Hybrid/Remote Amazon OpenSearch Contract Job Trends

Amazon OpenSearch Service
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon OpenSearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 313 373
Rank change year-on-year +18 +60 +190
Contract jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 7 19 20
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.072% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.40% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 11
10th Percentile £340 £396 £381
25th Percentile £363 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £488 £516 £536
90th Percentile £630 £528 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,181 4,713 7,488
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 43.00% 38.08% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,835 3,199 5,532
10th Percentile £325 £340 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £644 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 41 109
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.50 £16.14
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.69 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -22.76% +35.71%
75th Percentile £65.25 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £78.75 £87.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +43.64%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon OpenSearch and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon OpenSearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon OpenSearch

Amazon OpenSearch
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon OpenSearch over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Amazon OpenSearch daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (71.43%) Serverless
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (28.57%) SaaS
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (14.29%) Azure
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 1 (14.29%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) InfluxDB
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CDK
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (14.29%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) B2B
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) FinOps
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Fluentd
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) HAProxy
3 1 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Commvault
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat