Amazon SageMaker Job Trends

Amazon SageMaker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Amazon SageMaker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 658 768
Rank change year-on-year +54 +110 +190
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SageMaker 56 37 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.071% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.19% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 20 15 10
10th Percentile £41,925 £51,250 £53,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £107,500
90th Percentile £94,625 £97,500 £117,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Amazon SageMaker 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 21,259 19,071 27,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.50% 36.53% 39.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,581 11,200 22,459
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,300
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.21% -6.73%

Amazon SageMaker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon SageMaker job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon SageMaker
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon SageMaker over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon SageMaker in the UK

Amazon SageMaker
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SageMaker within the UK over the 6 months to 30 January 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 +78 47 £65,000 -3.70% 93
London +68 35 £64,500 -32.11% 30
Work from Home +83 20 £55,200 -33.09% 46
UK excluding London +38 11 £65,000 +4.00% 77
South West - 4 £60,100 - 9
Midlands +22 3 £55,200 - 8
West Midlands - 3 £55,200 - 1
North of England +5 2 £74,250 -25.75% 16
North West +21 1 £77,500 -22.50% 7
South East +21 1 £125,000 +138.10% 23
Scotland -17 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £71,000 - 5

Amazon SageMaker
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 12 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 50 (89.29%) AWS
2 31 (55.36%) Azure
3 30 (53.57%) Vertex AI
4 21 (37.50%) Azure AI
5 16 (28.57%) Amazon S3
6 13 (23.21%) Snowflake
7 12 (21.43%) GCP
8 10 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (17.86%) Serverless
9 9 (16.07%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (14.29%) Dagster
11 7 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (7.14%) dbt
13 3 (5.36%) GitHub
13 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
1 12 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (19.64%) Delta Lake
3 9 (16.07%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (16.07%) Looker
3 9 (16.07%) Tableau
4 8 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
4 8 (14.29%) BigQuery
4 8 (14.29%) Pinecone
4 8 (14.29%) Weaviate
5 6 (10.71%) Metadata
6 3 (5.36%) DB2
6 3 (5.36%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.36%) IBM InfoSphere
6 3 (5.36%) Parquet
6 3 (5.36%) Power BI
7 2 (3.57%) Big Data
7 2 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (23.21%) MLflow
2 2 (3.57%) DBeaver
3 1 (1.79%) Git
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (42.86%) Finance
2 21 (37.50%) Banking
2 21 (37.50%) Marketing
2 21 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 21 (37.50%) Retail
3 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.93%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 22 (39.29%) Lead
2 15 (26.79%) Senior
3 11 (19.64%) Data Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 8 (14.29%) Consultant
4 8 (14.29%) Data Consultant
4 8 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
5 7 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Python Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Data Architect
8 1 (1.79%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Data Scientist
8 1 (1.79%) DataOps Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Developer
8 1 (1.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) PyTorch
1 11 (19.64%) TensorFlow
2 8 (14.29%) Faiss
2 8 (14.29%) vLLM
3 7 (12.50%) LangChain
4 6 (10.71%) PySpark
5 5 (8.93%) AWS CDK
5 5 (8.93%) LangGraph
6 4 (7.14%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (5.36%) Kafka
8 2 (3.57%) Dask
8 2 (3.57%) Hugging Face
8 2 (3.57%) Next.js
8 2 (3.57%) NumPy
8 2 (3.57%) Pandas
8 2 (3.57%) SciPy
9 1 (1.79%) Node.js
9 1 (1.79%) React
9 1 (1.79%) scikit-learn
9 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (37.50%) Life Science
1 21 (37.50%) Pharmacovigilance
2 8 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (76.79%) Machine Learning
2 41 (73.21%) AI
3 35 (62.50%) Presales
4 33 (58.93%) Data Science
5 32 (57.14%) Analytics
6 30 (53.57%) Computer Science
6 30 (53.57%) Use Case
7 29 (51.79%) Workshop Facilitation
8 25 (44.64%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
10 23 (41.07%) CI/CD
11 22 (39.29%) Conversational UI
11 22 (39.29%) Data Engineering
11 22 (39.29%) Enterprise Architecture
11 22 (39.29%) TOGAF
12 21 (37.50%) Customer Engagement
12 21 (37.50%) Demand Forecasting
12 21 (37.50%) Fraud Detection
12 21 (37.50%) Matrix Organization
12 21 (37.50%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 26 (46.43%) Python
2 16 (28.57%) SQL
3 15 (26.79%) Scala
4 11 (19.64%) Bash
5 9 (16.07%) Go
5 9 (16.07%) Java
6 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.79%) Korn
6 1 (1.79%) PHP
6 1 (1.79%) R
6 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (51.79%) Degree
2 21 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (37.50%) Master's Degree
3 8 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (37.50%) EU AI Act
1 21 (37.50%) GDPR
1 21 (37.50%) HIPAA
1 21 (37.50%) PSD2
1 21 (37.50%) Solvency II
2 11 (19.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (33.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Terraform
2 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.14%) Grafana
3 4 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.36%) Control-M
5 1 (1.79%) Argo
5 1 (1.79%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Google
2 14 (25.00%) Databricks
3 9 (16.07%) Palantir
4 3 (5.36%) BMC
4 3 (5.36%) IBM
4 3 (5.36%) Oracle
4 3 (5.36%) Talend
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.79%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat