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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 700 589 706
Rank change year-on-year -111 +117 0
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 104 86 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 1.00% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34 43 35
10th Percentile £38,825 £44,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £108,438 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £118,125 £116,250 £142,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +28.57% -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 11,928 8,596 16,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.35% 17.39% 21.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8,530 5,521 10,739
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 18 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 18 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 -86 96 £70,000 -12.50% 262
London -38 62 £107,500 +13.16% 164
Work from Home -18 31 £107,500 +72.00% 66
UK excluding London -146 29 £67,500 +28.57% 125
Midlands -39 12 £61,250 +14.49% 18
East Midlands -36 10 £50,500 - 10
South East -43 6 £70,000 +40.00% 31
North of England -72 6 £70,000 +27.27% 29
North West -16 5 £70,000 +27.27% 17
East of England -32 4 £55,000 -2.22% 18
West Midlands -45 2 £103,750 +93.93% 8
Yorkshire -49 1 - - 5
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 14 (13.46%) Apache Spark
2 13 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 75 (72.12%) AWS
2 56 (53.85%) Azure
3 47 (45.19%) GCP
4 22 (21.15%) Power Platform
5 14 (13.46%) Amazon S3
5 14 (13.46%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (13.46%) Serverless
5 14 (13.46%) Snowflake
6 13 (12.50%) dbt
7 10 (9.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (5.77%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (3.85%) Azure AI
9 4 (3.85%) Google Gemini
9 4 (3.85%) SaaS
10 3 (2.88%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (2.88%) GitHub
11 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.15%) Power BI
2 18 (17.31%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (13.46%) Tableau
4 11 (10.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (10.58%) BigQuery
5 10 (9.62%) Data Lake
5 10 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (9.62%) Looker
5 10 (9.62%) Milvus
5 10 (9.62%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (5.77%) Big Data
6 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.81%) Pinecone
8 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.88%) MySQL
9 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.92%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.92%) Redis
10 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (18.27%) Git
2 12 (11.54%) MLflow
3 6 (5.77%) GitLab
4 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.96%) JIRA
5 1 (0.96%) NUnit
5 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.96%) Yeoman
General
1 52 (50.00%) Finance
2 33 (31.73%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (26.92%) Banking
4 23 (22.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (21.15%) Social Skills
6 20 (19.23%) Law
7 19 (18.27%) Marketing
8 7 (6.73%) Retail
9 6 (5.77%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (4.81%) Retail Banking
11 4 (3.85%) Legal
11 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.88%) Publishing
13 2 (1.92%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.92%) Aviation
13 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (25.96%) Data Scientist
1 27 (25.96%) Lead
2 22 (21.15%) Senior
3 21 (20.19%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 17 (16.35%) Software Engineer
5 14 (13.46%) Senior Data Scientist
6 13 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (8.65%) Lead Data Scientist
9 8 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Consultant
11 6 (5.77%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) Data Consultant
12 4 (3.85%) Data Science Consultant
12 4 (3.85%) Security Consultant
13 2 (1.92%) AWS Engineer
13 2 (1.92%) Backend Developer
13 2 (1.92%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (75.96%) PyTorch
2 69 (66.35%) TensorFlow
3 43 (41.35%) Pandas
4 33 (31.73%) LangChain
5 30 (28.85%) NumPy
6 16 (15.38%) Kafka
6 16 (15.38%) LlamaIndex
7 15 (14.42%) LangGraph
8 12 (11.54%) pgvector
9 9 (8.65%) FastAPI
9 9 (8.65%) REST
9 9 (8.65%) XGBoost
10 8 (7.69%) Flask
11 7 (6.73%) Terraform
12 6 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (4.81%) Hugging Face
13 5 (4.81%) PySpark
13 5 (4.81%) Streamlit
14 4 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (3.85%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 46 (44.23%) Cloud Native
2 18 (17.31%) Product Ownership
3 11 (10.58%) Clustering
3 11 (10.58%) Mobile Banking
4 10 (9.62%) Public Cloud
5 9 (8.65%) AI Agents
6 8 (7.69%) Algorithms
7 6 (5.77%) Credit Risk
7 6 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.85%) Blog
9 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.88%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.92%) CUDA
10 2 (1.92%) Synthetic Data
11 1 (0.96%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.96%) Life Science
11 1 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (91.35%) Machine Learning
2 82 (78.85%) Data Science
3 77 (74.04%) AI
4 50 (48.08%) Analytics
5 48 (46.15%) Generative AI
6 43 (41.35%) LLM
7 42 (40.38%) CI/CD
7 42 (40.38%) MLOps
8 41 (39.42%) Software Engineering
9 39 (37.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 37 (35.58%) Decision-Making
11 36 (34.62%) Prompt Engineering
12 35 (33.65%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (32.69%) Statistics
14 31 (29.81%) Data Engineering
14 31 (29.81%) Use Case
15 29 (27.88%) Feature Engineering
16 28 (26.92%) Computer Science
17 26 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
18 24 (23.08%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 97 (93.27%) Python
2 53 (50.96%) SQL
3 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.85%) Java
5 3 (2.88%) C++
5 3 (2.88%) R
6 2 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.96%) Bash
7 1 (0.96%) C
7 1 (0.96%) C#
7 1 (0.96%) Scala
7 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (28.85%) Degree
2 17 (16.35%) Security Cleared
3 13 (12.50%) PhD
4 7 (6.73%) Master's Degree
5 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.77%) DBS Check
6 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.42%) GDPR
2 11 (10.58%) Data Quality
3 10 (9.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (4.81%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 13 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.85%) Ansible
2 4 (3.85%) Grafana
2 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.92%) Argo
Vendors
1 21 (20.19%) Databricks
2 13 (12.50%) OpenAI
3 12 (11.54%) Google
4 10 (9.62%) Cloudera
4 10 (9.62%) Dell
5 9 (8.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.92%) Foundry
6 2 (1.92%) Mistral
6 2 (1.92%) Thales
6 2 (1.92%) Workday
7 1 (0.96%) Cognizant