Amazon SageMaker Contracts

Amazon SageMaker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon SageMaker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon SageMaker over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 534 628
Rank change year-on-year +69 +94 +101
Contract jobs citing Amazon SageMaker 44 37 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.087% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.27% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 17 41
10th Percentile £400 £439 £425
25th Percentile £453 £456 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £508 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -11.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £700
90th Percentile £774 £755 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £469 £508
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.73% -7.64%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,960 13,865 20,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.46% 32.56% 36.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,530 9,861 15,137
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 348 333
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +57.73%
75th Percentile £46.90 £36.16 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.37 £17.72 £25.87
% change year-on-year +14.95% -31.49% +34.38%

Amazon SageMaker
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon SageMaker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SageMaker in the UK

Amazon SageMaker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SageMaker.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SageMaker in the UK

Amazon SageMaker
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SageMaker over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SageMaker in the UK

Amazon SageMaker
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 May 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
England +63 34 £563 -2.17% 120
London +60 28 £538 -14.00% 89
Work from Home +55 19 £520 -1.70% 65
UK excluding London +40 4 £488 +4.00% 55
North of England +16 2 £513 +7.89% 17
North West +12 1 £625 +31.58% 9
Scotland -3 1 £500 +8.11% 13
Wales - 1 £475 -
North East - 1 £400 - 4

Amazon SageMaker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (15.91%) Jupyter
2 3 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) Apache
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 43 (97.73%) AWS
2 21 (47.73%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (47.73%) Serverless
3 18 (40.91%) Amazon S3
4 11 (25.00%) Azure
5 10 (22.73%) AWS CodeCommit
5 10 (22.73%) Cloud9 IDE
5 10 (22.73%) Textract
6 8 (18.18%) GitHub
7 7 (15.91%) Amazon Bedrock
7 7 (15.91%) Vertex AI
8 6 (13.64%) GCP
8 6 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (9.09%) Azure AI
10 2 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.09%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (20.45%) Oracle Database
3 6 (13.64%) Big Data
4 5 (11.36%) DynamoDB
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.55%) Pinecone
7 2 (4.55%) Redis
7 2 (4.55%) Weaviate
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.27%) Flink
8 1 (2.27%) Metadata
8 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) MLflow
2 5 (11.36%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Military
4 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Data Scientist
2 7 (15.91%) Senior
3 6 (13.64%) Developer
4 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Backend Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (52.27%) PyTorch
1 23 (52.27%) TensorFlow
2 18 (40.91%) NumPy
2 18 (40.91%) Pandas
3 16 (36.36%) scikit-learn
4 15 (34.09%) pydantic
5 12 (27.27%) LangChain
6 10 (22.73%) OpenCV
6 10 (22.73%) SciPy
7 8 (18.18%) Hugging Face
8 7 (15.91%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (13.64%) FastAPI
9 6 (13.64%) Kafka
9 6 (13.64%) SQLAlchemy
10 5 (11.36%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (11.36%) pytest
10 5 (11.36%) React
11 4 (9.09%) Node.js
12 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) AI Agents
1 4 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Autonomous Agent
3 2 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.27%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (81.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 32 (72.73%) Machine Learning
3 29 (65.91%) Data Science
4 14 (31.82%) Natural Language Processing
5 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 12 (27.27%) Generative AI
6 10 (22.73%) Computer Vision
6 10 (22.73%) Data Munging
6 10 (22.73%) Deep Learning
6 10 (22.73%) LLM
6 10 (22.73%) Statistical Inference
6 10 (22.73%) Visualisation
7 9 (20.45%) Agile
7 9 (20.45%) Data Engineering
7 9 (20.45%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (20.45%) Data Visualisation
7 9 (20.45%) MLOps
8 7 (15.91%) Analytics
8 7 (15.91%) Decision-Making
8 7 (15.91%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 42 (95.45%) Python
2 20 (45.45%) SQL
3 6 (13.64%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.82%) R
5 2 (4.55%) Go
5 2 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) AWS Certification
1 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) Degree
3 7 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.18%) Terraform
3 3 (6.82%) Kubeflow
4 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Oracle
2 7 (15.91%) Sage
3 6 (13.64%) Dataiku
3 6 (13.64%) DataRobot
3 6 (13.64%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) Databricks
4 2 (4.55%) OpenAI