Amazon OpenSearch Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon OpenSearch Service
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon OpenSearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.028% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.088% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £375 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -4.31%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,137 1,177 1,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.80% 26.92% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 796 1,136
10th Percentile £204 £281 £206
25th Percentile £350 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% +3.45%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 49
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.66 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.88 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.72% +57.41% +28.57%
75th Percentile £30.51 £60.83 £56.50
90th Percentile £45.45 £64.73 £72.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +6.06% +46.67%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon OpenSearch
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Thames Valley - 1 - -
Amazon OpenSearch
England

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform