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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 577 735
Rank change year-on-year -40 +158 +26
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 151 101 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 1.16% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 80 48 31
10th Percentile - £44,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £55,313 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £85,253 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -56.01% +17.59% +3.57%
75th Percentile £70,000 £98,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,250 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -31.82% -18.52% +8.00%

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 10,576 8,719 16,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 17.61% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,812 5,725 12,012
10th Percentile £40,775 £38,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £106,250
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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -29 137 £37,500 -56.01% 134
UK excluding London -65 73 £37,500 -31.82% 97
London -13 64 £107,500 +13.16% 66
Work from Home -28 33 £88,750 +43.15% 40
North of England -24 32 £37,500 -41.41% 22
Midlands -19 19 £37,500 -29.91% 11
North West +4 16 £37,500 -42.31% 13
Yorkshire -23 12 £37,500 -36.97% 6
East Midlands -22 10 £39,250 - 6
West Midlands -23 9 £37,500 -29.91% 5
East of England -24 8 £55,000 +29.41% 9
Scotland +11 5 £37,500 - 1
South West -69 5 £37,500 -18.92% 13
North East -49 4 £37,500 - 5
South East -41 3 £70,000 -8.20% 30
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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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 47 (31.13%) Jupyter
2 25 (16.56%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (15.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 49 (32.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 124 (82.12%) AWS
2 62 (41.06%) Azure
3 55 (36.42%) GCP
4 47 (31.13%) Cloud Computing
5 32 (21.19%) Power Platform
6 27 (17.88%) Snowflake
7 25 (16.56%) dbt
8 23 (15.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (6.62%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (6.62%) Serverless
10 6 (3.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (3.31%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (2.65%) SaaS
13 3 (1.99%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (1.99%) GitHub
14 2 (1.32%) Amazon Bedrock
14 2 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (1.32%) OpenShift
14 2 (1.32%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.19%) Power BI
2 30 (19.87%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (16.56%) Tableau
4 24 (15.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (15.89%) BigQuery
5 23 (15.23%) Data Lake
5 23 (15.23%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (15.23%) Looker
5 23 (15.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.31%) Pinecone
8 4 (2.65%) Big Data
8 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.99%) MySQL
10 2 (1.32%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.32%) Redis
10 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (31.13%) Visual Studio Code
2 25 (16.56%) MLflow
3 17 (11.26%) Git
4 8 (5.30%) GitLab
5 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.66%) JIRA
6 1 (0.66%) NUnit
6 1 (0.66%) Yeoman
General
1 89 (58.94%) Finance
2 53 (35.10%) Retail
3 48 (31.79%) Manufacturing
4 43 (28.48%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (13.25%) Banking
6 14 (9.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (9.27%) Social Skills
7 13 (8.61%) Law
8 12 (7.95%) Marketing
9 6 (3.97%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (3.31%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.32%) Publishing
12 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 44 (29.14%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 44 (29.14%) Programmer
1 44 (29.14%) Trainee
1 44 (29.14%) Trainee Programmer
2 34 (22.52%) Senior
3 28 (18.54%) Data Scientist
4 23 (15.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (15.23%) Systems Engineer
5 22 (14.57%) Lead
6 17 (11.26%) Senior Data Scientist
7 15 (9.93%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 12 (7.95%) Developer
8 12 (7.95%) Software Engineer
9 11 (7.28%) Lead Data Scientist
10 10 (6.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.65%) Consultant
12 4 (2.65%) Security Consultant
12 4 (2.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (54.97%) PyTorch
2 81 (53.64%) Pandas
3 71 (47.02%) NumPy
4 67 (44.37%) TensorFlow
5 50 (33.11%) Hugging Face
5 50 (33.11%) Matplotlib
6 48 (31.79%) Streamlit
7 41 (27.15%) LangChain
8 31 (20.53%) Kafka
9 27 (17.88%) LlamaIndex
10 25 (16.56%) pgvector
11 13 (8.61%) XGBoost
12 12 (7.95%) LangGraph
13 10 (6.62%) REST
14 8 (5.30%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (3.97%) AngularJS
15 6 (3.97%) FastAPI
15 6 (3.97%) Flask
15 6 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
16 4 (2.65%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 51 (33.77%) Algorithms
2 44 (29.14%) Cloud Native
3 24 (15.89%) Clustering
4 23 (15.23%) Public Cloud
5 10 (6.62%) Product Ownership
6 8 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.64%) Mobile Banking
8 6 (3.97%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.97%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.32%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.66%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.66%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.66%) Blog
11 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.66%) Life Science
11 1 (0.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (94.70%) Machine Learning
2 128 (84.77%) AI
3 93 (61.59%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 85 (56.29%) Prompt Engineering
5 84 (55.63%) Data Science
6 81 (53.64%) LLM
7 60 (39.74%) Visualisation
8 56 (37.09%) Neural Network
9 54 (35.76%) Generative AI
10 53 (35.10%) Analytics
10 53 (35.10%) Conversational UI
11 50 (33.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 50 (33.11%) Workflow
12 49 (32.45%) Data Privacy
12 49 (32.45%) OO
13 48 (31.79%) Customer Service
13 48 (31.79%) OOP
14 47 (31.13%) Sentiment Analysis
15 41 (27.15%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (25.83%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 147 (97.35%) Python
2 61 (40.40%) SQL
3 7 (4.64%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.99%) C++
4 3 (1.99%) Java
4 3 (1.99%) R
5 1 (0.66%) Bash
5 1 (0.66%) C
5 1 (0.66%) C#
5 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (31.13%) AWS Certification
1 47 (31.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 23 (15.23%) Degree
3 13 (8.61%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.95%) PhD
5 8 (5.30%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.97%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.54%) GDPR
2 23 (15.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 7 (4.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.31%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 16 (10.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (9.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.30%) Terraform
3 6 (3.97%) Ansible
3 6 (3.97%) Grafana
3 6 (3.97%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 49 (32.45%) Microsoft
2 31 (20.53%) Databricks
3 23 (15.23%) Cloudera
3 23 (15.23%) Dell
4 12 (7.95%) Google
5 11 (7.28%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.66%) Cognizant