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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 593 762
Rank change year-on-year +28 +169 +87
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 106 78 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 0.75% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 72 39 22
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +36.00% -17.54%
75th Percentile £63,125 £93,778 £84,688
90th Percentile £78,375 £97,500 £114,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £76,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -50.82% +27.08% +9.33%

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 7,768 10,440 17,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.09% 22.09% 23.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,706 6,563 14,323
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +8.57% -9.63%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,001
90th Percentile £105,625 £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 28 February 2026.

Salary histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

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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 28 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 +50 94 £37,500 -55.88% 92
UK excluding London +26 61 £37,500 -50.82% 80
London +28 40 £75,000 -15.60% 46
North of England +13 31 £37,500 -55.88% 20
North West +8 15 £37,500 -56.01% 9
Yorkshire -25 11 £37,500 -49.66% 9
South West -3 8 £37,500 -48.28% 9
Work from Home +3 7 £77,500 +14.81% 23
Scotland -12 6 £37,500 -44.44% 6
West Midlands - 6 £37,500 - 3
Midlands - 6 £37,500 - 12
South East -6 5 £52,500 -8.70% 19
North East - 5 £37,500 - 2
East of England +4 4 £70,000 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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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 49 (46.23%) Jupyter
2 16 (15.09%) Appian
3 7 (6.60%) Apache Spark
4 6 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 49 (46.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 71 (66.98%) AWS
2 49 (46.23%) Cloud Computing
3 35 (33.02%) Azure
4 18 (16.98%) Azure AI
5 15 (14.15%) GCP
6 12 (11.32%) Anthropic Claude
6 12 (11.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (11.32%) Power Automate
7 8 (7.55%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (3.77%) Datadog
8 4 (3.77%) GitHub
8 4 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.77%) Prefect
9 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.89%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.94%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.94%) Serverless
11 1 (0.94%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.09%) Pinecone
2 12 (11.32%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.72%) Big Data
3 5 (4.72%) MySQL
3 5 (4.72%) Tableau
4 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.77%) Weaviate
5 3 (2.83%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 49 (46.23%) Visual Studio Code
2 24 (22.64%) MLflow
3 6 (5.66%) Git
4 2 (1.89%) GitLab
General
1 70 (66.04%) Finance
2 52 (49.06%) Manufacturing
3 49 (46.23%) Retail
4 30 (28.30%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (8.49%) Marketing
7 6 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.83%) Electronics
9 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.89%) Law
11 1 (0.94%) Banking
11 1 (0.94%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.94%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 49 (46.23%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 49 (46.23%) Programmer
1 49 (46.23%) Trainee
1 49 (46.23%) Trainee Programmer
2 16 (15.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (11.32%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (10.38%) Data Scientist
5 9 (8.49%) Senior
6 8 (7.55%) Lead
7 6 (5.66%) Consultant
7 6 (5.66%) Data Consultant
8 5 (4.72%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Developer
8 5 (4.72%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 4 (3.77%) Development Manager
9 4 (3.77%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (3.77%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (2.83%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 3 (2.83%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (78.30%) Pandas
2 71 (66.98%) NumPy
3 64 (60.38%) Hugging Face
4 53 (50.00%) Matplotlib
4 53 (50.00%) TensorFlow
5 52 (49.06%) PyTorch
6 49 (46.23%) Streamlit
7 19 (17.92%) REST
8 17 (16.04%) Django
8 17 (16.04%) FastAPI
9 15 (14.15%) LangChain
10 13 (12.26%) Flask
10 13 (12.26%) RESTful
11 12 (11.32%) Faiss
11 12 (11.32%) JWT
11 12 (11.32%) OAuth
11 12 (11.32%) OpenAPI
11 12 (11.32%) pytest
11 12 (11.32%) Swagger
11 12 (11.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (55.66%) Algorithms
2 12 (11.32%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (11.32%) Low-Code
3 6 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.77%) Hackathon
5 3 (2.83%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.83%) Life Science
6 1 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.94%) Genomics
6 1 (0.94%) Omics
6 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.94%) Social Network
6 1 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (99.06%) Machine Learning
2 103 (97.17%) AI
3 93 (87.74%) LLM
4 75 (70.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 70 (66.04%) Prompt Engineering
6 68 (64.15%) Workflow
7 61 (57.55%) OO
8 57 (53.77%) Visualisation
9 55 (51.89%) Neural Network
10 52 (49.06%) Data Privacy
11 51 (48.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 50 (47.17%) Conversational UI
13 49 (46.23%) Customer Service
13 49 (46.23%) OOP
13 49 (46.23%) Sentiment Analysis
14 36 (33.96%) Data Science
15 30 (28.30%) CI/CD
16 29 (27.36%) MLOps
17 24 (22.64%) Containerisation
17 24 (22.64%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 106 (100.00%) Python
2 26 (24.53%) SQL
3 12 (11.32%) R
4 10 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.66%) Java
6 5 (4.72%) PHP
7 4 (3.77%) Go
7 4 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.94%) C
8 1 (0.94%) C++
8 1 (0.94%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 49 (46.23%) AWS Certification
1 49 (46.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 16 (15.09%) Degree
3 8 (7.55%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.83%) PhD
6 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.77%) SLA
3 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.94%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 36 (33.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.66%) Ansible
2 6 (5.66%) Terraform
3 2 (1.89%) Grafana
3 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (51.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.75%) OpenAI
3 12 (11.32%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (11.32%) UiPath
4 6 (5.66%) Databricks
5 5 (4.72%) Foundry
6 4 (3.77%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (3.77%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.77%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.83%) SAP
8 1 (0.94%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.94%) Google