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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 591 704
Rank change year-on-year -102 +113 +8
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 116 85 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 0.98% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 38 41 36
10th Percentile £36,725 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +19.30% -3.39%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £108,125
90th Percentile £115,625 £111,250 £140,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +19.05% -17.65% +2.00%

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 11,963 8,631 16,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 17.37% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8,643 5,530 10,922
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £39,723
25th Percentile £51,181 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,556
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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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 11 September 2026.

Salary histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

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Top 13 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 11 September 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 -85 108 £70,000 -17.65% 196
London -28 68 £107,500 +13.16% 114
Work from Home -23 35 £88,750 +47.92% 41
UK excluding London -124 34 £62,500 +19.05% 114
Midlands -40 14 £50,500 -5.61% 17
East Midlands -26 11 £41,000 - 10
South East -44 7 £70,000 +40.00% 27
North of England -45 7 £70,000 +27.27% 24
North West -24 5 £70,000 +27.27% 11
East of England -30 5 £55,000 +29.41% 12
West Midlands -31 3 £62,500 +16.82% 7
Yorkshire -48 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9

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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 19 (16.38%) Apache Spark
2 18 (15.52%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.59%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 83 (71.55%) AWS
2 60 (51.72%) Azure
3 52 (44.83%) GCP
4 26 (22.41%) Power Platform
5 19 (16.38%) Snowflake
6 18 (15.52%) dbt
7 15 (12.93%) Amazon S3
7 15 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (12.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (12.93%) Serverless
8 6 (5.17%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (3.45%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.45%) Google Gemini
10 4 (3.45%) SaaS
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.59%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.41%) Power BI
2 22 (18.97%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (16.38%) Tableau
4 16 (13.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (13.79%) BigQuery
5 15 (12.93%) Data Lake
5 15 (12.93%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (12.93%) Looker
5 15 (12.93%) Milvus
5 15 (12.93%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (5.17%) Big Data
6 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.31%) Pinecone
8 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.59%) MySQL
9 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.72%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (16.38%) Git
2 17 (14.66%) MLflow
3 7 (6.03%) GitLab
4 3 (2.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.86%) JIRA
6 1 (0.86%) NUnit
6 1 (0.86%) Yeoman
General
1 56 (48.28%) Finance
2 38 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (24.14%) Banking
4 23 (19.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (18.97%) Social Skills
6 20 (17.24%) Law
7 19 (16.38%) Marketing
8 9 (7.76%) Retail
9 6 (5.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (4.31%) Retail Banking
11 4 (3.45%) Legal
11 4 (3.45%) Manufacturing
11 4 (3.45%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.59%) Publishing
13 2 (1.72%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.72%) Aviation
14 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (25.86%) Data Scientist
2 29 (25.00%) Senior
3 28 (24.14%) Lead
4 22 (18.97%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 17 (14.66%) Senior Data Scientist
5 17 (14.66%) Software Engineer
6 15 (12.93%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 15 (12.93%) Systems Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) Developer
8 10 (8.62%) Lead Data Scientist
9 8 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Consultant
11 5 (4.31%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) Data Consultant
12 4 (3.45%) Data Science Consultant
12 4 (3.45%) Security Consultant
13 3 (2.59%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 3 (2.59%) Software Developer
14 2 (1.72%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (76.72%) PyTorch
2 74 (63.79%) TensorFlow
3 45 (38.79%) Pandas
4 38 (32.76%) LangChain
5 33 (28.45%) NumPy
6 22 (18.97%) Kafka
7 21 (18.10%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (14.66%) pgvector
9 15 (12.93%) LangGraph
10 13 (11.21%) XGBoost
11 9 (7.76%) FastAPI
11 9 (7.76%) REST
12 8 (6.90%) Flask
12 8 (6.90%) Terraform
13 7 (6.03%) Hugging Face
13 7 (6.03%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (6.03%) Streamlit
14 5 (4.31%) AngularJS
14 5 (4.31%) Matplotlib
14 5 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 51 (43.97%) Cloud Native
2 17 (14.66%) Product Ownership
3 16 (13.79%) Clustering
4 15 (12.93%) Public Cloud
5 11 (9.48%) Mobile Banking
6 10 (8.62%) Algorithms
7 9 (7.76%) AI Agents
8 7 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (5.17%) Credit Risk
10 4 (3.45%) Blog
11 3 (2.59%) Data Structures
11 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (2.59%) Hackathon
12 2 (1.72%) CUDA
12 2 (1.72%) Synthetic Data
13 1 (0.86%) Acoustics
13 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.86%) Life Science
13 1 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (93.10%) Machine Learning
2 92 (79.31%) Data Science
3 88 (75.86%) AI
4 57 (49.14%) Generative AI
5 54 (46.55%) Analytics
6 49 (42.24%) LLM
6 49 (42.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 43 (37.07%) CI/CD
8 42 (36.21%) MLOps
8 42 (36.21%) Prompt Engineering
9 41 (35.34%) Software Engineering
10 40 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
11 39 (33.62%) Statistics
12 36 (31.03%) Decision-Making
12 36 (31.03%) Use Case
13 35 (30.17%) Data Engineering
13 35 (30.17%) Feature Engineering
14 31 (26.72%) Predictive Modelling
15 27 (23.28%) Computer Science
16 25 (21.55%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 109 (93.97%) Python
2 58 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.45%) Java
5 3 (2.59%) C++
5 3 (2.59%) R
6 1 (0.86%) Bash
6 1 (0.86%) C
6 1 (0.86%) C#
6 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.86%) Scala
6 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (28.45%) Degree
2 18 (15.52%) Security Cleared
3 17 (14.66%) PhD
4 11 (9.48%) Master's Degree
5 6 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.17%) DBS Check
6 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.24%) GDPR
2 15 (12.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (8.62%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.31%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 14 (12.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.31%) Ansible
2 5 (4.31%) Grafana
2 5 (4.31%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.72%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (22.41%) Databricks
2 15 (12.93%) Cloudera
2 15 (12.93%) Dell
3 13 (11.21%) OpenAI
4 12 (10.34%) Google
5 10 (8.62%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.72%) Foundry
6 2 (1.72%) Mistral
6 2 (1.72%) Thales
6 2 (1.72%) Workday
7 1 (0.86%) Cognizant