scikit-learn Contracts

scikit-learn
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 451 539 663
Rank change year-on-year +88 +124 +98
Contract jobs citing scikit-learn 69 43 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.099% 0.092%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 0.48% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 34 28
10th Percentile £485 £452 £461
25th Percentile £510 £478 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +0.72% -13.13%
75th Percentile £675 £598 £613
90th Percentile £738 £743 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £513 £518
% change year-on-year +26.83% -0.97% -8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing scikit-learn as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for scikit-learn in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing scikit-learn.

Daily rate trend for scikit-learn in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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
England +75 57 £613 +16.67% 177
London +36 35 £566 +7.81% 126
UK excluding London +88 27 £650 +26.83% 73
Work from Home +48 18 £520 -21.51% 81
East of England - 16 £650 - 6
South East +49 4 £525 +10.53% 23
Wales - 3 £575 -
Scotland - 2 £450 - 11
North West - 2 £500 - 7
North of England - 2 £500 - 10

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (42.03%) Apache Spark
2 9 (13.04%) Apache
3 7 (10.14%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 45 (65.22%) AWS
2 37 (53.62%) Azure
3 18 (26.09%) GCP
4 15 (21.74%) Amazon SageMaker
5 12 (17.39%) Serverless
6 11 (15.94%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (14.49%) Amazon S3
7 10 (14.49%) AWS CodeCommit
7 10 (14.49%) Cloud9 IDE
7 10 (14.49%) Textract
8 8 (11.59%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (8.70%) GitHub
10 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
11 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
12 3 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
12 3 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (4.35%) Matillion
12 3 (4.35%) Vertex AI
13 2 (2.90%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (34.78%) Big Data
2 23 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 22 (31.88%) Tableau
4 14 (20.29%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (13.04%) Oracle Database
6 5 (7.25%) Power BI
7 4 (5.80%) Data Lake
8 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.90%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.45%) Flink
10 1 (1.45%) InfluxDB
10 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.45%) Neo4j
10 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Git
2 6 (8.70%) MLflow
3 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.45%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.45%) PyCharm
4 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (28.99%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.14%) Finance
5 3 (4.35%) Military
5 3 (4.35%) Retail
6 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.90%) Police
6 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Social Science
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (36.23%) Data Scientist
2 20 (28.99%) Developer
3 18 (26.09%) Senior
4 14 (20.29%) Data Science Developer
5 11 (15.94%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Lead
8 4 (5.80%) Consultant
8 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Lead Data Scientist
9 3 (4.35%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Gen AI Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Python Developer
11 1 (1.45%) Computer Engineer
11 1 (1.45%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (79.71%) Pandas
2 48 (69.57%) TensorFlow
3 46 (66.67%) PyTorch
4 42 (60.87%) NumPy
5 24 (34.78%) Matplotlib
6 16 (23.19%) Seaborn
7 13 (18.84%) pydantic
8 11 (15.94%) OpenCV
8 11 (15.94%) SciPy
9 4 (5.80%) FastAPI
9 4 (5.80%) LangChain
9 4 (5.80%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (5.80%) Plotly
9 4 (5.80%) PySpark
9 4 (5.80%) XGBoost
10 3 (4.35%) Hugging Face
10 3 (4.35%) Kafka
10 3 (4.35%) pytest
10 3 (4.35%) SQLAlchemy
11 2 (2.90%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 31 (44.93%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.25%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.90%) IoT
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.45%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (86.96%) Data Science
1 60 (86.96%) Machine Learning
2 51 (73.91%) Artificial Intelligence
3 36 (52.17%) Visualisation
4 26 (37.68%) Data Munging
4 26 (37.68%) Generative AI
5 25 (36.23%) Analytics
5 25 (36.23%) Statistical Modelling
6 24 (34.78%) Data Analysis
6 24 (34.78%) LLM
7 22 (31.88%) Decision-Making
8 21 (30.43%) Computer Science
9 19 (27.54%) Time Series Forecasting
10 18 (26.09%) Deep Learning
10 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (26.09%) Reinforcement Learning
11 17 (24.64%) Data Analytics
11 17 (24.64%) Data Visualisation
12 16 (23.19%) Feature Engineering
12 16 (23.19%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 66 (95.65%) Python
2 32 (46.38%) SQL
3 25 (36.23%) R
4 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.35%) Scala
5 3 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.90%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) C
7 1 (1.45%) Java
7 1 (1.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (30.43%) Degree
2 15 (21.74%) PhD
3 14 (20.29%) Master's Degree
4 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
5 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared
6 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (31.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (2.90%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Istio
4 1 (1.45%) linkerd
4 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.45%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Oracle
2 6 (8.70%) Databricks
3 5 (7.25%) Google
4 3 (4.35%) Dataiku
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.35%) Talend
5 2 (2.90%) DataRobot
5 2 (2.90%) Foundry
6 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.45%) Splunk