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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 659 648
Rank change year-on-year +111 -11 +188
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 86 65 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 0.52% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 40 45 42
10th Percentile £43,250 £50,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,188 £60,000 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.81% -6.77%
75th Percentile £85,625 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,750 £128,500 £100,816
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -21.15% +6.12% -2.00%

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 6,962 12,468 12,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.96% 21.57% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5,238 7,626 10,573
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 15 December 2025.

Salary histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

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Top 15 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 15 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 +105 84 £70,000 -17.65% 55
London +64 47 £75,000 -18.92% 32
UK excluding London +88 38 £51,250 -21.15% 34
Work from Home +79 20 £65,000 -3.70% 50
North of England +38 11 £55,000 -29.03% 4
South East +38 9 £50,000 -20.00% 8
Midlands - 7 £45,000 -
North West +33 6 £62,500 +25.00% 3
East of England +28 6 £56,250 - 6
South West +16 4 £42,500 -5.56% 11
Yorkshire -16 4 £55,000 -35.29%
East Midlands - 4 - -
West Midlands - 3 £45,000 -
North East - 1 - - 1
Wales - 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 31 (36.05%) Apache Spark
2 12 (13.95%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (10.47%) Appian
4 3 (3.49%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (60.47%) AWS
2 43 (50.00%) Azure
3 31 (36.05%) GCP
4 19 (22.09%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (22.09%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (22.09%) Amazon S3
5 10 (11.63%) Azure Machine Learning
6 8 (9.30%) Azure AI
6 8 (9.30%) GitHub
6 8 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (9.30%) Prefect
7 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.98%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.81%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.81%) dbt
9 5 (5.81%) Power Automate
9 5 (5.81%) SaaS
9 5 (5.81%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.09%) Delta Lake
1 19 (22.09%) DynamoDB
1 19 (22.09%) Metadata
1 19 (22.09%) Spark SQL
2 9 (10.47%) Pinecone
2 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
3 8 (9.30%) Tableau
4 7 (8.14%) Power BI
5 6 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.81%) Big Data
6 5 (5.81%) MySQL
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.65%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.65%) Looker
7 4 (4.65%) Weaviate
8 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.33%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 36 (41.86%) MLflow
2 12 (13.95%) Git
General
1 57 (66.28%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.91%) Finance
3 14 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Marketing
4 9 (10.47%) Retail
5 7 (8.14%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.49%) Electronics
7 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.33%) Banking
8 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.33%) Law
9 1 (1.16%) Digital Economy
9 1 (1.16%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 19 (22.09%) Operations Engineer
3 18 (20.93%) Data Scientist
4 15 (17.44%) Senior
5 11 (12.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Lead
7 6 (6.98%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Senior Data Scientist
8 5 (5.81%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Development Manager
9 4 (4.65%) Head of AI
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Data Consultant
10 3 (3.49%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (79.07%) TensorFlow
2 67 (77.91%) PyTorch
3 58 (67.44%) Pandas
4 43 (50.00%) NumPy
5 24 (27.91%) PySpark
6 22 (25.58%) Keras
7 19 (22.09%) Lambda Expressions
7 19 (22.09%) Metaflow
7 19 (22.09%) YAML
8 18 (20.93%) Hugging Face
9 14 (16.28%) LangChain
10 13 (15.12%) FastAPI
10 13 (15.12%) REST
11 10 (11.63%) Django
11 10 (11.63%) pytest
12 8 (9.30%) Flask
13 7 (8.14%) Kafka
13 7 (8.14%) XGBoost
14 6 (6.98%) RESTful
15 5 (5.81%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.09%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (16.28%) Algorithms
3 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
4 8 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (8.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (5.81%) Low-Code
7 4 (4.65%) Hackathon
8 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
9 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
9 2 (2.33%) Life Science
9 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.33%) Robotics
9 2 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.16%) Genomics
10 1 (1.16%) Omics
10 1 (1.16%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (97.67%) Machine Learning
2 71 (82.56%) AI
3 68 (79.07%) Data Science
4 57 (66.28%) MLOps
5 52 (60.47%) CI/CD
6 42 (48.84%) Containerisation
7 35 (40.70%) LLM
8 31 (36.05%) Visualisation
9 30 (34.88%) Analytics
10 27 (31.40%) Natural Language Processing
11 24 (27.91%) Deployment Automation
11 24 (27.91%) OO
12 23 (26.74%) Unit Testing
13 21 (24.42%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (24.42%) DevOps
14 20 (23.26%) Data Engineering
14 20 (23.26%) Information Security
15 19 (22.09%) OOP
15 19 (22.09%) Software Engineering
15 19 (22.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (65.12%) SQL
3 7 (8.14%) Java
3 7 (8.14%) R
4 5 (5.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.81%) PHP
5 4 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.65%) Go
5 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.49%) Bicep
7 2 (2.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.16%) C
8 1 (1.16%) C++
8 1 (1.16%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (26.74%) Degree
2 17 (19.77%) Master's Degree
3 9 (10.47%) PhD
4 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Postgraduate
5 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) MCP
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.65%) SLA
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 51 (59.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 25 (29.07%) Kubeflow
3 24 (27.91%) Terraform
4 4 (4.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (25.58%) Databricks
2 15 (17.44%) OpenAI
3 6 (6.98%) Google
4 5 (5.81%) Alteryx
4 5 (5.81%) Automation Anywhere
4 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.81%) UiPath
5 4 (4.65%) HubSpot
5 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.65%) Talend
5 4 (4.65%) Zoho
6 3 (3.49%) SAP
7 2 (2.33%) Foundry
8 1 (1.16%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.16%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto