diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/pom.xml b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/pom.xml
index 40c6a12e54..64442e2074 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -29,13 +29,6 @@
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.opentelemetry.semconv</groupId>
-            <artifactId>opentelemetry-semconv</artifactId>
-            <version>${version.opentelemetry-semconv}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
             <artifactId>apm-opentelemetry-embedded-metrics-sdk</artifactId>
diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/opentelemetry/SemAttributes.java b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/opentelemetry/SemAttributes.java
index 7077c599ec..a06ecc1d0c 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/opentelemetry/SemAttributes.java
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/opentelemetry/SemAttributes.java
@@ -21,29 +21,14 @@
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey;
 
 /**
- * Bridge for integration tests which use {@link io.opentelemetry.semconv.SemanticAttributes}
+ * Bridge for integration tests which use semconv attributes
  * which has been moved from {@code io.opentelemetry.semconv.trace.attributes.SemanticAttributes}.
  */
 public class SemAttributes {
 
-    public static final AttributeKey<String> HTTP_URL = getAttribute("HTTP_URL");
-    public static final AttributeKey<Long> HTTP_STATUS_CODE = getAttribute("HTTP_STATUS_CODE");
-    public static final AttributeKey<String> HTTP_METHOD = getAttribute("HTTP_METHOD");
-    public static final AttributeKey<Long> NET_PEER_PORT = getAttribute("NET_PEER_PORT");
-    public static final AttributeKey<String> NET_PEER_IP = getAttribute("NET_PEER_IP");
-
-    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-    private static <T> AttributeKey<T> getAttribute(String name) {
-        try {
-            Class<?> attribClass;
-            try {
-                attribClass = Class.forName("io.opentelemetry.semconv.SemanticAttributes");
-            } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnf) {
-                attribClass = Class.forName("io.opentelemetry.semconv.trace.attributes.SemanticAttributes");
-            }
-            return (AttributeKey<T>) attribClass.getField(name).get(null);
-        }catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
-        }
-    }
+    public static final AttributeKey<String> HTTP_URL = AttributeKey.stringKey("HTTP_URL");
+    public static final AttributeKey<Long> HTTP_STATUS_CODE = AttributeKey.longKey("HTTP_STATUS_CODE");
+    public static final AttributeKey<String> HTTP_METHOD = AttributeKey.stringKey("HTTP_METHOD");
+    public static final AttributeKey<Long> NET_PEER_PORT = AttributeKey.longKey("NET_PEER_PORT");
+    public static final AttributeKey<String> NET_PEER_IP = AttributeKey.stringKey("NET_PEER_IP");
 }
diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/src/test/java/specs/OTelBridgeStepsDefinitions.java b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/src/test/java/specs/OTelBridgeStepsDefinitions.java
index dea9a4cb24..40ae523a3e 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/src/test/java/specs/OTelBridgeStepsDefinitions.java
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-plugin/src/test/java/specs/OTelBridgeStepsDefinitions.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 
 import co.elastic.apm.agent.impl.context.ServiceTargetImpl;
 import co.elastic.apm.agent.impl.transaction.*;
-import co.elastic.apm.agent.impl.transaction.TransactionImpl;
 import co.elastic.apm.agent.opentelemetry.global.ElasticOpenTelemetry;
 import co.elastic.apm.agent.opentelemetry.tracing.ElasticOpenTelemetryTest;
 import co.elastic.apm.agent.opentelemetry.tracing.OTelSpan;
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@
 import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.SpanKind;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.StatusCode;
 import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
-import io.opentelemetry.semconv.SemanticAttributes;
 
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -103,7 +101,7 @@ public void bridgedTransactionWithRemoteContextParent() {
         assertThat(traceContext.getTraceId().toString()).isEqualTo(REMOTE_PARENT_TRACE_ID);
     }
 
-    private Context getRemoteContext(){
+    private Context getRemoteContext() {
         return getOtel().getPropagators()
             .getTextMapPropagator()
             .extract(Context.current(),
@@ -113,7 +111,7 @@ private Context getRemoteContext(){
     }
 
     @Given("OTel span is created without parent")
-    public void createOTelSpanWithoutParent(){
+    public void createOTelSpanWithoutParent() {
         otelSpan = (OTelSpan) getOtel().getTracer("")
             .spanBuilder("otel span")
             .setNoParent() // redundant, but makes it explicit
@@ -156,14 +154,14 @@ public void otelSpanIsCreatedWithKind(String kind) {
         // the parent transaction is created by another step definition, thus we reuse the existing state
         TransactionImpl parentTransaction = state.getTransaction();
 
-        Function<String,OTelSpan> createSpanWithKind = k -> {
+        Function<String, OTelSpan> createSpanWithKind = k -> {
             SpanBuilder spanBuilder = getOtel().getTracer("")
                 .spanBuilder("span")
                 .setSpanKind(SpanKind.valueOf(k));
             return (OTelSpan) spanBuilder.startSpan();
         };
 
-        if( parentTransaction != null){
+        if (parentTransaction != null) {
             // creating a span as a child of existing transaction
             try (Scope scope = parentTransaction.activateInScope()) {
                 this.otelSpan = createSpanWithKind.apply(kind);
@@ -205,40 +203,19 @@ public void otelSpanAttributes(io.cucumber.datatable.DataTable table) {
     }
 
     private static AttributeKey<?> lookupKey(String name) {
+        // only doing a simple type mapping to cover existing test cases
+        // this is not meant to be exhaustive nor to cover up-to-date semconv definitions
         switch (name) {
-            case "http.url":
-                return SemanticAttributes.HTTP_URL;
-            case "http.scheme":
-                return SemanticAttributes.HTTP_SCHEME;
-            case "http.host":
-                return SemanticAttributes.HTTP_HOST;
-            case "net.peer.name":
-                return SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME;
-            case "net.peer.ip":
-                return SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP;
             case "net.peer.port":
-                return SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT;
-            case "db.system":
-                return SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM;
-            case "db.name":
-                return SemanticAttributes.DB_NAME;
-            case "messaging.system":
-                return SemanticAttributes.MESSAGING_SYSTEM;
-            case "messaging.url":
-                return SemanticAttributes.MESSAGING_URL;
-            case "messaging.destination":
-                return SemanticAttributes.MESSAGING_DESTINATION;
-            case "rpc.system":
-                return SemanticAttributes.RPC_SYSTEM;
-            case "rpc.service":
-                return SemanticAttributes.RPC_SERVICE;
+                return AttributeKey.longKey(name);
             default:
-                throw new IllegalArgumentException("unknown key for name " + name);
+                return AttributeKey.stringKey(name);
+
         }
     }
 
     @Then("Elastic bridged (transaction|span) OTel kind is {string}")
-    public void bridgeObjectKind(String kind){
+    public void bridgeObjectKind(String kind) {
         assertThat(getBridgedAbstractSpan().getOtelKind())
             .isEqualTo(OTelSpanKind.valueOf(kind));
     }
@@ -325,7 +302,7 @@ public void bridgedSpanTargetServiceType(String type, String name) {
     }
 
     @Then("OTel span status set to {string}")
-    public void setOtelSpanStatus(String status){
+    public void setOtelSpanStatus(String status) {
         otelSpan.setStatus(StatusCode.valueOf(status.toUpperCase(Locale.ROOT)));
     }
 
diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/pom.xml b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/pom.xml
index ac1fb530fb..5f7673ab98 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
         to make sure that in the future we stay compatible with the previous version.
         -->
         <version.opentelemetry>1.32.0</version.opentelemetry>
-        <version.opentelemetry-semconv>1.29.0-alpha</version.opentelemetry-semconv>
+        <version.opentelemetry-semconv>1.30.0-rc.1</version.opentelemetry-semconv>
 
         <maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target>
         <maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source>