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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 721 597 705
Rank change year-on-year -124 +108 -23
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 89 81 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 0.96% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 33 38 35
10th Percentile £38,800 £42,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,938 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -10.94% +8.47%
75th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £111,250 £142,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +23.81% -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 11,970 8,403 16,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 16.94% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,491 5,355 10,127
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,957 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -128 81 £70,000 -1.75% 290
London -43 55 £87,500 -7.89% 190
Work from Home -29 30 £107,500 +79.17% 89
UK excluding London -155 21 £65,000 +23.81% 135
Midlands -49 8 £61,250 +14.49% 17
East Midlands -37 6 £50,500 - 7
South East -50 6 £70,000 +51.35% 31
North of England -72 5 £70,000 +27.27% 30
North West -36 4 £70,000 +27.27% 20
West Midlands -44 2 £103,750 +93.93% 10
Yorkshire -35 1 - - 5
East of England -46 1 £55,000 -2.22% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9

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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 4 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 62 (69.66%) AWS
2 40 (44.94%) Azure
3 33 (37.08%) GCP
4 13 (14.61%) Amazon S3
4 13 (14.61%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (14.61%) Serverless
5 8 (8.99%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.62%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (4.49%) Azure AI
7 4 (4.49%) SaaS
7 4 (4.49%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.37%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (3.37%) dbt
8 3 (3.37%) GitHub
8 3 (3.37%) Google Gemini
9 2 (2.25%) Figma
9 2 (2.25%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (8.99%) Power BI
2 6 (6.74%) Big Data
2 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.49%) Pinecone
4 4 (4.49%) Tableau
5 3 (3.37%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.37%) MySQL
6 2 (2.25%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.25%) Power Query
6 2 (2.25%) Redis
6 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.25%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.12%) Airbyte
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.12%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (21.35%) Git
2 5 (5.62%) GitLab
3 2 (2.25%) MLflow
4 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.12%) JIRA
4 1 (1.12%) NUnit
4 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.12%) Yeoman
General
1 52 (58.43%) Finance
2 28 (31.46%) Banking
3 23 (25.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
5 20 (22.47%) Law
6 19 (21.35%) Marketing
7 18 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (5.62%) Retail Banking
9 4 (4.49%) Legal
9 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
10 3 (3.37%) Publishing
10 3 (3.37%) Retail
11 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
11 2 (2.25%) Aviation
11 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (29.21%) Lead
2 22 (24.72%) Data Scientist
3 17 (19.10%) Machine Learning Scientist
3 17 (19.10%) Software Engineer
4 14 (15.73%) Senior
5 13 (14.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 13 (14.61%) Senior Data Scientist
6 8 (8.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Lead Data Scientist
7 7 (7.87%) Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Consultant
8 6 (6.74%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Data Consultant
9 4 (4.49%) Data Science Consultant
9 4 (4.49%) Security Consultant
10 2 (2.25%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Python Developer
10 2 (2.25%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (70.79%) PyTorch
2 57 (64.04%) TensorFlow
3 39 (43.82%) Pandas
4 28 (31.46%) NumPy
5 22 (24.72%) LangChain
6 15 (16.85%) LangGraph
7 9 (10.11%) REST
7 9 (10.11%) XGBoost
8 8 (8.99%) FastAPI
8 8 (8.99%) Flask
8 8 (8.99%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (7.87%) Terraform
10 6 (6.74%) Kafka
11 5 (5.62%) LlamaIndex
11 5 (5.62%) PySpark
11 5 (5.62%) Streamlit
12 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
12 4 (4.49%) Hugging Face
12 4 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (4.49%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 35 (39.33%) Cloud Native
2 18 (20.22%) Product Ownership
3 11 (12.36%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (10.11%) AI Agents
5 8 (8.99%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.74%) Credit Risk
6 6 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.49%) Blog
8 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.37%) Hackathon
9 2 (2.25%) CUDA
9 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.25%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (1.12%) Acoustics
10 1 (1.12%) Clustering
10 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.12%) Life Science
10 1 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (87.64%) Machine Learning
2 65 (73.03%) AI
2 65 (73.03%) Data Science
3 43 (48.31%) CI/CD
4 42 (47.19%) LLM
5 41 (46.07%) Software Engineering
6 38 (42.70%) Analytics
7 37 (41.57%) Decision-Making
7 37 (41.57%) Generative AI
7 37 (41.57%) MLOps
8 30 (33.71%) Statistics
9 28 (31.46%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 26 (29.21%) Computer Science
10 26 (29.21%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (28.09%) Prompt Engineering
12 24 (26.97%) Deep Learning
12 24 (26.97%) Test Automation
13 22 (24.72%) Data Engineering
14 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
14 20 (22.47%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 83 (93.26%) Python
2 38 (42.70%) SQL
3 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.49%) Java
5 3 (3.37%) C++
5 3 (3.37%) R
6 2 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.12%) Bash
7 1 (1.12%) C
7 1 (1.12%) C#
7 1 (1.12%) Scala
7 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (31.46%) Degree
2 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
3 13 (14.61%) PhD
4 7 (7.87%) Master's Degree
5 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.25%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.36%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.62%) EU AI Act
2 5 (5.62%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.25%) QA
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.49%) Ansible
2 4 (4.49%) Grafana
2 4 (4.49%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.12%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (13.48%) OpenAI
2 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.87%) Google
4 6 (6.74%) Databricks
5 2 (2.25%) Foundry
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle
5 2 (2.25%) Thales
5 2 (2.25%) Workday
6 1 (1.12%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.12%) Mistral