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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 640 662
Rank change year-on-year +52 +22 +169
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 65 59 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% 0.51% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 28 38 28
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £52,625
25th Percentile £50,938 £59,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +5.08% -4.84%
75th Percentile £75,938 £93,750 £84,375
90th Percentile £117,250 £100,500 £103,125
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 7,080 11,547 13,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,272 6,787 11,241
10th Percentile £35,760 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £109,875 £109,250 £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 14 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 14 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 +77 63 £70,000 -17.65% 237
London +70 44 £75,000 -18.42% 60
UK excluding London +52 19 £50,000 -23.08% 224
Work from Home +54 13 £70,000 +7.69% 53
South East +40 8 £50,000 -20.00% 58
East of England +28 5 £56,250 - 33
South West +10 3 £42,500 -5.56% 28
North West +18 2 £72,500 -21.62% 19
North of England +3 2 £72,500 -14.71% 48
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 7
Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 30

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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 13 (20.00%) Appian
2 11 (16.92%) Apache Spark
3 8 (12.31%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.62%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (72.31%) Azure
2 31 (47.69%) AWS
3 27 (41.54%) GCP
4 15 (23.08%) Azure AI
5 12 (18.46%) Azure Machine Learning
6 9 (13.85%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (13.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (13.85%) Power Automate
7 8 (12.31%) GitHub
7 8 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
10 5 (7.69%) dbt
10 5 (7.69%) SaaS
11 4 (6.15%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (6.15%) Fivetran
11 4 (6.15%) Google Data Studio
11 4 (6.15%) Prefect
11 4 (6.15%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) Pinecone
1 13 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.92%) Tableau
3 8 (12.31%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (10.77%) Big Data
5 6 (9.23%) Power BI
6 5 (7.69%) MySQL
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (6.15%) BigQuery
7 4 (6.15%) Hadoop
7 4 (6.15%) Looker
7 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
7 4 (6.15%) Weaviate
8 1 (1.54%) Mixpanel
8 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (32.31%) MLflow
2 9 (13.85%) Git
General
1 38 (58.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (35.38%) Finance
3 14 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.54%) Marketing
4 9 (13.85%) Retail
5 7 (10.77%) Manufacturing
6 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.62%) Electronics
8 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.08%) Banking
9 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.08%) Law
10 1 (1.54%) Digital Economy
10 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Senior
2 14 (21.54%) Data Scientist
3 12 (18.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) Developer
5 7 (10.77%) Lead
6 6 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Consultant
6 6 (9.23%) Data Consultant
6 6 (9.23%) Data Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Data Science Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Development Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (75.38%) PyTorch
1 49 (75.38%) TensorFlow
2 45 (69.23%) Pandas
3 30 (46.15%) NumPy
4 17 (26.15%) FastAPI
4 17 (26.15%) LangChain
4 17 (26.15%) REST
5 16 (24.62%) Hugging Face
6 14 (21.54%) Django
7 12 (18.46%) Flask
7 12 (18.46%) pytest
8 10 (15.38%) RESTful
9 9 (13.85%) Faiss
9 9 (13.85%) JWT
9 9 (13.85%) OAuth
9 9 (13.85%) OpenAPI
9 9 (13.85%) Swagger
9 9 (13.85%) Web Services
10 8 (12.31%) PySpark
10 8 (12.31%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Algorithms
2 10 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (13.85%) Cloud Native
3 9 (13.85%) Low-Code
4 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.15%) Hackathon
5 3 (4.62%) Life Science
6 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.54%) Genomics
7 1 (1.54%) Omics
7 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.54%) Social Network
7 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (96.92%) Machine Learning
2 55 (84.62%) AI
3 47 (72.31%) Data Science
4 41 (63.08%) LLM
5 34 (52.31%) MLOps
6 30 (46.15%) Analytics
6 30 (46.15%) CI/CD
7 23 (35.38%) Containerisation
7 23 (35.38%) Natural Language Processing
8 22 (33.85%) Data Engineering
8 22 (33.85%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (32.31%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 20 (30.77%) Validation
11 19 (29.23%) Generative AI
12 18 (27.69%) Prompt Engineering
13 17 (26.15%) Decision-Making
13 17 (26.15%) ETL
14 16 (24.62%) Feature Engineering
14 16 (24.62%) Open Source
14 16 (24.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 65 (100.00%) Python
2 36 (55.38%) SQL
3 12 (18.46%) R
4 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.23%) Java
6 5 (7.69%) PHP
7 4 (6.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (6.15%) Go
7 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.62%) Bicep
9 1 (1.54%) C
9 1 (1.54%) C++
9 1 (1.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (35.38%) Degree
2 14 (21.54%) Master's Degree
3 7 (10.77%) PhD
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.15%) SLA
3 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 34 (52.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Ansible
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 22 (33.85%) OpenAI
2 9 (13.85%) Automation Anywhere
2 9 (13.85%) UiPath
3 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.23%) Databricks
4 6 (9.23%) Google
5 5 (7.69%) Alteryx
5 5 (7.69%) Foundry
6 4 (6.15%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (6.15%) Fortinet
6 4 (6.15%) HubSpot
6 4 (6.15%) Palo Alto
6 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
6 4 (6.15%) Talend
6 4 (6.15%) Zoho
7 3 (4.62%) SAP
8 1 (1.54%) Amplitude