Amazon OpenSearch Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon OpenSearch Service
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon OpenSearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 336 406
Rank change year-on-year -55 +70 +76
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 8 20 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.14% 0.010%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.44% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 1
10th Percentile £327 £448 -
25th Percentile £335 £483 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £349 £506 £375
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +35.00% -29.04%
75th Percentile £362 £534 £388
90th Percentile £370 £548 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%

All Cloud Computing 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 5,884 4,559 5,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.16% 31.19% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,099 3,006 4,281
10th Percentile £240 £238 £217
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 112 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £14.01
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.86 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.06% +15.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.35 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon OpenSearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon OpenSearch

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 31 December 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 -6 3 - - 3
North of England -47 2 - - 24
East Midlands - 2 £349 -
Midlands - 2 £349 -
North West - 2 - - 18
South East - 1 - - 10
Amazon OpenSearch
UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (25.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) FastAPI
1 3 (37.50%) Flask
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (12.50%) Django
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) pytest
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Equities
1 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) API Development
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) LLM
4 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) AWK
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) KVM
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Argo
3 1 (12.50%) Fluentd
3 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
3 1 (12.50%) Nagios
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Commvault
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk