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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 727 593 684
Rank change year-on-year -134 +91 -4
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 87 76 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.92% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33 35 33
10th Percentile £38,800 £40,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% -13.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £93,750 £96,875 £102,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £97,500 £146,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -

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 12,026 8,292 15,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.10% 16.96% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,430 5,297 9,582
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -122 80 £73,000 +12.31% 18
London -51 57 £83,750 -8.22% 10
Work from Home -33 31 £107,500 +82.98% 7
UK excluding London -157 18 £62,500 +19.05% 10
Midlands -47 6 £61,250 +14.49% 2
South East -56 6 £70,000 +51.35% 5
East Midlands -37 4 £50,500 - 1
North of England -75 4 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North West -35 3 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -45 2 £103,750 +93.93% 1
Yorkshire -38 1 - -
East of England -53 1 £55,000 -2.22% 1
Northern Ireland - 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 3 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 60 (68.97%) AWS
2 39 (44.83%) Azure
3 32 (36.78%) GCP
4 12 (13.79%) Amazon S3
4 12 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (13.79%) Serverless
5 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (4.60%) Azure AI
7 4 (4.60%) SaaS
7 4 (4.60%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (3.45%) dbt
8 3 (3.45%) GitHub
8 3 (3.45%) Google Gemini
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.30%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.90%) Power BI
3 5 (5.75%) Big Data
3 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.75%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.60%) Pinecone
4 4 (4.60%) Tableau
5 3 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.45%) MySQL
6 2 (2.30%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.30%) Power Query
6 2 (2.30%) Redis
6 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.30%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.15%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 19 (21.84%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) GitLab
3 2 (2.30%) MLflow
4 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) NUnit
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.15%) Yeoman
General
1 52 (59.77%) Finance
2 30 (34.48%) Banking
3 23 (26.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
4 20 (22.99%) Law
5 19 (21.84%) Marketing
6 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.75%) Retail Banking
8 4 (4.60%) Legal
8 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.45%) Publishing
10 2 (2.30%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.30%) Aviation
10 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Lead
2 19 (21.84%) Software Engineer
3 18 (20.69%) Data Scientist
4 15 (17.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 15 (17.24%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 13 (14.94%) Senior
6 11 (12.64%) Senior Data Scientist
7 8 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Lead Data Scientist
9 6 (6.90%) Consultant
9 6 (6.90%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Data Consultant
10 4 (4.60%) Data Science Consultant
10 4 (4.60%) Security Consultant
11 2 (2.30%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 2 (2.30%) Backend Developer
11 2 (2.30%) Integration Developer
11 2 (2.30%) Python Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (71.26%) PyTorch
2 59 (67.82%) TensorFlow
3 36 (41.38%) Pandas
4 27 (31.03%) NumPy
5 24 (27.59%) LangChain
6 17 (19.54%) LangGraph
7 9 (10.34%) XGBoost
8 8 (9.20%) FastAPI
8 8 (9.20%) Flask
8 8 (9.20%) REST
9 7 (8.05%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (6.90%) Terraform
11 5 (5.75%) Kafka
11 5 (5.75%) LlamaIndex
11 5 (5.75%) PySpark
11 5 (5.75%) Streamlit
12 4 (4.60%) Hugging Face
12 4 (4.60%) Keras
12 4 (4.60%) pytest
13 3 (3.45%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 36 (41.38%) Cloud Native
2 19 (21.84%) Product Ownership
3 11 (12.64%) Mobile Banking
4 8 (9.20%) AI Agents
4 8 (9.20%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.90%) Credit Risk
6 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.60%) Blog
8 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.45%) Hackathon
9 2 (2.30%) CUDA
9 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.30%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (1.15%) Acoustics
10 1 (1.15%) Clustering
10 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.15%) Social Media
10 1 (1.15%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (87.36%) Machine Learning
2 65 (74.71%) AI
3 63 (72.41%) Data Science
4 43 (49.43%) CI/CD
4 43 (49.43%) Software Engineering
5 42 (48.28%) LLM
6 38 (43.68%) Generative AI
7 37 (42.53%) Decision-Making
8 36 (41.38%) MLOps
9 35 (40.23%) Analytics
10 30 (34.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 28 (32.18%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (32.18%) Statistics
12 25 (28.74%) Computer Science
12 25 (28.74%) Prompt Engineering
12 25 (28.74%) Test Automation
13 23 (26.44%) Deep Learning
14 22 (25.29%) Data Engineering
14 22 (25.29%) Use Case
15 20 (22.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 81 (93.10%) Python
2 36 (41.38%) SQL
3 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.60%) Java
5 3 (3.45%) C++
5 3 (3.45%) R
6 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) C
7 1 (1.15%) C#
7 1 (1.15%) Scala
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (31.03%) Degree
2 16 (18.39%) Security Cleared
3 14 (16.09%) PhD
4 8 (9.20%) Master's Degree
5 6 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.75%) EU AI Act
2 5 (5.75%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.30%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Ansible
2 3 (3.45%) Grafana
2 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.15%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (13.79%) OpenAI
2 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.60%) Databricks
3 4 (4.60%) Google
4 2 (2.30%) Foundry
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle
4 2 (2.30%) Thales
4 2 (2.30%) Workday
5 1 (1.15%) Mistral