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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 642 682
Rank change year-on-year +54 +40 +143
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 67 60 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.94% 0.52% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 28 39 27
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £52,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £59,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £75,938 £94,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,250 £109,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +9.99%

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 7,157 11,496 14,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 21.55% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,299 6,755 11,753
10th Percentile £35,971 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £109,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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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 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

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Top 11 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 17 January 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 +83 64 £70,000 -17.65% 223
London +71 45 £75,000 -21.05% 61
UK excluding London +35 19 £50,000 -23.08% 212
Work from Home +52 13 £70,000 +7.69% 80
South East +34 8 £50,000 -20.00% 60
East of England +24 5 £56,250 - 34
South West +5 3 £42,500 -5.56% 24
North West +18 2 £72,500 -21.62% 15
North of England +9 2 £72,500 -14.71% 41
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 7
Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 26

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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 14 (20.90%) Appian
2 11 (16.42%) Apache Spark
3 8 (11.94%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.48%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (71.64%) Azure
2 31 (46.27%) AWS
3 27 (40.30%) GCP
4 16 (23.88%) Azure AI
5 12 (17.91%) Azure Machine Learning
6 10 (14.93%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (14.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (14.93%) Power Automate
7 8 (11.94%) GitHub
7 8 (11.94%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
10 5 (7.46%) dbt
10 5 (7.46%) SaaS
11 4 (5.97%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (5.97%) Datadog
11 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (5.97%) Fivetran
11 4 (5.97%) Google Data Studio
11 4 (5.97%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) Pinecone
1 14 (20.90%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.42%) Tableau
3 8 (11.94%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (10.45%) Big Data
5 6 (8.96%) Power BI
6 5 (7.46%) MySQL
7 4 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (5.97%) BigQuery
7 4 (5.97%) Hadoop
7 4 (5.97%) Looker
7 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.97%) Weaviate
8 1 (1.49%) Mixpanel
8 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (32.84%) MLflow
2 9 (13.43%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 39 (58.21%) Social Skills
2 25 (37.31%) Finance
3 14 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (20.90%) Marketing
4 9 (13.43%) Retail
5 7 (10.45%) Manufacturing
6 5 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.48%) Electronics
8 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.99%) Banking
9 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.99%) Law
10 1 (1.49%) Digital Economy
10 1 (1.49%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Senior
2 14 (20.90%) Data Scientist
3 13 (19.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Lead
6 6 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Consultant
6 6 (8.96%) Data Consultant
6 6 (8.96%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (7.46%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 4 (5.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Data Science Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Development Manager
8 4 (5.97%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (76.12%) PyTorch
2 50 (74.63%) TensorFlow
3 46 (68.66%) Pandas
4 31 (46.27%) NumPy
5 19 (28.36%) REST
6 18 (26.87%) FastAPI
7 17 (25.37%) Hugging Face
7 17 (25.37%) LangChain
8 15 (22.39%) Django
9 13 (19.40%) Flask
9 13 (19.40%) pytest
10 11 (16.42%) RESTful
11 10 (14.93%) Faiss
11 10 (14.93%) JWT
11 10 (14.93%) OAuth
11 10 (14.93%) OpenAPI
11 10 (14.93%) Swagger
11 10 (14.93%) Web Services
12 8 (11.94%) PySpark
12 8 (11.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Algorithms
1 11 (16.42%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (14.93%) Low-Code
3 9 (13.43%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.97%) Hackathon
6 3 (4.48%) Life Science
7 2 (2.99%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.49%) Genomics
8 1 (1.49%) Omics
8 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.49%) Social Network
8 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (97.01%) Machine Learning
2 57 (85.07%) AI
3 47 (70.15%) Data Science
4 42 (62.69%) LLM
5 35 (52.24%) MLOps
6 32 (47.76%) CI/CD
7 30 (44.78%) Analytics
8 24 (35.82%) Containerisation
8 24 (35.82%) Natural Language Processing
9 23 (34.33%) Data Engineering
9 23 (34.33%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (32.84%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 21 (31.34%) Validation
12 20 (29.85%) Generative AI
13 19 (28.36%) Prompt Engineering
14 18 (26.87%) ETL
15 17 (25.37%) Decision-Making
15 17 (25.37%) Feature Engineering
15 17 (25.37%) Open Source
15 17 (25.37%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 67 (100.00%) Python
2 37 (55.22%) SQL
3 12 (17.91%) R
4 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.96%) Java
6 5 (7.46%) PHP
7 4 (5.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (5.97%) Go
7 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.48%) Bicep
9 1 (1.49%) C
9 1 (1.49%) C++
9 1 (1.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (34.33%) Degree
2 14 (20.90%) Master's Degree
3 7 (10.45%) PhD
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.48%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.40%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.97%) SLA
3 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 36 (53.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (41.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Ansible
2 5 (7.46%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (34.33%) OpenAI
2 10 (14.93%) Automation Anywhere
2 10 (14.93%) UiPath
3 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.96%) Databricks
4 6 (8.96%) Google
5 5 (7.46%) Alteryx
5 5 (7.46%) Foundry
6 4 (5.97%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (5.97%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.97%) HubSpot
6 4 (5.97%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.97%) Talend
6 4 (5.97%) Zoho
7 3 (4.48%) SAP
8 1 (1.49%) Amplitude