPA
4 5 (20.00%) Spring Security
5 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (12.00%) Gherkin
5 3 (12.00%) Guice
5 3 (12.00%) Kafka
5 3 (12.00%) Mustache
5 3 (12.00%) OpenAPI
5 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (12.00%) Swagger
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js
6 1 (4.00%) Playwright
6 1 (4.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Replication
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
1 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (48.00%) Scrum
3 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) High Availability
4 9 (36.00%) Observability
5 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (28.00%) Kanban
6 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (24.00%) MVC
8 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (20.00%) Microservices
9 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
9 4 (16.00%) Software Delivery
10 3 (12.00%) Auto-Scaling
10 3 (12.00%) Community of Practice
10 3 (12.00%) Front End Development
10 3 (12.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (20.00%) Groovy
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Ansible
2 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (48.00%) Grafana
4 10 (40.00%) Terraform
5 6 (24.00%) Kibana
6 3 (12.00%) Kustomize
6 3 (12.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) Commvault
4 1 (4.00%) Finsemble