Amazon OpenSearch Contracts

Amazon OpenSearch Service
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 547 676
Rank change year-on-year +49 +129 +138
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 23 20 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.047% 0.032%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.14% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 15
10th Percentile £450 £446 £369
25th Percentile £463 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £502 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% +0.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £560 £527 £613
90th Percentile £780 £539 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £502 £488
% change year-on-year +5.08% +2.97% -7.14%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,018 13,960 20,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.75% 32.48% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,505 9,921 14,764
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £619 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 345 331
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.46 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -43.53% +69.64%
75th Percentile £46.30 £42.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.50 £69.80 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £17.80 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.26% -35.27% +40.13%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon OpenSearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch.

Daily rate trend for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
UK excluding London +58 15 £528 +5.08% 476
England +58 13 £513 +7.89% 477
Scotland +1 8 £525 +4.58% 29
Work from Home +32 6 £488 -2.89% 423
North of England - 6 £780 - 100
London +43 5 £488 +2.63% 66
Yorkshire - 5 £780 - 42
Midlands - 1 £525 - 94
North East - 1 £400 - 12
West Midlands - 1 £525 - 52

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Serverless
3 10 (43.48%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (39.13%) Amazon S3
5 8 (34.78%) AWS CodePipeline
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (30.43%) AWS CodeBuild
6 7 (30.43%) AWS Fargate
6 7 (30.43%) OpenShift
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 6 (26.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 6 (26.09%) Route 53
8 4 (17.39%) Collibra
8 4 (17.39%) PaaS
8 4 (17.39%) SaaS
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) Network Security
2 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (8.70%) SNMP
2 2 (8.70%) SSH
2 2 (8.70%) Telnet
2 2 (8.70%) Wireshark
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) DSLAM
3 1 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.04%) InfluxDB
2 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Redis
3 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Flink
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) Artifactory
3 4 (17.39%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Fibre Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) AWS CDK
2 4 (17.39%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (17.39%) React
3 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.70%) JSON
4 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) Node.js
4 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 2 (8.70%) XML
5 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.35%) CSS
5 1 (4.35%) Django
5 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) Loki
5 1 (4.35%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
1 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Kanban
3 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) Observability
4 6 (26.09%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
6 4 (17.39%) Monte Carlo Method
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (13.04%) Human-Centred Design
7 3 (13.04%) Inclusive Design
7 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
7 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Validation
8 2 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
8 2 (8.70%) Event Correlation
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 7 (30.43%) Bash
4 5 (21.74%) Java
5 4 (17.39%) Groovy
5 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 3 (13.04%) SQL
7 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) OCP
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) FreeRADIUS
1 2 (8.70%) iptables
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Grafana
3 6 (26.09%) Ansible
3 6 (26.09%) Prometheus
4 4 (17.39%) Kibana
5 3 (13.04%) Terraform
6 2 (8.70%) Cacti
6 2 (8.70%) Nagios
6 2 (8.70%) Netcool
6 2 (8.70%) Proxmox
6 2 (8.70%) Puppet
6 2 (8.70%) ZABBIX
7 1 (4.35%) Graylog
7 1 (4.35%) logstash
7 1 (4.35%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Splunk
2 3 (13.04%) Imperva
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Nokia
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Huawei
4 1 (4.35%) Juniper
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto