Amazon OpenSearch Job Trends in Durham

Amazon OpenSearch Service
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Amazon OpenSearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 35 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 2 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 0.83% 1.52% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.00% 7.32% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 -
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
North East median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 -
% change year-on-year +6.48% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Durham

Amazon OpenSearch falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 50 41 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 20.75% 20.81% 41.16%
Number of salaries quoted 23 21 96
10th Percentile - £30,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,430 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% +23.81% +20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,145 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £79,600 £70,000
North East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.44%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon OpenSearch relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend in Durham

Amazon OpenSearch
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Amazon OpenSearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Amazon OpenSearch

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch within the Durham region over the 6 months to 7 February 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Darlington +6 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Amazon OpenSearch
North East

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 2 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google