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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 684 644
Rank change year-on-year +117 -40 +187
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 88 62 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.098% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 0.46% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 43 45 45
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% -7.10%
75th Percentile £95,625 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £128,500 £101,185
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -19.23% +6.12% -5.77%

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 7,032 13,467 13,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.65% 21.29% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 8,170 10,912
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £106,289
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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +135 84 £70,000 -17.65% 151
London +84 46 £75,000 -18.92% 27
UK excluding London +100 41 £52,500 -19.23% 141
Work from Home +78 21 £65,000 -3.70% 450
North of England +49 12 £60,000 -22.58% 26
South East +47 8 £50,000 -20.00% 44
North West +50 7 £65,000 +30.00% 9
East of England +34 7 £56,250 - 20
Midlands - 7 £45,000 - 23
South West +18 4 £42,500 -5.56% 17
Yorkshire -3 4 £55,000 -35.29% 15
East Midlands - 4 - - 7
West Midlands - 3 £45,000 - 13
Scotland +14 2 - - 8
Wales - 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 2

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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 33 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 13 (14.77%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (9.09%) Appian
4 3 (3.41%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.14%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (64.77%) AWS
2 44 (50.00%) Azure
3 35 (39.77%) GCP
4 19 (21.59%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (21.59%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (21.59%) Amazon S3
5 9 (10.23%) Azure Machine Learning
5 9 (10.23%) Prefect
6 8 (9.09%) GitHub
6 8 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.95%) Amazon SageMaker
7 7 (7.95%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.82%) Azure AI
9 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.68%) dbt
9 5 (5.68%) SaaS
9 5 (5.68%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.55%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.59%) Delta Lake
1 19 (21.59%) DynamoDB
1 19 (21.59%) Metadata
1 19 (21.59%) Spark SQL
2 8 (9.09%) Pinecone
2 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.09%) Tableau
3 7 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.95%) Power BI
4 6 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.68%) Big Data
5 5 (5.68%) MySQL
6 4 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.55%) Looker
6 4 (4.55%) Weaviate
7 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.27%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.27%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (38.64%) MLflow
2 13 (14.77%) Git
General
1 56 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.55%) Finance
3 15 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (15.91%) Marketing
5 9 (10.23%) Retail
6 7 (7.95%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.55%) Banking
7 4 (4.55%) Law
7 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.41%) Electronics
8 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 19 (21.59%) Operations Engineer
3 17 (19.32%) Data Scientist
4 13 (14.77%) Senior
5 11 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Lead
7 6 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Head of AI
8 5 (5.68%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Data Scientist
9 4 (4.55%) Analyst
9 4 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (4.55%) Development Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Senior Python Developer
11 2 (2.27%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (77.27%) PyTorch
1 68 (77.27%) TensorFlow
2 58 (65.91%) Pandas
3 44 (50.00%) NumPy
4 25 (28.41%) PySpark
5 21 (23.86%) Keras
6 19 (21.59%) Lambda Expressions
6 19 (21.59%) Metaflow
6 19 (21.59%) YAML
7 18 (20.45%) Hugging Face
8 13 (14.77%) LangChain
9 12 (13.64%) FastAPI
9 12 (13.64%) REST
10 10 (11.36%) pytest
11 9 (10.23%) Django
12 7 (7.95%) Flask
12 7 (7.95%) Kafka
12 7 (7.95%) XGBoost
13 5 (5.68%) Google JAX
13 5 (5.68%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
3 9 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.55%) Hackathon
5 4 (4.55%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.41%) Robotics
7 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.14%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.14%) Genomics
8 1 (1.14%) Life Science
8 1 (1.14%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (97.73%) Machine Learning
2 74 (84.09%) AI
3 70 (79.55%) Data Science
4 57 (64.77%) MLOps
5 54 (61.36%) CI/CD
6 41 (46.59%) Containerisation
7 34 (38.64%) LLM
8 32 (36.36%) Visualisation
9 31 (35.23%) Analytics
10 28 (31.82%) Natural Language Processing
11 23 (26.14%) Deployment Automation
11 23 (26.14%) OO
11 23 (26.14%) Software Engineering
11 23 (26.14%) Unit Testing
12 22 (25.00%) DevOps
13 21 (23.86%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (21.59%) Data Engineering
14 19 (21.59%) Mentoring
14 19 (21.59%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 88 (100.00%) Python
2 55 (62.50%) SQL
3 8 (9.09%) Java
4 6 (6.82%) R
5 5 (5.68%) PHP
6 4 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (4.55%) Go
6 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.41%) Bicep
8 2 (2.27%) Bash
8 2 (2.27%) C
8 2 (2.27%) C++
9 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 24 (27.27%) Degree
2 19 (21.59%) Master's Degree
3 12 (13.64%) PhD
4 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) Postgraduate
6 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.55%) SLA
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 50 (56.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 26 (29.55%) Kubeflow
3 25 (28.41%) Terraform
4 4 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Databricks
2 13 (14.77%) OpenAI
3 7 (7.95%) Google
4 5 (5.68%) Alteryx
4 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.55%) Automation Anywhere
5 4 (4.55%) HubSpot
5 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.55%) Talend
5 4 (4.55%) UiPath
5 4 (4.55%) Zoho
6 3 (3.41%) SAP
7 1 (1.14%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.14%) Foundry