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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 569 801
Rank change year-on-year -8 +232 +59
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 139 83 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.091%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.55% 0.96% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 69 47 30
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +30.77% -13.79%
75th Percentile £41,250 £100,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £117,000 £115,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £76,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -50.82% +17.31% +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 8,976 8,636 20,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 19.75% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,606 6,233 15,765
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +1 125 £37,500 -56.01% 80
UK excluding London +1 77 £37,500 -50.82% 66
London +2 54 £75,000 -21.05% 33
North of England -12 33 £37,500 -55.88% 18
Midlands -15 17 £37,500 -29.91% 11
North West +5 16 £37,500 -56.01% 10
Work from Home -11 13 £70,000 +9.38% 25
Yorkshire -46 12 £37,500 -41.41% 6
West Midlands -16 10 £37,500 -29.91% 3
East of England -16 9 - - 5
East Midlands - 7 £37,500 - 8
Scotland +2 6 £37,500 -46.43% 6
South West -44 6 £37,500 -38.78% 8
South East -10 5 £46,250 -53.75% 17
North East - 5 £37,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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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 (38.85%) Jupyter
2 28 (20.14%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (20.14%) Apache Spark
3 15 (10.79%) Appian
Applications
1 55 (39.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.72%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 105 (75.54%) AWS
2 61 (43.88%) Azure
3 54 (38.85%) Cloud Computing
4 40 (28.78%) GCP
5 29 (20.86%) Power Platform
6 25 (17.99%) Snowflake
7 23 (16.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (16.55%) dbt
8 15 (10.79%) Azure AI
9 13 (9.35%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (7.91%) Power Automate
12 9 (6.47%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (3.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.88%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.88%) Prefect
14 4 (2.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.86%) Power BI
2 27 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (18.71%) Tableau
4 25 (17.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (16.55%) BigQuery
5 23 (16.55%) Data Lake
5 23 (16.55%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (16.55%) Looker
5 23 (16.55%) Snowflake Schema
6 18 (12.95%) Pinecone
7 11 (7.91%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.60%) Big Data
9 4 (2.88%) Weaviate
10 3 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.16%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.16%) MySQL
11 2 (1.44%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.72%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 54 (38.85%) Visual Studio Code
2 44 (31.65%) MLflow
3 7 (5.04%) GitLab
4 6 (4.32%) Git
5 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.72%) JIRA
General
1 77 (55.40%) Finance
2 60 (43.17%) Retail
3 54 (38.85%) Manufacturing
4 39 (28.06%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (15.11%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.32%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.16%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Digital Economy
9 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (36.69%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 51 (36.69%) Programmer
1 51 (36.69%) Trainee
1 51 (36.69%) Trainee Programmer
2 37 (26.62%) Senior
3 23 (16.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 23 (16.55%) Systems Engineer
4 18 (12.95%) Data Scientist
5 14 (10.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (7.91%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.91%) Developer
6 11 (7.91%) Lead
7 10 (7.19%) Senior Data Scientist
8 7 (5.04%) Machine Learning Scientist
9 6 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Lead Data Scientist
10 5 (3.60%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.88%) Consultant
11 4 (2.88%) Development Manager
11 4 (2.88%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (66.91%) Pandas
2 79 (56.83%) NumPy
3 77 (55.40%) PyTorch
4 68 (48.92%) Hugging Face
5 65 (46.76%) TensorFlow
6 58 (41.73%) Matplotlib
7 54 (38.85%) Streamlit
8 34 (24.46%) LangChain
9 29 (20.86%) Kafka
10 25 (17.99%) LlamaIndex
10 25 (17.99%) pgvector
11 21 (15.11%) REST
12 17 (12.23%) FastAPI
13 15 (10.79%) Django
14 13 (9.35%) Flask
15 12 (8.63%) pytest
15 12 (8.63%) RESTful
16 11 (7.91%) OAuth
16 11 (7.91%) Swagger
16 11 (7.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (43.17%) Algorithms
2 31 (22.30%) Cloud Native
3 24 (17.27%) Clustering
4 23 (16.55%) Public Cloud
5 11 (7.91%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (7.91%) Low-Code
6 9 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.88%) Hackathon
8 4 (2.88%) Life Science
9 3 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.72%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.72%) Social Media
10 1 (0.72%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (99.28%) Machine Learning
2 126 (90.65%) AI
3 104 (74.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 99 (71.22%) Prompt Engineering
5 95 (68.35%) LLM
6 72 (51.80%) Workflow
7 66 (47.48%) Visualisation
8 65 (46.76%) OO
9 63 (45.32%) Data Science
10 60 (43.17%) Neural Network
11 59 (42.45%) Conversational UI
12 55 (39.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 54 (38.85%) Customer Service
13 54 (38.85%) Data Privacy
13 54 (38.85%) OOP
13 54 (38.85%) Sentiment Analysis
14 48 (34.53%) Generative AI
15 45 (32.37%) Analytics
15 45 (32.37%) Data Engineering
16 41 (29.50%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 138 (99.28%) Python
2 54 (38.85%) SQL
3 14 (10.07%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.47%) R
5 6 (4.32%) Java
6 4 (2.88%) Go
6 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.88%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.16%) PHP
8 2 (1.44%) C++
9 1 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (38.85%) AWS Certification
1 54 (38.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 20 (14.39%) Degree
3 9 (6.47%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.32%) DBS Check
5 5 (3.60%) PhD
5 5 (3.60%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (16.55%) GDPR
2 15 (10.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.88%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (24.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (23.02%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.19%) Terraform
3 9 (6.47%) Ansible
4 5 (3.60%) Grafana
4 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.44%) Argo
Vendors
1 59 (42.45%) Microsoft
2 34 (24.46%) Databricks
3 24 (17.27%) OpenAI
4 23 (16.55%) Cloudera
4 23 (16.55%) Dell
5 11 (7.91%) Automation Anywhere
5 11 (7.91%) UiPath
6 9 (6.47%) Google
7 4 (2.88%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.88%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.88%) Foundry
7 4 (2.88%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.72%) Cognizant