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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 599 745
Rank change year-on-year +25 +146 +98
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 103 71 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.080%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 0.66% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 68 42 25
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.13% +23.08% -14.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £93,771 £86,250
90th Percentile £79,875 £97,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -46.43% +16.67% +5.28%

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 7,671 10,771 17,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.15% 22.20% 23.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,639 6,632 14,356
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 21 February 2026.

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 21 February 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 +61 92 £37,500 -55.88% 101
UK excluding London +32 58 £37,500 -46.43% 91
London +44 41 £75,000 -15.60% 46
North of England -9 29 £37,500 -55.88% 27
North West +7 15 £37,500 -56.01% 14
Yorkshire -27 9 £37,500 -49.66% 10
South West -5 8 £37,500 -16.67% 11
Work from Home +12 6 £77,500 +20.16% 36
Scotland +1 6 £37,500 -42.31% 7
South East -8 5 £52,500 -8.70% 19
West Midlands - 5 £37,500 - 4
Midlands - 5 £37,500 - 13
North East - 5 £37,500 - 3
East of England +13 4 £70,000 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

scikit-learn
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 46 (44.66%) Jupyter
2 16 (15.53%) Appian
3 8 (7.77%) Apache Spark
4 6 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 45 (43.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 68 (66.02%) AWS
2 45 (43.69%) Cloud Computing
3 37 (35.92%) Azure
4 18 (17.48%) Azure AI
5 16 (15.53%) GCP
6 12 (11.65%) Anthropic Claude
6 12 (11.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (11.65%) Power Automate
7 8 (7.77%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (3.88%) Datadog
8 4 (3.88%) GitHub
8 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.88%) Prefect
9 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.97%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.97%) Serverless
11 1 (0.97%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.53%) Pinecone
2 12 (11.65%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.83%) Big Data
3 6 (5.83%) Tableau
4 5 (4.85%) MySQL
5 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.88%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.88%) Weaviate
6 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 45 (43.69%) Visual Studio Code
2 24 (23.30%) MLflow
3 6 (5.83%) Git
4 2 (1.94%) GitLab
General
1 67 (65.05%) Finance
2 48 (46.60%) Manufacturing
3 45 (43.69%) Retail
4 30 (29.13%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (8.74%) Marketing
7 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.91%) Electronics
9 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.94%) Law
11 1 (0.97%) Banking
11 1 (0.97%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.97%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (43.69%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 45 (43.69%) Programmer
1 45 (43.69%) Trainee
1 45 (43.69%) Trainee Programmer
2 16 (15.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (11.65%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (10.68%) Data Scientist
4 11 (10.68%) Senior
5 8 (7.77%) Lead
6 7 (6.80%) Developer
7 6 (5.83%) Consultant
7 6 (5.83%) Data Consultant
8 5 (4.85%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Data Science Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Development Manager
9 4 (3.88%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (77.67%) Pandas
2 68 (66.02%) NumPy
3 60 (58.25%) Hugging Face
4 53 (51.46%) TensorFlow
5 52 (50.49%) PyTorch
6 50 (48.54%) Matplotlib
7 45 (43.69%) Streamlit
8 20 (19.42%) REST
9 18 (17.48%) FastAPI
10 17 (16.50%) Django
11 16 (15.53%) LangChain
12 13 (12.62%) Flask
12 13 (12.62%) pytest
12 13 (12.62%) RESTful
13 12 (11.65%) Faiss
13 12 (11.65%) JWT
13 12 (11.65%) OAuth
13 12 (11.65%) OpenAPI
13 12 (11.65%) Swagger
13 12 (11.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (53.40%) Algorithms
2 12 (11.65%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (11.65%) Low-Code
3 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.88%) Hackathon
6 3 (2.91%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.91%) Life Science
7 1 (0.97%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.97%) Genomics
7 1 (0.97%) Omics
7 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.97%) Social Network
7 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (99.03%) Machine Learning
2 100 (97.09%) AI
3 90 (87.38%) LLM
4 71 (68.93%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 66 (64.08%) Prompt Engineering
6 64 (62.14%) Workflow
7 57 (55.34%) OO
8 55 (53.40%) Visualisation
9 51 (49.51%) Neural Network
10 48 (46.60%) Data Privacy
11 47 (45.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 46 (44.66%) Conversational UI
13 45 (43.69%) Customer Service
13 45 (43.69%) OOP
13 45 (43.69%) Sentiment Analysis
14 38 (36.89%) Data Science
15 31 (30.10%) CI/CD
16 30 (29.13%) MLOps
17 25 (24.27%) Data Engineering
17 25 (24.27%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 103 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (26.21%) SQL
3 13 (12.62%) R
4 10 (9.71%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.83%) Java
6 5 (4.85%) PHP
7 4 (3.88%) Go
7 4 (3.88%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.97%) Bicep
8 1 (0.97%) C
8 1 (0.97%) C++
8 1 (0.97%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 45 (43.69%) AWS Certification
1 45 (43.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 15 (14.56%) Degree
3 7 (6.80%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) PhD
6 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.88%) SLA
3 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 36 (34.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (31.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.83%) Ansible
2 6 (5.83%) Terraform
3 2 (1.94%) Grafana
3 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (49.51%) Microsoft
2 22 (21.36%) OpenAI
3 12 (11.65%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (11.65%) UiPath
4 6 (5.83%) Databricks
5 5 (4.85%) Foundry
6 4 (3.88%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (3.88%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.88%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.91%) SAP
8 1 (0.97%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.97%) Google