scikit-learn Contract Job Trends in Scotland

scikit-learn
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring scikit-learn skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 111 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing scikit-learn 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.20% 0.19% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 0.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £368 £397 -
25th Percentile £380 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% - -
75th Percentile £403 £463 -
90th Percentile £403 £466 -
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +0.72%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

scikit-learn falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 308 380 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.30% 23.66% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 256 302
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £482
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -2.49% +1.37%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £631 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £57.58 - £47.20
25th Percentile £58.65 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.36 - £56.40
Median % change year-on-year - - +148.62%
75th Percentile £63.15 - £73.75
90th Percentile £63.66 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing scikit-learn relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

scikit-learn job vacancy trend in Scotland

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Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing scikit-learn.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing scikit-learn

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing scikit-learn within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +3 3 £402 -2.96% 4
scikit-learn
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (66.67%) Torch
3 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft