Amazon SageMaker Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon SageMaker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon SageMaker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 356 404
Rank change year-on-year -4 +48 +90
Contract jobs citing Amazon SageMaker 23 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.063% 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 14
10th Percentile £362 £448 £436
25th Percentile £402 £486 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £484 £538 £530
90th Percentile £601 - £679
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -22.86%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Amazon SageMaker falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,216 4,959 6,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.88% 28.43% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,508 3,175 4,856
10th Percentile £239 £250 £225
25th Percentile £380 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 129 246
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £20.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £33.93 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +44.85% +18.85%
75th Percentile £35.16 £69.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +6.06% +46.67%

Amazon SageMaker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon SageMaker job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon SageMaker
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon SageMaker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SageMaker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SageMaker in the UK excluding London

Amazon SageMaker
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SageMaker within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 October 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -9 10 £420 -19.62% 10
North West -3 9 £435 -16.35% 9
South East +14 6 £425 -19.05% 5
Scotland +3 5 £403 -23.33% 1
Midlands -12 3 £575 +21.05% 1
West Midlands -15 2 £575 +21.05% 1
East Midlands -9 1 £575 -
Yorkshire -24 1 - -
North East - 1 £400 - 1
Amazon SageMaker
UK

Amazon SageMaker
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 7 (30.43%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Amazon S3
2 13 (56.52%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (56.52%) Serverless
3 9 (39.13%) Amazon Bedrock
4 8 (34.78%) Azure
5 6 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (21.74%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (21.74%) ChatGPT
7 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (8.70%) GCP
8 2 (8.70%) Textract
8 2 (8.70%) Vertex AI
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (4.35%) dbt
9 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Big Data
2 7 (30.43%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (4.35%) Metadata
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) MLflow
2 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (26.09%) GitLab
4 4 (17.39%) JIRA
General
1 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Data Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Data Scientist
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Lead
5 3 (13.04%) Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.70%) UI Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) PyTorch
1 8 (34.78%) scikit-learn
2 7 (30.43%) Hugging Face
3 5 (21.74%) Flask
3 5 (21.74%) HTML
3 5 (21.74%) NumPy
3 5 (21.74%) Pandas
3 5 (21.74%) PySpark
3 5 (21.74%) RESTful
3 5 (21.74%) TensorFlow
4 3 (13.04%) Node.js
4 3 (13.04%) Prophet
4 3 (13.04%) React
5 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.70%) LangChain
5 2 (8.70%) Next.js
5 2 (8.70%) Streamlit
5 2 (8.70%) Torch
6 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
6 1 (4.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
3 3 (13.04%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Smart City
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Machine Learning
2 14 (60.87%) AI
3 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
4 11 (47.83%) Data Engineering
5 10 (43.48%) MLOps
6 8 (34.78%) Data Science
6 8 (34.78%) DevOps
6 8 (34.78%) LLM
7 7 (30.43%) Analytics
7 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (30.43%) Statistical Analysis
8 6 (26.09%) Data Privacy
8 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (21.74%) Agile
9 5 (21.74%) Generative AI
9 5 (21.74%) Time Series Forecasting
10 4 (17.39%) Clean Code
10 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
10 4 (17.39%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.35%) EU AI Act
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Sage
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Informatica