scikit-learn Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring scikit-learn skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited scikit-learn over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 397 452
Rank change year-on-year +88 +55 +41
Contract jobs citing scikit-learn 27 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.010% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 0.061% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 2 8
10th Percentile £470 £466 £328
25th Percentile £525 £472 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -0.97% -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £572 £551
90th Percentile - £589 £562
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £521
% change year-on-year +9.52% +0.72% -13.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing scikit-learn as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for scikit-learn in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing scikit-learn in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for scikit-learn in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing scikit-learn in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for scikit-learn in the UK excluding London

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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 scikit-learn within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
East of England - 16 £650 - 6
South East +49 4 £525 +10.53% 26
Wales - 3 £575 -
Scotland - 2 £450 - 11
North of England - 2 £500 - 10
North West - 2 £500 - 7
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (70.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (14.81%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) Azure
2 20 (74.07%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) GCP
4 6 (22.22%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AI
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (70.37%) Big Data
2 17 (62.96%) Tableau
3 16 (59.26%) Hadoop
4 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Neo4j
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) PyCharm
2 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Developer
2 14 (51.85%) Data Science Developer
3 11 (40.74%) Senior
4 10 (37.04%) Senior Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Data Scientist
6 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Gen AI Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Computer Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Computer Vision Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) Machine Learning Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (85.19%) Pandas
1 23 (85.19%) TensorFlow
2 21 (77.78%) NumPy
2 21 (77.78%) PyTorch
3 17 (62.96%) Matplotlib
4 16 (59.26%) Seaborn
5 1 (3.70%) Express.js
5 1 (3.70%) LangChain
5 1 (3.70%) NestJS
5 1 (3.70%) Node.js
5 1 (3.70%) OpenCV
5 1 (3.70%) Prophet
5 1 (3.70%) PySpark
5 1 (3.70%) RESTful
5 1 (3.70%) SciPy
5 1 (3.70%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 20 (74.07%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 24 (88.89%) Data Science
3 23 (85.19%) Artificial Intelligence
4 19 (70.37%) Visualisation
5 18 (66.67%) LLM
6 17 (62.96%) Data Analysis
6 17 (62.96%) Generative AI
6 17 (62.96%) Time Series Forecasting
7 16 (59.26%) Analytics
7 16 (59.26%) Data Munging
7 16 (59.26%) Decision-Making
7 16 (59.26%) Statistical Modelling
8 15 (55.56%) Data Analytics
8 15 (55.56%) Feature Engineering
9 14 (51.85%) Predictive Analytics
9 14 (51.85%) Reinforcement Learning
10 13 (48.15%) Computer Science
11 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
12 4 (14.81%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (96.30%) Python
2 18 (66.67%) R
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) Degree
2 12 (44.44%) Master's Degree
2 12 (44.44%) PhD
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (59.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) Databricks
2 1 (3.70%) Foundry
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) OpenAI