scikit-learn Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring scikit-learn skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 347 397
Rank change year-on-year -12 +50 +80
Contract jobs citing scikit-learn 49 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.11% 0.066%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 0.59% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 15 10
10th Percentile £362 £346 £400
25th Percentile £403 £374 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £486 £620
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% -21.61% +19.81%
75th Percentile £569 £606 £655
90th Percentile £638 £675 £777
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%

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 3,320 2,710 3,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.50% 17.90% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 1,684 2,429
10th Percentile £333 £340 £325
25th Percentile £405 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £685 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 76 139
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £36.29
25th Percentile £46.25 £44.64 £46.18
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

scikit-learn job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing scikit-learn.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing scikit-learn

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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 14 December 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 14 December 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
South East +22 22 £438 -20.45% 12
East of England -10 16 £525 -19.23% 6
North of England -38 4 £425 -12.55% 4
Scotland +3 3 £402 -8.11% 2
East Midlands -20 3 £375 +7.76%
Midlands -39 3 £375 +7.76%
North West -23 2 £425 -12.55% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
Wales - 1 £550 - 1
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (22.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 33 (67.35%) Azure
2 27 (55.10%) AWS
3 16 (32.65%) GCP
4 9 (18.37%) Serverless
5 8 (16.33%) Amazon S3
5 8 (16.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 8 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 6 (12.24%) Azure AI
7 6 (12.24%) Copilot Studio
7 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (10.20%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (10.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (10.20%) Azure AKS
8 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (10.20%) ChatGPT
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) Big Data
2 7 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 7 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.29%) Power BI
3 5 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (10.20%) Hadoop
4 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.16%) Tableau
5 3 (6.12%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.04%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.04%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Git
1 7 (14.29%) MLflow
2 4 (8.16%) JIRA
General
1 20 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Finance
3 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Data Scientist
2 9 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Architect
3 8 (16.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Security Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Senior
4 4 (8.16%) Senior Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Data Science Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 2 (4.08%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Data Science Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (73.47%) PyTorch
1 36 (73.47%) TensorFlow
2 21 (42.86%) Pandas
3 14 (28.57%) NumPy
4 7 (14.29%) REST
5 5 (10.20%) Hugging Face
5 5 (10.20%) pytest
6 4 (8.16%) Google JAX
6 4 (8.16%) JAX
6 4 (8.16%) Matplotlib
6 4 (8.16%) Prophet
6 4 (8.16%) PySpark
6 4 (8.16%) XGBoost
7 3 (6.12%) Seaborn
8 2 (4.08%) RESTful
8 2 (4.08%) Torch
9 1 (2.04%) .NET
9 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.04%) Flask
9 1 (2.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Algorithms
2 6 (12.24%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Genomics
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (97.96%) Machine Learning
2 38 (77.55%) Data Science
3 27 (55.10%) CI/CD
3 27 (55.10%) LLM
4 25 (51.02%) AI
5 21 (42.86%) Feature Engineering
6 20 (40.82%) MLOps
7 18 (36.73%) DevOps
8 17 (34.69%) Data Pipeline
9 15 (30.61%) Data Engineering
9 15 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (28.57%) Analytics
11 13 (26.53%) Actionable Insight
11 13 (26.53%) Agile
11 13 (26.53%) Statistical Modelling
11 13 (26.53%) Visualisation
12 11 (22.45%) Data Visualisation
12 11 (22.45%) Decision-Making
12 11 (22.45%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 10 (20.41%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (51.02%) SQL
3 14 (28.57%) R
4 7 (14.29%) Java
5 4 (8.16%) C++
6 3 (6.12%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Degree
2 5 (10.20%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) MCP
4 2 (4.08%) PhD
4 2 (4.08%) Postgraduate
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) GDPR
2 5 (10.20%) EU AI Act
3 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (6.12%) NIST
4 3 (6.12%) QA
5 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
5 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (32.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Google
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.33%) OpenAI
3 7 (14.29%) Foundry
4 6 (12.24%) Databricks
5 3 (6.12%) Sage
6 1 (2.04%) SAP