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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 641 633
Rank change year-on-year +89 -8 +196
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 86 65 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 0.54% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 37 44 38
10th Percentile £41,750 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +5.08% -4.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £107,000 £122,875 £101,185
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +4.00%

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 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 7,051 12,112 12,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.91% 21.61% 26.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,276 7,275 10,335
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,607 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

scikit-learn
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

scikit-learn
Salary Trend

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

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

scikit-learn
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing scikit-learn over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

scikit-learn
Top 15 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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +111 84 £70,000 -17.65% 331
London +64 48 £75,000 -16.67% 85
UK excluding London +68 37 £50,000 -23.08% 276
Work from Home +46 18 £70,000 +7.69% 187
South East +38 10 £50,000 -20.00% 73
North of England +18 9 £70,000 -17.65% 60
Midlands - 7 £45,000 - 42
East of England +28 6 £56,250 - 46
North West +36 5 £70,000 -1.75% 32
South West +6 4 £42,500 -5.56% 30
East Midlands - 4 - - 15
Yorkshire -9 3 - - 25
West Midlands - 3 £45,000 - 24
North East - 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 - - 13

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 (34.88%) Apache Spark
2 11 (12.79%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (11.63%) Appian
4 3 (3.49%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (60.47%) AWS
2 45 (52.33%) Azure
3 30 (34.88%) GCP
4 19 (22.09%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (22.09%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (22.09%) Amazon S3
5 11 (12.79%) Azure Machine Learning
6 10 (11.63%) Azure AI
7 8 (9.30%) GitHub
7 8 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
8 7 (8.14%) Prefect
9 6 (6.98%) Anthropic Claude
9 6 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (6.98%) Power Automate
10 5 (5.81%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (5.81%) dbt
10 5 (5.81%) SaaS
10 5 (5.81%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.09%) Delta Lake
1 19 (22.09%) DynamoDB
1 19 (22.09%) Metadata
1 19 (22.09%) Spark SQL
2 10 (11.63%) Pinecone
2 10 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 8 (9.30%) Tableau
4 7 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (8.14%) Power BI
5 5 (5.81%) Big Data
5 5 (5.81%) MySQL
5 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.65%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.65%) Looker
6 4 (4.65%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.16%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 38 (44.19%) MLflow
2 12 (13.95%) Git
General
1 56 (65.12%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.58%) Finance
3 14 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Marketing
4 9 (10.47%) Retail
5 7 (8.14%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.49%) Electronics
7 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.33%) Banking
8 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.33%) Law
9 1 (1.16%) Digital Economy
9 1 (1.16%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 19 (22.09%) Operations Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) Senior
4 16 (18.60%) Data Scientist
5 12 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Lead
7 6 (6.98%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Senior Data Scientist
8 5 (5.81%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Consultant
9 4 (4.65%) Data Consultant
9 4 (4.65%) Development Manager
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (79.07%) PyTorch
1 68 (79.07%) TensorFlow
2 58 (67.44%) Pandas
3 44 (51.16%) NumPy
4 25 (29.07%) PySpark
5 23 (26.74%) Keras
6 19 (22.09%) Lambda Expressions
6 19 (22.09%) Metaflow
6 19 (22.09%) YAML
7 18 (20.93%) Hugging Face
8 15 (17.44%) LangChain
9 14 (16.28%) FastAPI
9 14 (16.28%) REST
10 11 (12.79%) Django
11 9 (10.47%) Flask
11 9 (10.47%) pytest
12 7 (8.14%) RESTful
13 6 (6.98%) OAuth
13 6 (6.98%) React
13 6 (6.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.09%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (15.12%) Algorithms
3 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
4 8 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (6.98%) Low-Code
7 4 (4.65%) Hackathon
8 3 (3.49%) Life Science
9 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
9 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.16%) Genomics
10 1 (1.16%) Omics
10 1 (1.16%) Robotics
10 1 (1.16%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (97.67%) Machine Learning
2 73 (84.88%) AI
3 67 (77.91%) Data Science
4 56 (65.12%) MLOps
5 51 (59.30%) CI/CD
6 43 (50.00%) Containerisation
7 37 (43.02%) LLM
8 31 (36.05%) Visualisation
9 28 (32.56%) Analytics
10 27 (31.40%) Natural Language Processing
11 25 (29.07%) Deployment Automation
11 25 (29.07%) OO
12 23 (26.74%) Unit Testing
13 21 (24.42%) Data Engineering
13 21 (24.42%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (23.26%) Information Security
15 19 (22.09%) OOP
15 19 (22.09%) OWASP
15 19 (22.09%) Time Management
15 19 (22.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) Python
2 55 (63.95%) SQL
3 8 (9.30%) R
4 7 (8.14%) Java
5 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.81%) PHP
7 4 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (4.65%) Go
7 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.49%) Bicep
9 2 (2.33%) Bash
9 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.16%) C
10 1 (1.16%) C++
10 1 (1.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 24 (27.91%) Degree
2 17 (19.77%) Master's Degree
3 8 (9.30%) PhD
4 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.65%) SLA
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 53 (61.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (51.16%) Kubernetes
2 24 (27.91%) Kubeflow
2 24 (27.91%) Terraform
3 4 (4.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (26.74%) Databricks
2 17 (19.77%) OpenAI
3 6 (6.98%) Automation Anywhere
3 6 (6.98%) Google
3 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.98%) UiPath
4 5 (5.81%) Alteryx
5 4 (4.65%) HubSpot
5 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.65%) Talend
5 4 (4.65%) Zoho
6 3 (3.49%) Foundry
6 3 (3.49%) SAP
7 2 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.33%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.33%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.16%) Amplitude