Amazon OpenSearch Job Trends

Amazon OpenSearch Service
UK

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 725 655 762
Rank change year-on-year -70 +107 +8
Permanent jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch 80 18 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.036% 0.028%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.11% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 49 18 10
10th Percentile £50,149 £50,000 £54,625
25th Percentile £68,813 £51,563 £64,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £93,750 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +35.27% +10.89%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £74,144
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £77,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £55,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +40.91% -20.64% +10.89%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 27,740 15,737 24,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.55% 31.68% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,793 10,656 16,102
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Amazon OpenSearch
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon OpenSearch job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon OpenSearch

Amazon OpenSearch
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon OpenSearch over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon OpenSearch in the UK

Amazon OpenSearch
Top 9 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 September 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
England -76 59 £85,000 -10.53% 50
UK excluding London -90 33 £77,500 +40.91% 44
North of England - 28 £85,000 - 11
London -46 26 £85,000 -10.53% 22
Yorkshire - 25 £85,000 - 1
Work from Home -21 24 £85,000 -10.53% 38
South East - 4 £61,250 - 7
North West - 3 £75,000 - 6
South West - 1 - - 8

Amazon OpenSearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 18 (22.50%) Apache
1 18 (22.50%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 7 (8.75%) Apache Solr
4 2 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 64 (80.00%) AWS
2 47 (58.75%) Amazon S3
3 42 (52.50%) Amazon ECS
3 42 (52.50%) Serverless
4 40 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (46.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 37 (46.25%) GitHub
6 33 (41.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 30 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (33.75%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (28.75%) Datadog
10 15 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (18.75%) SaaS
11 9 (11.25%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (11.25%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (8.75%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (8.75%) AWS CloudTrail
14 6 (7.50%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (7.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.25%) BGP
2 1 (1.25%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
1 32 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 30 (37.50%) DynamoDB
3 23 (28.75%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (20.00%) Relational Database
6 10 (12.50%) MySQL
7 8 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (8.75%) Redis
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (5.00%) DocumentDB
9 4 (5.00%) Flink
10 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.50%) Neo4j
10 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.50%) Triplestore
11 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 20 (25.00%) Git
2 14 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 11 (13.75%) GitLab
4 5 (6.25%) Poetry
4 5 (6.25%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.50%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.50%) JIRA
5 2 (2.50%) MLflow
5 2 (2.50%) Mocha
5 2 (2.50%) Snyk
General
1 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.25%) Finance
3 4 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (43.75%) Developer
2 27 (33.75%) Java Developer
3 22 (27.50%) Senior
4 21 (26.25%) Data Engineer
5 15 (18.75%) AWS Developer
6 14 (17.50%) Lead
7 12 (15.00%) Lead Data Engineer
8 11 (13.75%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (11.25%) Python Engineer
11 8 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
11 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
12 7 (8.75%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (7.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 6 (7.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
14 5 (6.25%) Junior
14 5 (6.25%) Site Engineer
14 5 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (42.50%) Terraform
2 31 (38.75%) Node.js
3 29 (36.25%) AngularJS
4 25 (31.25%) Kafka
5 15 (18.75%) Spring
5 15 (18.75%) Spring Boot
6 9 (11.25%) REST
7 8 (10.00%) PySpark
8 7 (8.75%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (7.50%) AWS CDK
9 6 (7.50%) React
10 5 (6.25%) PyTorch
10 5 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (6.25%) SAML
10 5 (6.25%) scikit-learn
11 3 (3.75%) JSON
12 2 (2.50%) Django
12 2 (2.50%) Ruby on Rails
12 2 (2.50%) Swagger
12 2 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.75%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (72.50%) CI/CD
2 42 (52.50%) DevOps
3 36 (45.00%) Observability
4 33 (41.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (35.00%) AI
5 28 (35.00%) DevSecOps
6 23 (28.75%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (27.50%) Workflow
8 19 (23.75%) Containerisation
8 19 (23.75%) Data Engineering
8 19 (23.75%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (21.25%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (21.25%) RBAC
10 16 (20.00%) Agile
11 15 (18.75%) Machine Learning
11 15 (18.75%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 15 (18.75%) Secrets Management
11 15 (18.75%) Workflow Management
12 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (57.50%) Python
2 36 (45.00%) SQL
3 33 (41.25%) Java
4 32 (40.00%) TypeScript
5 27 (33.75%) Kotlin
6 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.75%) Bash
8 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.75%) Go
10 2 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (63.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (26.25%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.50%) Grafana
3 10 (12.50%) Ansible
3 10 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 8 (10.00%) Packer
5 7 (8.75%) Argo
6 3 (3.75%) Istio
7 2 (2.50%) logstash
8 1 (1.25%) Cilium
Vendors
1 2 (2.50%) AppDynamics
1 2 (2.50%) Databricks
1 2 (2.50%) Google
1 2 (2.50%) New Relic
1 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.25%) Netezza
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle
2 1 (1.25%) Teradata