scikit-learn Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 286 334 459
Rank change year-on-year +48 +125 +126
Contract jobs citing scikit-learn 18 11 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.072% 0.070%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 0.30% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 12
10th Percentile £440 £513 £457
25th Percentile £463 £538 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £663 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.51% +32.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £775 £756 £550
90th Percentile £795 £775 £573
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £521
% change year-on-year +9.52% +0.72% -13.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing scikit-learn as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

scikit-learn trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing scikit-learn.

scikit-learn daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

scikit-learn daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (38.89%) Apache Spark
2 5 (27.78%) Apache
3 4 (22.22%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 6 (33.33%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (22.22%) Serverless
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 3 (16.67%) AWS CodeCommit
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud9 IDE
5 3 (16.67%) Textract
6 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.11%) Vertex AI
7 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Big Data
2 5 (27.78%) Hadoop
2 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 3 (16.67%) Tableau
4 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.11%) Power BI
5 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) Neo4j
5 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MLflow
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Data Scientist
2 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Science Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) Pandas
1 11 (61.11%) TensorFlow
2 10 (55.56%) PyTorch
3 9 (50.00%) NumPy
4 7 (38.89%) Matplotlib
5 4 (22.22%) pydantic
6 3 (16.67%) OpenCV
6 3 (16.67%) Plotly
6 3 (16.67%) SciPy
6 3 (16.67%) XGBoost
7 2 (11.11%) Kafka
8 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
8 1 (5.56%) JWT
8 1 (5.56%) Keras
8 1 (5.56%) LangChain
8 1 (5.56%) OAuth
8 1 (5.56%) PySpark
8 1 (5.56%) pytest
8 1 (5.56%) Seaborn
8 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Data Science
2 13 (72.22%) Machine Learning
3 10 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (44.44%) Data Engineering
4 8 (44.44%) Visualisation
5 7 (38.89%) Deep Learning
5 7 (38.89%) Natural Language Processing
6 6 (33.33%) Analytics
6 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 6 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 5 (27.78%) Computer Vision
7 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
7 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
7 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (27.78%) LLM
8 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
8 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
8 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 10 (55.56%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.11%) PhD
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Kubeflow
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Databricks
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Google