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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 692 590 713
Rank change year-on-year -102 +123 -17
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 112 85 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.099% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 0.99% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 35 41 35
10th Percentile £38,850 £43,750 £47,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +17.24% -1.69%
75th Percentile £103,125 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,500 £142,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £52,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +30.95% -17.65% +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 11,823 8,620 16,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.43% 17.38% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8,520 5,518 10,914
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -90 105 £70,000 -17.65% 192
London -18 68 £107,500 +13.16% 114
Work from Home -22 35 £88,750 +47.92% 162
UK excluding London -138 31 £68,750 +30.95% 109
Midlands -33 12 £61,250 +14.49% 16
East Midlands -29 10 £50,500 - 10
North of England -59 7 £70,000 +27.27% 25
South East -36 6 £70,000 +40.00% 25
North West -21 5 £70,000 +27.27% 11
East of England -28 5 £55,000 +29.41% 12
West Midlands -41 2 £103,750 +93.93% 6
Yorkshire -51 2 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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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 19 (16.96%) Apache Spark
2 18 (16.07%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 80 (71.43%) AWS
2 60 (53.57%) Azure
3 52 (46.43%) GCP
4 26 (23.21%) Power Platform
5 19 (16.96%) Snowflake
6 18 (16.07%) dbt
7 15 (13.39%) Amazon S3
7 15 (13.39%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (13.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (13.39%) Serverless
8 6 (5.36%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (3.57%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.57%) Google Gemini
10 4 (3.57%) SaaS
11 3 (2.68%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (2.68%) GitHub
12 2 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.21%) Power BI
2 22 (19.64%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (16.96%) Tableau
4 16 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (14.29%) BigQuery
5 15 (13.39%) Data Lake
5 15 (13.39%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (13.39%) Looker
5 15 (13.39%) Milvus
5 15 (13.39%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (5.36%) Big Data
6 6 (5.36%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.46%) Pinecone
8 4 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.68%) MySQL
9 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.79%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (16.96%) Git
2 17 (15.18%) MLflow
3 6 (5.36%) GitLab
4 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.89%) JIRA
5 1 (0.89%) NUnit
5 1 (0.89%) Yeoman
General
1 52 (46.43%) Finance
2 38 (33.93%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (25.00%) Banking
4 23 (20.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
6 20 (17.86%) Law
7 19 (16.96%) Marketing
8 6 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (5.36%) Retail
9 5 (4.46%) Retail Banking
10 4 (3.57%) Legal
10 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.68%) Publishing
12 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.79%) Aviation
13 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (26.79%) Data Scientist
2 29 (25.89%) Senior
3 28 (25.00%) Lead
4 22 (19.64%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 17 (15.18%) Senior Data Scientist
5 17 (15.18%) Software Engineer
6 15 (13.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 15 (13.39%) Systems Engineer
7 13 (11.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 10 (8.93%) Lead Data Scientist
9 8 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Developer
11 6 (5.36%) Consultant
12 5 (4.46%) Data Engineer
13 4 (3.57%) Data Consultant
13 4 (3.57%) Data Science Consultant
13 4 (3.57%) Security Consultant
14 2 (1.79%) Principal Engineer
14 2 (1.79%) Python Developer
14 2 (1.79%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (78.57%) PyTorch
2 74 (66.07%) TensorFlow
3 42 (37.50%) Pandas
4 38 (33.93%) LangChain
5 30 (26.79%) NumPy
6 21 (18.75%) Kafka
6 21 (18.75%) LlamaIndex
7 17 (15.18%) pgvector
8 15 (13.39%) LangGraph
9 13 (11.61%) XGBoost
10 9 (8.04%) FastAPI
11 8 (7.14%) Flask
11 8 (7.14%) REST
12 7 (6.25%) Terraform
13 6 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (3.57%) AngularJS
14 4 (3.57%) Hugging Face
14 4 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (3.57%) PySpark
14 4 (3.57%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 51 (45.54%) Cloud Native
2 17 (15.18%) Product Ownership
3 16 (14.29%) Clustering
4 15 (13.39%) Public Cloud
5 11 (9.82%) Mobile Banking
6 9 (8.04%) AI Agents
7 7 (6.25%) Algorithms
8 6 (5.36%) Credit Risk
8 6 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (3.57%) Blog
10 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.68%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.79%) CUDA
11 2 (1.79%) Synthetic Data
12 1 (0.89%) Acoustics
12 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.89%) Life Science
12 1 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (92.86%) Machine Learning
2 92 (82.14%) Data Science
3 84 (75.00%) AI
4 57 (50.89%) Generative AI
5 54 (48.21%) Analytics
6 46 (41.07%) LLM
6 46 (41.07%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 42 (37.50%) CI/CD
7 42 (37.50%) MLOps
8 41 (36.61%) Software Engineering
9 40 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
10 39 (34.82%) Prompt Engineering
10 39 (34.82%) Statistics
11 36 (32.14%) Decision-Making
11 36 (32.14%) Use Case
12 35 (31.25%) Data Engineering
12 35 (31.25%) Feature Engineering
13 31 (27.68%) Predictive Modelling
14 27 (24.11%) Computer Science
15 25 (22.32%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 105 (93.75%) Python
2 58 (51.79%) SQL
3 5 (4.46%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.57%) Java
5 3 (2.68%) C++
5 3 (2.68%) R
6 1 (0.89%) Bash
6 1 (0.89%) C
6 1 (0.89%) C#
6 1 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.89%) Scala
6 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (29.46%) Degree
2 17 (15.18%) PhD
2 17 (15.18%) Security Cleared
3 11 (9.82%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.36%) DBS Check
5 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.86%) GDPR
2 15 (13.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (8.93%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.46%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 13 (11.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.57%) Ansible
2 4 (3.57%) Grafana
2 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (23.21%) Databricks
2 15 (13.39%) Cloudera
2 15 (13.39%) Dell
3 13 (11.61%) OpenAI
4 12 (10.71%) Google
5 7 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.79%) Foundry
6 2 (1.79%) Mistral
6 2 (1.79%) Thales
6 2 (1.79%) Workday
7 1 (0.89%) Cognizant