scikit-learn Job Trends

scikit-learn
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring scikit-learn skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 635 727
Rank change year-on-year +59 +92 +127
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 84 60 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.080%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 0.54% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 49 40 25
10th Percentile - £56,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +19.23% -14.24%
75th Percentile £70,000 £93,757 £86,250
90th Percentile £79,500 £97,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -44.44% +12.50% +1.53%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,567 11,016 17,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.35% 22.13% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 6,643 14,288
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

scikit-learn job vacancy trend in the UK

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing scikit-learn.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing scikit-learn

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing scikit-learn over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

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Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing scikit-learn within the UK over the 6 months to 13 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 76 £37,500 -55.88% 116
UK excluding London +20 41 £37,500 -44.44% 100
London +54 39 £75,000 -18.42% 42
North of England +10 18 £37,500 -55.88% 31
North West +16 10 £37,500 -57.81% 17
South West -9 6 £37,500 -16.67% 10
Work from Home +33 5 £77,500 +21.09% 41
South East +28 5 £52,500 -16.00% 25
Yorkshire -30 5 £37,500 -55.88% 10
East of England +15 4 £70,000 - 7
Scotland -18 4 £37,500 -42.31% 7
West Midlands - 4 £37,500 - 4
Midlands - 4 £37,500 - 13
North East - 3 £37,500 - 4

scikit-learn
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 30 (35.71%) Jupyter
2 16 (19.05%) Appian
3 8 (9.52%) Apache Spark
4 6 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 28 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 48 (57.14%) AWS
2 35 (41.67%) Azure
3 28 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 18 (21.43%) Azure AI
5 15 (17.86%) GCP
6 12 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
6 12 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (14.29%) Power Automate
7 8 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (4.76%) Datadog
8 4 (4.76%) GitHub
8 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.76%) Prefect
9 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.19%) Serverless
11 1 (1.19%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.05%) Pinecone
2 12 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.14%) Big Data
3 6 (7.14%) Tableau
4 5 (5.95%) MySQL
5 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.76%) Weaviate
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
2 22 (26.19%) MLflow
3 5 (5.95%) Git
4 2 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 50 (59.52%) Finance
2 31 (36.90%) Manufacturing
3 29 (34.52%) Social Skills
4 28 (33.33%) Retail
5 9 (10.71%) Marketing
6 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.57%) Electronics
9 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.38%) Law
11 1 (1.19%) Banking
11 1 (1.19%) Digital Economy
11 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 28 (33.33%) Programmer
1 28 (33.33%) Trainee
1 28 (33.33%) Trainee Programmer
2 16 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (13.10%) Senior
5 8 (9.52%) Data Scientist
5 8 (9.52%) Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Consultant
6 6 (7.14%) Data Consultant
6 6 (7.14%) Lead
7 5 (5.95%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 4 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Data Science Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Development Manager
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (3.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (76.19%) Pandas
2 52 (61.90%) NumPy
3 50 (59.52%) TensorFlow
4 49 (58.33%) PyTorch
5 42 (50.00%) Hugging Face
6 34 (40.48%) Matplotlib
7 28 (33.33%) Streamlit
8 21 (25.00%) REST
9 19 (22.62%) FastAPI
10 17 (20.24%) Django
11 16 (19.05%) LangChain
12 14 (16.67%) Flask
12 14 (16.67%) pytest
13 13 (15.48%) RESTful
14 12 (14.29%) Faiss
14 12 (14.29%) JWT
14 12 (14.29%) OAuth
14 12 (14.29%) OpenAPI
14 12 (14.29%) Swagger
14 12 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (45.24%) Algorithms
2 12 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (14.29%) Low-Code
3 8 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.76%) Hackathon
6 3 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.57%) Life Science
7 1 (1.19%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.19%) Genomics
7 1 (1.19%) Omics
7 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.19%) Social Network
7 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (98.81%) Machine Learning
2 81 (96.43%) AI
3 71 (84.52%) LLM
4 52 (61.90%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 49 (58.33%) Prompt Engineering
6 47 (55.95%) Workflow
7 40 (47.62%) OO
8 39 (46.43%) Visualisation
9 36 (42.86%) Data Science
10 34 (40.48%) Neural Network
11 31 (36.90%) Data Privacy
12 30 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 30 (35.71%) CI/CD
13 29 (34.52%) Conversational UI
14 28 (33.33%) Customer Service
14 28 (33.33%) MLOps
14 28 (33.33%) OOP
14 28 (33.33%) Sentiment Analysis
15 24 (28.57%) Data Engineering
16 22 (26.19%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 84 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (29.76%) SQL
3 13 (15.48%) R
4 10 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.14%) Java
6 5 (5.95%) PHP
7 4 (4.76%) Go
7 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.38%) Bicep
9 1 (1.19%) C
9 1 (1.19%) C++
9 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 28 (33.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 15 (17.86%) Degree
3 7 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) PhD
6 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) SLA
3 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 35 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (36.90%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.14%) Ansible
2 6 (7.14%) Terraform
3 2 (2.38%) Grafana
3 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (26.19%) OpenAI
3 12 (14.29%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (14.29%) UiPath
4 6 (7.14%) Databricks
5 5 (5.95%) Foundry
6 4 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.76%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.76%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.57%) SAP
8 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.19%) Google