Amazon OpenSearch Contract Job Trends in the North West

Amazon OpenSearch Service
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Amazon OpenSearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -26.92%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,053 642 887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.74% 32.44% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 492 625
10th Percentile £313 £311 £282
25th Percentile £400 £393 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -3.65% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £658 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 19 61
10th Percentile £25.38 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £19.85 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +79.02% -28.72%
75th Percentile £77.50 £56.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.01 £21.46
% change year-on-year +70.30% +16.54% -38.69%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend in the North West

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Amazon OpenSearch
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Manchester - 4 £650 - 3
Amazon OpenSearch
England

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) Pinecone
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Faiss
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Rust
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks