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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 635 768
Rank change year-on-year +26 +133 +184
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SageMaker 61 49 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.10% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.28% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 24 16 12
10th Percentile £45,068 £51,250 -
25th Percentile £52,475 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -15.07% +30.36%
75th Percentile £82,975 £80,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £97,500 £119,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -9.43%

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 23,027 17,629 29,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 37.22% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,374 10,912 23,816
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 27 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon SageMaker in the UK

Amazon SageMaker
Top 13 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 27 February 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 +32 51 £65,000 -3.70% 26
London +58 35 £62,250 -34.47% 18
Work from Home +40 24 £60,100 -19.87% 10
UK excluding London -20 15 £65,000 +4.00% 14
North of England -11 5 £83,774 -16.23% 3
Midlands 0 4 £60,100 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £60,100 - 1
South West - 4 £60,100 - 3
North West -3 2 £80,637 -19.36% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £77,387 -
South East -6 1 £67,000 +27.62% 5
Scotland -20 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £83,774 -

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 13 (21.31%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (14.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.64%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 55 (90.16%) AWS
2 36 (59.02%) Azure
3 31 (50.82%) Vertex AI
4 21 (34.43%) Azure AI
5 16 (26.23%) Amazon S3
6 13 (21.31%) GCP
7 12 (19.67%) Snowflake
8 10 (16.39%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (14.75%) Dagster
9 9 (14.75%) Serverless
10 6 (9.84%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (6.56%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (6.56%) dbt
12 3 (4.92%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
13 2 (3.28%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) Amazon Redshift
1 13 (21.31%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (19.67%) Delta Lake
3 10 (16.39%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (16.39%) Looker
3 10 (16.39%) Tableau
4 9 (14.75%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (14.75%) BigQuery
4 9 (14.75%) Pinecone
4 9 (14.75%) Weaviate
5 6 (9.84%) Metadata
6 5 (8.20%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (4.92%) Big Data
7 3 (4.92%) DB2
7 3 (4.92%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.92%) IBM InfoSphere
7 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.92%) Parquet
7 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (24.59%) MLflow
2 2 (3.28%) DBeaver
3 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (39.34%) Finance
2 21 (34.43%) Banking
2 21 (34.43%) Marketing
2 21 (34.43%) Pharmaceutical
2 21 (34.43%) Retail
3 11 (18.03%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.56%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (42.62%) Lead
2 19 (31.15%) Senior
3 10 (16.39%) Data Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 9 (14.75%) Consultant
4 9 (14.75%) Data Consultant
4 9 (14.75%) Senior Consultant
5 6 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Architect
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.28%) DataOps Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Python Engineer
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (1.64%) Data Architect
9 1 (1.64%) Data Scientist
9 1 (1.64%) Developer
9 1 (1.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.67%) PyTorch
1 12 (19.67%) TensorFlow
2 9 (14.75%) Faiss
2 9 (14.75%) vLLM
3 7 (11.48%) LangChain
4 6 (9.84%) PySpark
5 4 (6.56%) AWS CDK
5 4 (6.56%) LangGraph
5 4 (6.56%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (4.92%) Kafka
7 2 (3.28%) Dask
7 2 (3.28%) Laravel
7 2 (3.28%) Next.js
7 2 (3.28%) NumPy
7 2 (3.28%) Pandas
7 2 (3.28%) React
7 2 (3.28%) SciPy
8 1 (1.64%) Node.js
8 1 (1.64%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (34.43%) Life Science
1 21 (34.43%) Pharmacovigilance
2 9 (14.75%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.92%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.64%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Unix
2 1 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (73.77%) Machine Learning
2 43 (70.49%) AI
3 38 (62.30%) Analytics
4 36 (59.02%) Presales
5 34 (55.74%) Data Science
6 32 (52.46%) Computer Science
7 31 (50.82%) Use Case
8 30 (49.18%) Workshop Facilitation
9 26 (42.62%) Data Pipeline
10 25 (40.98%) CI/CD
10 25 (40.98%) Fraud Detection
11 24 (39.34%) Collaborative Working
12 23 (37.70%) Data Engineering
13 22 (36.07%) Conversational UI
13 22 (36.07%) Enterprise Architecture
13 22 (36.07%) TOGAF
14 21 (34.43%) Co-Creation
14 21 (34.43%) Customer Engagement
14 21 (34.43%) Matrix Organization
14 21 (34.43%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.90%) Python
2 18 (29.51%) SQL
3 17 (27.87%) Scala
4 11 (18.03%) Bash
5 10 (16.39%) Java
6 9 (14.75%) Go
7 1 (1.64%) C++
7 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.64%) Korn
7 1 (1.64%) PHP
7 1 (1.64%) R
7 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (50.82%) Degree
2 22 (36.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (34.43%) Master's Degree
4 8 (13.11%) AWS Certification
5 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
6 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (34.43%) EU AI Act
1 21 (34.43%) GDPR
1 21 (34.43%) HIPAA
1 21 (34.43%) PSD2
1 21 (34.43%) Solvency II
2 11 (18.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (36.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (27.87%) Terraform
2 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.56%) Grafana
3 4 (6.56%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.92%) Control-M
5 1 (1.64%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 23 (37.70%) Google
2 14 (22.95%) Databricks
3 10 (16.39%) Palantir
4 3 (4.92%) BMC
4 3 (4.92%) IBM
4 3 (4.92%) Talend
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.64%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.64%) OpenAI