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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 593 702
Rank change year-on-year -80 +109 +25
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 114 87 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 1.01% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 39 44 37
10th Percentile £33,750 £44,125 £48,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £52,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +17.24% +0.35%
75th Percentile £92,500 £98,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,625 £138,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -19.23% +4.00%

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 11,911 8,626 16,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.67% 17.43% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8,640 5,540 11,238
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year - +6.15% -5.79%

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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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -85 106 £70,000 -17.65% 206
London -40 67 £107,500 +13.16% 123
Work from Home -32 34 £88,750 +51.06% 48
UK excluding London -109 33 £61,250 +16.67% 110
Midlands -24 15 £41,000 -23.36% 20
East Midlands -22 11 £41,000 - 10
North of England -70 7 £70,000 +27.27% 25
North West -23 5 £70,000 +27.27% 13
East of England -30 5 £55,000 +29.41% 12
South East -44 5 £70,000 +33.33% 22
West Midlands -31 4 £50,000 -6.54% 10
Yorkshire -49 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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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 18 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (14.91%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 83 (72.81%) AWS
2 59 (51.75%) Azure
3 51 (44.74%) GCP
4 26 (22.81%) Power Platform
5 19 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 18 (15.79%) dbt
7 15 (13.16%) Amazon S3
7 15 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (13.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (13.16%) Serverless
8 6 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (3.51%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (3.51%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.51%) Google Gemini
10 4 (3.51%) SaaS
11 3 (2.63%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (2.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.81%) Power BI
2 22 (19.30%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (16.67%) Tableau
4 16 (14.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (14.04%) BigQuery
5 15 (13.16%) Data Lake
5 15 (13.16%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (13.16%) Looker
5 15 (13.16%) Milvus
5 15 (13.16%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (5.26%) Big Data
6 6 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.39%) Pinecone
8 4 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.63%) MySQL
9 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.75%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (16.67%) Git
2 15 (13.16%) MLflow
3 7 (6.14%) GitLab
4 4 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.88%) JIRA
6 1 (0.88%) NUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Yeoman
General
1 56 (49.12%) Finance
2 38 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (23.68%) Banking
4 23 (20.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (17.54%) Law
5 20 (17.54%) Social Skills
6 19 (16.67%) Marketing
7 10 (8.77%) Retail
8 6 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (4.39%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.39%) Retail Banking
10 4 (3.51%) Legal
10 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.63%) Publishing
12 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (26.32%) Data Scientist
2 29 (25.44%) Senior
3 28 (24.56%) Lead
4 22 (19.30%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 17 (14.91%) Senior Data Scientist
6 16 (14.04%) Software Engineer
7 15 (13.16%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 15 (13.16%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (10.53%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 11 (9.65%) Developer
10 10 (8.77%) Lead Data Scientist
11 8 (7.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) Consultant
13 5 (4.39%) Data Engineer
14 4 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
14 4 (3.51%) Data Consultant
14 4 (3.51%) Data Science Consultant
14 4 (3.51%) Security Consultant
15 3 (2.63%) Junior
15 3 (2.63%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (75.44%) PyTorch
2 71 (62.28%) TensorFlow
3 44 (38.60%) Pandas
4 37 (32.46%) LangChain
5 32 (28.07%) NumPy
6 22 (19.30%) Kafka
7 21 (18.42%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (14.91%) pgvector
9 14 (12.28%) LangGraph
10 13 (11.40%) XGBoost
11 9 (7.89%) REST
12 8 (7.02%) Flask
12 8 (7.02%) Streamlit
12 8 (7.02%) Terraform
13 7 (6.14%) FastAPI
13 7 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (5.26%) Hugging Face
14 6 (5.26%) Matplotlib
15 5 (4.39%) AngularJS
15 5 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 50 (43.86%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.04%) Clustering
3 15 (13.16%) Public Cloud
4 14 (12.28%) Product Ownership
5 11 (9.65%) Mobile Banking
6 9 (7.89%) AI Agents
6 9 (7.89%) Algorithms
7 7 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (5.26%) Credit Risk
9 4 (3.51%) Blog
10 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.63%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.88%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.88%) Life Science
11 1 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (92.98%) Machine Learning
2 89 (78.07%) Data Science
3 86 (75.44%) AI
4 54 (47.37%) Generative AI
5 52 (45.61%) Analytics
6 49 (42.98%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 48 (42.11%) LLM
8 43 (37.72%) Prompt Engineering
9 42 (36.84%) CI/CD
10 39 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
10 39 (34.21%) MLOps
10 39 (34.21%) Statistics
11 38 (33.33%) Software Engineering
12 36 (31.58%) Decision-Making
13 35 (30.70%) Data Engineering
13 35 (30.70%) Use Case
14 33 (28.95%) Feature Engineering
15 31 (27.19%) Predictive Modelling
16 25 (21.93%) Business Intelligence
16 25 (21.93%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 107 (93.86%) Python
2 56 (49.12%) SQL
3 6 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.51%) Java
5 3 (2.63%) C++
5 3 (2.63%) R
6 1 (0.88%) Bash
6 1 (0.88%) C
6 1 (0.88%) C#
6 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.88%) Scala
6 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) Degree
2 16 (14.04%) Security Cleared
3 15 (13.16%) PhD
4 9 (7.89%) Master's Degree
5 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.26%) DBS Check
6 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.63%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.54%) GDPR
2 15 (13.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 8 (7.02%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.39%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 14 (12.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.39%) Ansible
2 5 (4.39%) Grafana
2 5 (4.39%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (22.81%) Databricks
2 15 (13.16%) Cloudera
2 15 (13.16%) Dell
3 13 (11.40%) OpenAI
4 12 (10.53%) Google
5 11 (9.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.75%) Foundry
6 2 (1.75%) Mistral
6 2 (1.75%) Workday
7 1 (0.88%) Cognizant