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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.067% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -26.92%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,654 872 1,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.54% 29.98% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 591 901
10th Percentile £284 £250 £263
25th Percentile £406 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 33 53
10th Percentile £15.88 £15.59 £16.54
25th Percentile £26.47 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% +14.61% +4.85%
75th Percentile £82.25 £47.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £104.00 £74.75 £61.58
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 27 May 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
Thames Valley - 2 - - 2
Berkshire - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
Sussex - 1 £600 -
West Sussex - 1 £600 -
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 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) JWT
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Celery
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (25.00%) OpenID
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) OCP
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Fluentd
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Arista
1 1 (25.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Mavenir
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware