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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 722 603 697
Rank change year-on-year -119 +94 -19
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 86 77 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.15% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 0.92% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 32 35 34
10th Percentile £38,775 £40,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,375 £51,500 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -9.68% +7.64%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £109,375
90th Percentile £113,750 £105,750 £144,525
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -

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 11,798 8,373 15,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 16.82% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 8,342 5,331 9,807
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -123 79 £71,500 +2.14% 242
London -40 56 £87,500 -6.67% 179
Work from Home -22 30 £107,500 +82.98% 78
UK excluding London -162 18 £62,500 +19.05% 75
Midlands -46 6 £61,250 +14.49% 12
South East -52 6 £70,000 +51.35% 17
East Midlands -34 4 £50,500 - 4
North of England -82 4 £60,000 +9.09% 14
North West -28 3 £60,000 - 9
West Midlands -42 2 £103,750 +93.93% 8
Yorkshire -38 1 - - 2
East of England -46 1 £55,000 -2.22% 11
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 3 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 60 (69.77%) AWS
2 39 (45.35%) Azure
3 32 (37.21%) GCP
4 12 (13.95%) Amazon S3
4 12 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (13.95%) Serverless
5 6 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.81%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (4.65%) Azure AI
7 4 (4.65%) SaaS
7 4 (4.65%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (3.49%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (3.49%) dbt
8 3 (3.49%) GitHub
8 3 (3.49%) Google Gemini
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.33%) Figma
9 2 (2.33%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.98%) Power BI
3 5 (5.81%) Big Data
3 5 (5.81%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.65%) Pinecone
4 4 (4.65%) Tableau
5 3 (3.49%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.49%) MySQL
6 2 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.33%) Power Query
6 2 (2.33%) Redis
6 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.33%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.16%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 18 (20.93%) Git
2 4 (4.65%) GitLab
3 2 (2.33%) MLflow
4 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.16%) NUnit
4 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.16%) Yeoman
General
1 52 (60.47%) Finance
2 30 (34.88%) Banking
3 23 (26.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
5 20 (23.26%) Law
6 19 (22.09%) Marketing
7 15 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (5.81%) Retail Banking
9 4 (4.65%) Legal
9 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
10 3 (3.49%) Publishing
11 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
11 2 (2.33%) Aviation
11 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Lead
2 19 (22.09%) Software Engineer
3 18 (20.93%) Data Scientist
4 15 (17.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 15 (17.44%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 13 (15.12%) Senior
6 11 (12.79%) Senior Data Scientist
7 8 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Lead Data Scientist
9 6 (6.98%) Consultant
9 6 (6.98%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Data Consultant
10 4 (4.65%) Data Science Consultant
10 4 (4.65%) Security Consultant
11 2 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 2 (2.33%) Backend Developer
11 2 (2.33%) Integration Developer
11 2 (2.33%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (2.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (70.93%) PyTorch
2 58 (67.44%) TensorFlow
3 35 (40.70%) Pandas
4 26 (30.23%) NumPy
5 24 (27.91%) LangChain
6 17 (19.77%) LangGraph
7 9 (10.47%) XGBoost
8 8 (9.30%) FastAPI
8 8 (9.30%) Flask
8 8 (9.30%) REST
9 7 (8.14%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (6.98%) Terraform
11 5 (5.81%) Kafka
11 5 (5.81%) LlamaIndex
11 5 (5.81%) PySpark
11 5 (5.81%) Streamlit
12 4 (4.65%) Hugging Face
12 4 (4.65%) pytest
13 3 (3.49%) Keras
13 3 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 36 (41.86%) Cloud Native
2 19 (22.09%) Product Ownership
3 11 (12.79%) Mobile Banking
4 8 (9.30%) AI Agents
4 8 (9.30%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.98%) Credit Risk
6 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.65%) Blog
8 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.49%) Hackathon
9 2 (2.33%) CUDA
9 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.33%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (1.16%) Acoustics
10 1 (1.16%) Clustering
10 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (87.21%) Machine Learning
2 65 (75.58%) AI
3 63 (73.26%) Data Science
4 43 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 43 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 42 (48.84%) LLM
6 38 (44.19%) Generative AI
7 36 (41.86%) Decision-Making
7 36 (41.86%) MLOps
8 35 (40.70%) Analytics
9 30 (34.88%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 28 (32.56%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (31.40%) Statistics
12 25 (29.07%) Prompt Engineering
12 25 (29.07%) Test Automation
13 24 (27.91%) Computer Science
14 23 (26.74%) Deep Learning
15 22 (25.58%) Data Engineering
15 22 (25.58%) Use Case
16 20 (23.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 80 (93.02%) Python
2 35 (40.70%) SQL
3 5 (5.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.65%) Java
5 3 (3.49%) C++
5 3 (3.49%) R
6 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.16%) Bash
7 1 (1.16%) C
7 1 (1.16%) C#
7 1 (1.16%) Scala
7 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (30.23%) Degree
2 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
3 13 (15.12%) PhD
4 7 (8.14%) Master's Degree
5 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.79%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.81%) EU AI Act
2 5 (5.81%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.49%) Ansible
2 3 (3.49%) Grafana
2 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.16%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) OpenAI
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.65%) Databricks
3 4 (4.65%) Google
4 2 (2.33%) Foundry
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.33%) Thales
4 2 (2.33%) Workday
5 1 (1.16%) Mistral