Amazon OpenSearch Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon OpenSearch Service
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon OpenSearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 363 389
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 +167
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 6 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.042% 0.040% 0.085%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.095% 0.097% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile £456 £479 -
25th Percentile £513 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +6.02% -25.89%
75th Percentile £725 £575 £547
90th Percentile - £620 £582
England median daily rate £481 £481 £475
% change year-on-year - +1.32% -32.14%

All Cloud Skills
London

Amazon OpenSearch 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,333 6,197 7,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.02% 41.13% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,327 4,194 5,330
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 43 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -13.85% +19.89%
75th Percentile £50.63 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.67 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend in London

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon OpenSearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon OpenSearch

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon OpenSearch in London

Amazon OpenSearch
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London +1 1 £675 +45.95% 2
Amazon OpenSearch
England

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (83.33%) Serverless
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (33.33%) Slack
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) Pinecone
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Snyk
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 2 (33.33%) Faiss
1 2 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) LangChain
1 2 (33.33%) LangGraph
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) FinOps
3 2 (33.33%) GitOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) LLM
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) Tenable