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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 725 581 702
Rank change year-on-year -144 +121 -36
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 91 83 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 0.98% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 33 40 34
10th Percentile £38,800 £43,250 £46,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -3.28% +1.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £109,375
90th Percentile £113,750 £111,875 £144,525
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 12,017 8,504 16,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 17.18% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,550 5,442 10,365
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £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 £86,938 £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 26 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 26 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 -119 83 £70,000 -5.08% 293
London -47 55 £91,250 -3.95% 183
Work from Home -38 31 £107,500 +79.17% 87
UK excluding London -175 23 £67,500 +28.57% 140
Midlands -47 9 £61,250 +14.49% 18
East Midlands -27 7 £50,500 - 9
South East -38 6 £70,000 +40.00% 29
North of England -65 6 £70,000 +27.27% 32
North West -29 5 £70,000 +27.27% 19
West Midlands -39 2 £103,750 +93.93% 9
East of England -35 1 £55,000 -2.22% 18
Yorkshire -46 1 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10

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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 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 63 (69.23%) AWS
2 42 (46.15%) Azure
3 34 (37.36%) GCP
4 14 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 14 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (15.38%) Serverless
5 9 (9.89%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.49%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (4.40%) Azure AI
7 4 (4.40%) Google Gemini
7 4 (4.40%) SaaS
7 4 (4.40%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (3.30%) dbt
8 3 (3.30%) GitHub
9 2 (2.20%) Figma
9 2 (2.20%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) Power BI
2 8 (8.79%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.59%) Big Data
3 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.49%) Pinecone
4 5 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.40%) Tableau
6 3 (3.30%) MySQL
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.20%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.20%) Neo4j
7 2 (2.20%) Power Query
7 2 (2.20%) Redis
7 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.20%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.10%) Airbyte
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (20.88%) Git
2 6 (6.59%) GitLab
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) MLflow
4 1 (1.10%) JIRA
4 1 (1.10%) NUnit
4 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.10%) Yeoman
General
1 52 (57.14%) Finance
2 28 (30.77%) Banking
3 23 (25.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (24.18%) Social Skills
5 20 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (21.98%) Law
6 19 (20.88%) Marketing
7 5 (5.49%) Retail Banking
8 4 (4.40%) Legal
8 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.40%) Retail
9 3 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.30%) Publishing
10 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.20%) Aviation
10 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (30.77%) Lead
2 24 (26.37%) Data Scientist
3 18 (19.78%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 17 (18.68%) Software Engineer
5 14 (15.38%) Senior Data Scientist
6 13 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 13 (14.29%) Senior
7 9 (9.89%) Lead Data Scientist
8 8 (8.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Developer
10 6 (6.59%) Consultant
10 6 (6.59%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Data Consultant
11 4 (4.40%) Data Science Consultant
11 4 (4.40%) Security Consultant
12 2 (2.20%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 2 (2.20%) Backend Developer
12 2 (2.20%) Integration Developer
12 2 (2.20%) Python Engineer
12 2 (2.20%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (71.43%) PyTorch
2 58 (63.74%) TensorFlow
3 41 (45.05%) Pandas
4 30 (32.97%) NumPy
5 23 (25.27%) LangChain
6 15 (16.48%) LangGraph
7 9 (9.89%) FastAPI
7 9 (9.89%) REST
7 9 (9.89%) XGBoost
8 8 (8.79%) Flask
9 7 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (7.69%) Terraform
10 6 (6.59%) Kafka
10 6 (6.59%) LlamaIndex
11 5 (5.49%) Hugging Face
11 5 (5.49%) PySpark
11 5 (5.49%) Streamlit
12 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
12 4 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (4.40%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 36 (39.56%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.78%) Product Ownership
3 11 (12.09%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (9.89%) AI Agents
5 8 (8.79%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.59%) Credit Risk
6 6 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.40%) Blog
8 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.30%) Hackathon
9 2 (2.20%) CUDA
9 2 (2.20%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (1.10%) Acoustics
10 1 (1.10%) Clustering
10 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.10%) Life Science
10 1 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (89.01%) Machine Learning
2 68 (74.73%) Data Science
3 66 (72.53%) AI
4 43 (47.25%) CI/CD
4 43 (47.25%) LLM
5 41 (45.05%) Software Engineering
6 39 (42.86%) MLOps
7 38 (41.76%) Analytics
7 38 (41.76%) Generative AI
8 37 (40.66%) Decision-Making
9 32 (35.16%) Statistics
10 29 (31.87%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 26 (28.57%) Computer Science
11 26 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
12 25 (27.47%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (26.37%) Deep Learning
13 24 (26.37%) Test Automation
14 22 (24.18%) Data Engineering
15 21 (23.08%) Mentoring
15 21 (23.08%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 85 (93.41%) Python
2 40 (43.96%) SQL
3 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.40%) Java
5 3 (3.30%) C++
5 3 (3.30%) R
6 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.10%) Bash
7 1 (1.10%) C
7 1 (1.10%) C#
7 1 (1.10%) Scala
7 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (30.77%) Degree
2 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
3 13 (14.29%) PhD
4 7 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 6 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.30%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.49%) EU AI Act
2 5 (5.49%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.40%) Ansible
2 4 (4.40%) Grafana
2 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.20%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 9 (9.89%) Google
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Databricks
4 2 (2.20%) Foundry
4 2 (2.20%) Mistral
4 2 (2.20%) Thales
4 2 (2.20%) Workday
5 1 (1.10%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle