scikit-learn Job Trends

scikit-learn
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring scikit-learn skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 706 706
Rank change year-on-year +118 0 +80
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 86 85 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 0.55% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 43 35 61
10th Percentile £44,250 £47,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £108,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £142,450 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +2.00% -9.09%

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 7,913 15,365 16,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.01% 19.66% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,040 9,818 13,474
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,153
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.74% +1.77%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing scikit-learn as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for scikit-learn 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

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Top 16 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 19 September 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 +104 78 £80,000 +10.34% 99
UK excluding London +132 44 £52,500 -17.65% 45
London +50 42 £95,000 -9.52% 77
Work from Home +46 24 £62,500 -5.66% 64
North of England +39 12 £55,000 -21.43% 2
South East +47 8 £50,000 -25.93% 24
Midlands +57 7 £53,500 +7.00% 2
Scotland +51 7 - - 3
North West +14 7 £55,000 -10.20% 1
East of England - 7 £56,250 - 2
Yorkshire +14 4 £55,000 -21.43%
East Midlands - 4 - - 1
West Midlands +48 3 £53,500 +7.00% 1
South West +70 2 £42,500 -20.93% 6
Wales - 1 - -
North East - 1 - - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (44.19%) Apache Spark
2 12 (13.95%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.98%) Apache
4 3 (3.49%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (73.26%) AWS
2 42 (48.84%) Azure
3 33 (38.37%) GCP
4 19 (22.09%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (22.09%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (22.09%) Amazon S3
5 9 (10.47%) Amazon SageMaker
5 9 (10.47%) Azure Machine Learning
6 8 (9.30%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.81%) dbt
7 5 (5.81%) GitHub
7 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.81%) Prefect
7 5 (5.81%) SaaS
7 5 (5.81%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.65%) Fivetran
8 4 (4.65%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
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 8 (9.30%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.30%) Power BI
3 7 (8.14%) Big Data
3 7 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.14%) Tableau
4 6 (6.98%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.81%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.65%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.65%) Looker
6 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.49%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.16%) Mixpanel
8 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.16%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 28 (32.56%) MLflow
2 14 (16.28%) Git
3 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
General
1 50 (58.14%) Social Skills
2 26 (30.23%) Finance
3 20 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.79%) Banking
5 9 (10.47%) Retail
6 8 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.98%) Law
8 5 (5.81%) Marketing
9 4 (4.65%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.33%) Legal
11 1 (1.16%) Aviation
11 1 (1.16%) Czech Language
11 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (30.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 25 (29.07%) Data Scientist
3 20 (23.26%) Senior
4 19 (22.09%) Operations Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Senior Data Scientist
6 6 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Head of AI
7 5 (5.81%) Lead
7 5 (5.81%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Implementation Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Software Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (67.44%) PyTorch
2 55 (63.95%) Pandas
2 55 (63.95%) TensorFlow
3 46 (53.49%) NumPy
4 28 (32.56%) PySpark
5 20 (23.26%) Keras
6 19 (22.09%) Lambda Expressions
6 19 (22.09%) Metaflow
6 19 (22.09%) YAML
7 14 (16.28%) Hugging Face
8 8 (9.30%) XGBoost
9 7 (8.14%) Kafka
9 7 (8.14%) LangChain
10 6 (6.98%) pytest
11 5 (5.81%) Google JAX
11 5 (5.81%) JAX
11 5 (5.81%) Seaborn
12 4 (4.65%) Matplotlib
12 4 (4.65%) pydantic
12 4 (4.65%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.74%) Algorithms
2 20 (23.26%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.49%) Robotics
6 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.16%) Blog
7 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.09%) Unix
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) VMS
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (97.67%) Machine Learning
2 74 (86.05%) Data Science
3 65 (75.58%) Artificial Intelligence
4 52 (60.47%) MLOps
5 43 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 37 (43.02%) Visualisation
7 35 (40.70%) Containerisation
8 32 (37.21%) Analytics
9 25 (29.07%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (27.91%) Unit Testing
11 23 (26.74%) Deep Learning
11 23 (26.74%) Natural Language Processing
11 23 (26.74%) Software Engineering
12 21 (24.42%) Mentoring
12 21 (24.42%) Time Management
13 19 (22.09%) Information Security
13 19 (22.09%) Metadata Management
13 19 (22.09%) OO
13 19 (22.09%) OOP
13 19 (22.09%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) Python
2 62 (72.09%) SQL
3 8 (9.30%) R
4 5 (5.81%) Java
5 4 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.49%) Bash
6 3 (3.49%) Bicep
6 3 (3.49%) C++
7 2 (2.33%) C
8 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.16%) Julia
8 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (31.40%) Degree
2 19 (22.09%) Master's Degree
3 13 (15.12%) PhD
4 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.16%) GDPR
2 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (41.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) HDFS
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (38.37%) Kubernetes
2 27 (31.40%) Kubeflow
3 22 (25.58%) Terraform
4 1 (1.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (25.58%) Databricks
2 7 (8.14%) Google
3 5 (5.81%) Alteryx
4 4 (4.65%) HubSpot
4 4 (4.65%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.65%) Talend
4 4 (4.65%) Zoho
5 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.16%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.16%) Foundry