Amazon OpenSearch Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon OpenSearch Service
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon OpenSearch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon OpenSearch over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 383 446
Rank change year-on-year +63 +63 +66
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 14 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.053% 0.038%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 9
10th Percentile £450 £426 £453
25th Percentile £513 £468 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £502 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +0.40% -32.20%
75th Percentile £780 £520 £525
90th Percentile - £534 £538
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £516
% change year-on-year +2.94% -1.16% -30.03%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,080 5,392 7,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.94% 26.05% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,889 3,814 5,914
10th Percentile £237 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £373 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 257 227
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.54 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon OpenSearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK excluding London

Amazon OpenSearch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK excluding London

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK excluding London

Amazon OpenSearch
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Scotland +8 8 £525 +4.58%
North of England - 5 £780 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 £780 -
Midlands - 1 £525 - 2
North East - 1 £400 -
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
Amazon OpenSearch
UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) Serverless
3 8 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 7 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 6 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (42.86%) AWS CodeBuild
5 6 (42.86%) AWS Fargate
5 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
6 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (35.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (35.71%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 5 (35.71%) Route 53
7 4 (28.57%) Collibra
7 4 (28.57%) PaaS
7 4 (28.57%) SaaS
8 2 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 2 (14.29%) InfluxDB
4 1 (7.14%) Flink
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (28.57%) Banking
1 4 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Data Architect
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) AWS CDK
2 4 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (28.57%) React
3 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Loki
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 5 (35.71%) Kanban
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 4 (28.57%) Monte Carlo Method
4 4 (28.57%) Observability
4 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (21.43%) Human-Centred Design
5 3 (21.43%) Inclusive Design
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) LLM
7 1 (7.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Bash
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) Groovy
3 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) OCP
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Grafana
3 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
4 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 3 (21.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Imperva
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle