Amazon OpenSearch Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Amazon OpenSearch Service
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.059% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 693 694 795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.65% 32.03% 29.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 462 556
10th Percentile £250 £363 £232
25th Percentile £400 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £663 £660 £725
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 20
10th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £17.21
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.13 £19.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +31.58% +53.81%
75th Percentile £32.18 £60.72 £57.84
90th Percentile £42.02 £64.73 £73.83
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -55.72% +57.41% +28.57%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon OpenSearch
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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 - -
Amazon OpenSearch
South East

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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