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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 582 793
Rank change year-on-year +11 +211 +59
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 141 81 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.090%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.56% 0.93% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 70 46 29
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +30.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £41,250 £101,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £117,500 £111,000
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 9,017 8,710 20,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 20.06% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,618 6,131 15,719
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,288 £51,000 £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 14 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 14 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 +9 126 £37,500 -56.01% 84
UK excluding London -27 77 £37,500 -50.82% 70
London -1 55 £70,000 -26.32% 31
North of England -2 33 £37,500 -55.88% 21
Midlands -17 17 £37,500 -29.91% 11
North West +12 16 £37,500 -56.01% 10
Work from Home -21 15 £70,000 +9.38% 32
Yorkshire -55 12 £37,500 -41.41% 8
West Midlands -14 10 £37,500 -29.91% 3
East of England -17 9 - - 5
East Midlands - 7 £37,500 - 8
Scotland +1 6 £37,500 -46.43% 6
South West -42 6 £37,500 -38.78% 10
South East -16 5 £46,250 -53.75% 15
North East - 5 £37,500 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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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 (38.30%) Jupyter
2 28 (19.86%) Apache Spark
3 27 (19.15%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (9.93%) Appian
Applications
1 55 (39.01%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.71%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 105 (74.47%) AWS
2 61 (43.26%) Azure
3 54 (38.30%) Cloud Computing
4 40 (28.37%) GCP
5 29 (20.57%) Power Platform
6 25 (17.73%) Snowflake
7 23 (16.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (16.31%) dbt
8 15 (10.64%) Azure AI
9 13 (9.22%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (8.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (7.80%) Power Automate
12 9 (6.38%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (4.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (2.84%) Amazon SageMaker
15 4 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (2.84%) Serverless
16 3 (2.13%) Datadog
16 3 (2.13%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.57%) Power BI
2 27 (19.15%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (18.44%) Tableau
4 25 (17.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (16.31%) BigQuery
5 23 (16.31%) Data Lake
5 23 (16.31%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (16.31%) Looker
5 23 (16.31%) Snowflake Schema
6 17 (12.06%) Pinecone
7 11 (7.80%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.55%) Big Data
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.13%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.13%) MySQL
9 3 (2.13%) Weaviate
10 2 (1.42%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.71%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 54 (38.30%) Visual Studio Code
2 44 (31.21%) MLflow
3 8 (5.67%) GitLab
4 7 (4.96%) Git
5 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 79 (56.03%) Finance
2 60 (42.55%) Retail
3 54 (38.30%) Manufacturing
4 40 (28.37%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (14.89%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.84%) Marketing
9 2 (1.42%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Digital Economy
10 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 51 (36.17%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 51 (36.17%) Programmer
1 51 (36.17%) Trainee
1 51 (36.17%) Trainee Programmer
2 38 (26.95%) Senior
3 23 (16.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 23 (16.31%) Systems Engineer
4 19 (13.48%) Data Scientist
5 14 (9.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (8.51%) Developer
7 11 (7.80%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (7.80%) Lead
7 11 (7.80%) Senior Data Scientist
8 7 (4.96%) Machine Learning Scientist
9 6 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 6 (4.26%) Lead Data Scientist
10 5 (3.55%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 4 (2.84%) Data Consultant
11 4 (2.84%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (67.38%) Pandas
2 79 (56.03%) NumPy
3 77 (54.61%) PyTorch
4 68 (48.23%) Hugging Face
5 64 (45.39%) TensorFlow
6 58 (41.13%) Matplotlib
7 54 (38.30%) Streamlit
8 34 (24.11%) LangChain
9 30 (21.28%) Kafka
10 25 (17.73%) LlamaIndex
10 25 (17.73%) pgvector
11 21 (14.89%) REST
12 16 (11.35%) FastAPI
13 14 (9.93%) Django
14 13 (9.22%) Flask
15 12 (8.51%) pytest
15 12 (8.51%) RESTful
15 12 (8.51%) XGBoost
16 11 (7.80%) OAuth
16 11 (7.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (42.55%) Algorithms
2 30 (21.28%) Cloud Native
3 24 (17.02%) Clustering
4 23 (16.31%) Public Cloud
5 11 (7.80%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (7.80%) Low-Code
6 9 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.84%) Life Science
9 3 (2.13%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.13%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.71%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.71%) Social Media
10 1 (0.71%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (98.58%) Machine Learning
2 126 (89.36%) AI
3 103 (73.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 98 (69.50%) Prompt Engineering
5 94 (66.67%) LLM
6 71 (50.35%) Workflow
7 66 (46.81%) Visualisation
8 65 (46.10%) Data Science
8 65 (46.10%) OO
9 60 (42.55%) Neural Network
10 59 (41.84%) Conversational UI
11 55 (39.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 54 (38.30%) Customer Service
12 54 (38.30%) Data Privacy
12 54 (38.30%) OOP
12 54 (38.30%) Sentiment Analysis
13 48 (34.04%) Generative AI
14 45 (31.91%) Data Engineering
15 44 (31.21%) Analytics
16 41 (29.08%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (99.29%) Python
2 55 (39.01%) SQL
3 14 (9.93%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.38%) R
5 5 (3.55%) Java
6 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.13%) Go
7 3 (2.13%) PHP
7 3 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.42%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) Bash
9 1 (0.71%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (38.30%) AWS Certification
1 54 (38.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 21 (14.89%) Degree
3 9 (6.38%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.26%) DBS Check
4 6 (4.26%) PhD
4 6 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (16.31%) GDPR
2 15 (10.64%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (24.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (22.70%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.09%) Terraform
3 9 (6.38%) Ansible
4 6 (4.26%) Grafana
4 6 (4.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 59 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 34 (24.11%) Databricks
3 23 (16.31%) Cloudera
3 23 (16.31%) Dell
3 23 (16.31%) OpenAI
4 11 (7.80%) Automation Anywhere
4 11 (7.80%) UiPath
5 9 (6.38%) Google
6 4 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.84%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.84%) Foundry
6 4 (2.84%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.71%) Cognizant