Amazon OpenSearch Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon OpenSearch Service
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Amazon OpenSearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 113 -
Rank change year-on-year -57 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.072% 0.052% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £438 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £553 £538 -
90th Percentile £581 - -
England median daily rate £521 £513 £494
% change year-on-year +1.66% +3.80% -29.46%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,230 591 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.43% 30.88% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 418 520
10th Percentile £300 £200 £200
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £595
90th Percentile £650 £691 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 22
10th Percentile £13.16 £14.82 -
25th Percentile £13.47 £15.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.91 £18.00 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.81% -24.21% +25.93%
75th Percentile £27.50 £19.87 £27.25
90th Percentile £67.84 £26.79 £50.04
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.62%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon OpenSearch

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon OpenSearch in the Midlands

Amazon OpenSearch
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -56 3 £488 -7.14% 2
Amazon OpenSearch
England

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk