Amazon OpenSearch Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon OpenSearch Service
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon OpenSearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 528 614
Rank change year-on-year -108 +86 -57
Permanent jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 32 12 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.037% 0.035% 0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.13% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 9
10th Percentile £52,750 £50,000 £54,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £64,109 £64,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £73,801 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year +15.17% +6.48% +10.89%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,967 £74,144
90th Percentile £89,000 £88,625 £74,316
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +3.13% +15.43% +10.89%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,801 9,232 14,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.42% 26.70% 27.96%
Number of salaries quoted 11,823 6,200 8,103
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.81% +2.40%

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon OpenSearch
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon OpenSearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon OpenSearch

Amazon OpenSearch
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK excluding London

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
North of England -36 25 £85,000 +15.17% 18
Yorkshire - 23 £85,000 - 3
South East - 6 £55,000 - 3
North West -23 1 - - 15
North East -71 1 £71,991 -2.45%
South West -75 1 - - 4
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 (6.25%) Apache Solr
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (93.75%) AWS
2 26 (81.25%) GitHub
3 25 (78.13%) Amazon S3
3 25 (78.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 24 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (71.88%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (71.88%) AWS Step Functions
5 23 (71.88%) Serverless
6 22 (68.75%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (62.50%) Datadog
8 19 (59.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (9.38%) Azure
11 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
11 2 (6.25%) SaaS
12 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (71.88%) DynamoDB
2 19 (59.38%) Amazon Athena
2 19 (59.38%) NoSQL
3 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
4 5 (15.63%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (12.50%) DocumentDB
6 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (6.25%) MySQL
8 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) Claude Code
3 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Mocha
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (78.13%) Developer
2 23 (71.88%) Java Developer
3 15 (46.88%) AWS Developer
4 7 (21.88%) Senior
5 6 (18.75%) Senior Developer
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Angular Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Backend Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Lead
9 1 (3.13%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (71.88%) AngularJS
1 23 (71.88%) Node.js
2 11 (34.38%) Spring
2 11 (34.38%) Spring Boot
3 5 (15.63%) Terraform
4 2 (6.25%) Jest
4 2 (6.25%) Next.js
4 2 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 2 (6.25%) React
4 2 (6.25%) REST
4 2 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (6.25%) Swagger
5 1 (3.13%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 27 (84.38%) DevOps
3 20 (62.50%) DevSecOps
4 17 (53.13%) Workflow
5 15 (46.88%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (46.88%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 15 (46.88%) RBAC
5 15 (46.88%) Secrets Management
5 15 (46.88%) Workflow Management
6 7 (21.88%) Agile
6 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
7 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (12.50%) GitOps
8 4 (12.50%) Microservices
9 3 (9.38%) AI
9 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
9 3 (9.38%) Observability
10 2 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) Java
2 24 (75.00%) SQL
3 23 (71.88%) Kotlin
4 21 (65.63%) TypeScript
5 7 (21.88%) Python
6 5 (15.63%) Go
7 4 (12.50%) Bash
8 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 2 (6.25%) Ruby
9 1 (3.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (81.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
2 2 (6.25%) Istio
3 1 (3.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) New Relic
1 2 (6.25%) OpenAI