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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 559 774
Rank change year-on-year -10 +215 +85
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 125 81 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.55% 0.87% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 74 41 24
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +36.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £49,688 £93,778 £86,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £105,000 £110,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £82,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -54.55% +37.50% +9.33%

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 8,064 9,313 19,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 21.90% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,895 6,625 15,137
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +16 112 £37,500 -55.88% 151
UK excluding London +7 69 £37,500 -54.55% 134
London +15 49 £75,000 -15.60% 56
North of England -21 33 £37,500 -55.88% 32
North West +2 16 £37,500 -56.01% 13
Yorkshire -31 12 £37,500 -49.66% 14
Midlands - 10 £37,500 - 25
Work from Home -30 9 £77,500 +14.81% 33
West Midlands - 9 £37,500 - 6
South West -25 8 £37,500 -38.78% 10
East of England -18 6 - - 13
Scotland -20 6 £37,500 -46.43% 7
South East -22 5 £46,250 -43.94% 34
North East - 5 £37,500 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £37,500 - 19
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 54 (43.20%) Jupyter
2 18 (14.40%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (14.40%) Apache Spark
3 16 (12.80%) Appian
Applications
1 54 (43.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 89 (71.20%) AWS
2 54 (43.20%) Cloud Computing
3 45 (36.00%) Azure
4 27 (21.60%) GCP
5 17 (13.60%) Azure AI
6 15 (12.00%) Snowflake
7 13 (10.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (10.40%) dbt
7 13 (10.40%) Power Platform
8 12 (9.60%) Anthropic Claude
8 12 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (9.60%) Power Automate
9 8 (6.40%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (3.20%) Datadog
10 4 (3.20%) GitHub
10 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.20%) Prefect
11 3 (2.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.60%) Data Warehouse
1 17 (13.60%) Tableau
2 16 (12.80%) Pinecone
3 14 (11.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (10.40%) BigQuery
4 13 (10.40%) Data Lake
4 13 (10.40%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (10.40%) Looker
4 13 (10.40%) Power BI
4 13 (10.40%) Snowflake Schema
5 12 (9.60%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.00%) Big Data
6 5 (4.00%) MySQL
7 4 (3.20%) Weaviate
8 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (43.20%) Visual Studio Code
2 36 (28.80%) MLflow
3 6 (4.80%) Git
4 3 (2.40%) GitLab
General
1 77 (61.60%) Finance
2 57 (45.60%) Manufacturing
3 54 (43.20%) Retail
4 28 (22.40%) Social Skills
5 24 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.20%) Marketing
7 6 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.40%) Electronics
9 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.60%) Law
11 1 (0.80%) Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.80%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (40.80%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 51 (40.80%) Programmer
1 51 (40.80%) Trainee
1 51 (40.80%) Trainee Programmer
2 25 (20.00%) Senior
3 15 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 13 (10.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 13 (10.40%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (8.80%) Data Scientist
7 9 (7.20%) Developer
7 9 (7.20%) Lead
8 7 (5.60%) Senior Data Scientist
9 6 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Consultant
9 6 (4.80%) Data Consultant
10 5 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Development Manager
11 4 (3.20%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (68.80%) Pandas
2 75 (60.00%) NumPy
3 68 (54.40%) Hugging Face
4 66 (52.80%) PyTorch
5 62 (49.60%) TensorFlow
6 58 (46.40%) Matplotlib
7 54 (43.20%) Streamlit
8 25 (20.00%) LangChain
9 20 (16.00%) REST
10 18 (14.40%) Kafka
11 17 (13.60%) Django
11 17 (13.60%) FastAPI
12 14 (11.20%) LlamaIndex
13 13 (10.40%) Flask
13 13 (10.40%) pgvector
13 13 (10.40%) RESTful
14 12 (9.60%) OAuth
14 12 (9.60%) pytest
14 12 (9.60%) Swagger
14 12 (9.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (50.40%) Algorithms
2 18 (14.40%) Cloud Native
3 13 (10.40%) Clustering
3 13 (10.40%) Public Cloud
4 12 (9.60%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (9.60%) Low-Code
5 7 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.20%) Hackathon
7 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.40%) Life Science
8 1 (0.80%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.80%) Genomics
8 1 (0.80%) Omics
8 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.80%) Social Network
8 1 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 121 (96.80%) AI
3 98 (78.40%) LLM
4 95 (76.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 87 (69.60%) Prompt Engineering
6 73 (58.40%) Workflow
7 66 (52.80%) OO
8 61 (48.80%) Visualisation
9 60 (48.00%) Neural Network
10 59 (47.20%) Conversational UI
11 56 (44.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 56 (44.80%) Data Privacy
12 54 (43.20%) Customer Service
12 54 (43.20%) OOP
12 54 (43.20%) Sentiment Analysis
13 49 (39.20%) Data Science
14 38 (30.40%) Generative AI
15 37 (29.60%) Data Engineering
16 34 (27.20%) Data Pipeline
17 31 (24.80%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 125 (100.00%) Python
2 38 (30.40%) SQL
3 11 (8.80%) JavaScript
3 11 (8.80%) R
4 6 (4.80%) Java
5 5 (4.00%) PHP
6 4 (3.20%) Go
6 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.20%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.80%) C
7 1 (0.80%) C++
7 1 (0.80%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 54 (43.20%) AWS Certification
1 54 (43.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 17 (13.60%) Degree
3 11 (8.80%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.80%) PhD
5 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.20%) GDPR
3 13 (10.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.80%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (28.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (25.60%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.60%) Ansible
2 7 (5.60%) Terraform
3 3 (2.40%) Grafana
3 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.60%) OpenAI
3 18 (14.40%) Databricks
4 13 (10.40%) Cloudera
4 13 (10.40%) Dell
5 12 (9.60%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (9.60%) UiPath
6 4 (3.20%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (3.20%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.20%) Foundry
6 4 (3.20%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.40%) SAP
8 1 (0.80%) Google