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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 556 788
Rank change year-on-year +3 +232 +82
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 145 84 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.079%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.73% 0.96% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 76 44 26
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £85,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +33.33% -15.00%
75th Percentile £56,875 £95,625 £86,250
90th Percentile £76,875 £118,500 £106,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -55.88% +36.00% +5.76%

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 8,380 8,782 19,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.50% 21.48% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,129 6,572 15,498
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 2 April 2026.

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 2 April 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 -10 131 £37,500 -56.01% 135
UK excluding London -26 79 £37,500 -55.88% 118
London +11 58 £75,000 -15.60% 48
North of England -41 34 £37,500 -55.88% 26
North West -11 17 £37,500 -56.01% 12
Midlands - 16 £37,500 - 19
Yorkshire -45 12 £37,500 -49.66% 8
Work from Home -23 10 £73,750 +13.46% 32
East of England -28 9 - - 9
West Midlands - 9 £37,500 - 5
South West -31 8 £37,500 -38.78% 13
East Midlands - 7 £37,500 - 14
Scotland -25 6 £37,500 -46.43% 5
South East -35 5 £46,250 -53.75% 37
North East - 5 £37,500 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

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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 54 (37.24%) Jupyter
2 28 (19.31%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (19.31%) Apache Spark
3 16 (11.03%) Appian
Applications
1 54 (37.24%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 106 (73.10%) AWS
2 63 (43.45%) Azure
3 54 (37.24%) Cloud Computing
4 43 (29.66%) GCP
5 29 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 25 (17.24%) Snowflake
7 23 (15.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (15.86%) dbt
8 17 (11.72%) Azure AI
9 13 (8.97%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (8.28%) Power Automate
11 9 (6.21%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (2.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.76%) Datadog
12 4 (2.76%) GitHub
12 4 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.76%) Prefect
13 3 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.00%) Power BI
2 27 (18.62%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (18.62%) Tableau
3 24 (16.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 23 (15.86%) BigQuery
4 23 (15.86%) Data Lake
4 23 (15.86%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (15.86%) Looker
4 23 (15.86%) Snowflake Schema
5 17 (11.72%) Pinecone
6 12 (8.28%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.45%) Big Data
7 5 (3.45%) MySQL
8 4 (2.76%) Weaviate
9 3 (2.07%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (37.24%) Visual Studio Code
2 46 (31.72%) MLflow
3 6 (4.14%) Git
4 5 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 80 (55.17%) Finance
2 60 (41.38%) Retail
3 57 (39.31%) Manufacturing
4 41 (28.28%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (19.31%) Social Skills
6 9 (6.21%) Marketing
7 6 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.76%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.07%) Electronics
9 3 (2.07%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.38%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (35.17%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 51 (35.17%) Programmer
1 51 (35.17%) Trainee
1 51 (35.17%) Trainee Programmer
2 35 (24.14%) Senior
3 23 (15.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 23 (15.86%) Systems Engineer
4 18 (12.41%) Data Scientist
5 15 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (8.28%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (7.59%) Lead
8 10 (6.90%) Developer
9 8 (5.52%) Senior Data Scientist
10 7 (4.83%) Machine Learning Scientist
11 6 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 6 (4.14%) Consultant
11 6 (4.14%) Data Consultant
12 5 (3.45%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (64.83%) Pandas
2 85 (58.62%) PyTorch
3 77 (53.10%) NumPy
4 74 (51.03%) TensorFlow
5 69 (47.59%) Hugging Face
6 58 (40.00%) Matplotlib
7 54 (37.24%) Streamlit
8 36 (24.83%) LangChain
9 29 (20.00%) Kafka
10 25 (17.24%) LlamaIndex
11 24 (16.55%) pgvector
12 21 (14.48%) REST
13 18 (12.41%) FastAPI
14 17 (11.72%) Django
15 13 (8.97%) Flask
15 13 (8.97%) RESTful
16 12 (8.28%) OAuth
16 12 (8.28%) pytest
16 12 (8.28%) Swagger
16 12 (8.28%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 63 (43.45%) Algorithms
2 29 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 23 (15.86%) Clustering
3 23 (15.86%) Public Cloud
4 12 (8.28%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (8.28%) Low-Code
5 8 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.76%) Hackathon
8 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.07%) Life Science
9 1 (0.69%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.69%) Genomics
9 1 (0.69%) Omics
9 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.69%) Social Network
9 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 134 (92.41%) AI
3 106 (73.10%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 99 (68.28%) LLM
5 98 (67.59%) Prompt Engineering
6 73 (50.34%) Workflow
7 68 (46.90%) Data Science
8 67 (46.21%) Visualisation
9 66 (45.52%) OO
10 61 (42.07%) Neural Network
11 59 (40.69%) Conversational UI
12 56 (38.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 56 (38.62%) Data Privacy
13 54 (37.24%) Customer Service
13 54 (37.24%) OOP
13 54 (37.24%) Sentiment Analysis
14 49 (33.79%) Generative AI
15 48 (33.10%) Data Engineering
16 47 (32.41%) Analytics
17 44 (30.34%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 144 (99.31%) Python
2 55 (37.93%) SQL
3 12 (8.28%) JavaScript
4 11 (7.59%) R
5 6 (4.14%) Java
6 5 (3.45%) PHP
7 4 (2.76%) Go
7 4 (2.76%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.76%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.69%) C
8 1 (0.69%) C++
8 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 54 (37.24%) AWS Certification
1 54 (37.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 23 (15.86%) Degree
3 11 (7.59%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.14%) DBS Check
4 6 (4.14%) PhD
4 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.38%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.55%) GDPR
2 23 (15.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 16 (11.03%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (25.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (23.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Ansible
2 8 (5.52%) Terraform
3 4 (2.76%) Grafana
3 4 (2.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.69%) Argo
Vendors
1 60 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 35 (24.14%) Databricks
3 23 (15.86%) Cloudera
3 23 (15.86%) Dell
3 23 (15.86%) OpenAI
4 12 (8.28%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (8.28%) UiPath
5 8 (5.52%) Google
6 4 (2.76%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.76%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.76%) Foundry
6 4 (2.76%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.07%) SAP