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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 594 812
Rank change year-on-year -4 +218 +4
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 141 92 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.089%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 1.05% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 78 40 32
10th Percentile - £51,325 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,375 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £85,253 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.01% +21.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £51,500 £103,125 £89,688
90th Percentile £80,250 £121,500 £125,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -44.44% +3.85% +4.00%

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 9,840 8,760 21,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 18.95% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,373 5,766 16,159
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -26 125 £37,500 -56.01% 102
UK excluding London -51 79 £37,500 -44.44% 83
London -12 48 £64,500 -32.11% 41
North of England -35 36 £37,500 -41.86% 17
Work from Home -4 25 £70,000 +8.53% 12
Midlands -20 19 £37,500 -29.91% 11
North West +6 18 £37,500 -48.28% 8
Yorkshire -31 13 £37,500 -41.41% 7
West Midlands -13 10 £37,500 -29.91% 5
East Midlands -13 9 £37,500 - 6
East of England -15 8 - - 12
Scotland +17 6 £37,500 -46.43% 1
South West -63 6 £37,500 -25.00% 13
North East -42 5 £37,500 - 4
South East -24 3 £70,000 -36.36% 28
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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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 (38.30%) Jupyter
2 25 (17.73%) Apache Spark
3 23 (16.31%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.55%) Appian
Applications
1 56 (39.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.71%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 115 (81.56%) AWS
2 62 (43.97%) Azure
3 54 (38.30%) Cloud Computing
4 48 (34.04%) GCP
5 30 (21.28%) Power Platform
6 25 (17.73%) Snowflake
7 23 (16.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (16.31%) dbt
8 7 (4.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 7 (4.96%) Anthropic Claude
9 6 (4.26%) Azure AI
9 6 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (3.55%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (3.55%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.84%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.84%) Serverless
12 3 (2.13%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.13%) SaaS
13 2 (1.42%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (21.28%) Power BI
2 25 (17.73%) Amazon Redshift
2 25 (17.73%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (17.73%) Tableau
3 23 (16.31%) BigQuery
3 23 (16.31%) Data Lake
3 23 (16.31%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (16.31%) Looker
3 23 (16.31%) Snowflake Schema
4 10 (7.09%) Pinecone
5 6 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.55%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.84%) Big Data
7 4 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.13%) MySQL
9 2 (1.42%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.42%) Redis
9 2 (1.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (38.30%) Visual Studio Code
2 31 (21.99%) MLflow
3 9 (6.38%) Git
3 9 (6.38%) GitLab
4 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.71%) JIRA
5 1 (0.71%) Yeoman
General
1 83 (58.87%) Finance
2 60 (42.55%) Retail
3 55 (39.01%) Manufacturing
4 42 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.51%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.55%) Banking
8 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (36.17%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 51 (36.17%) Programmer
1 51 (36.17%) Trainee
1 51 (36.17%) Trainee Programmer
2 35 (24.82%) Senior
3 23 (16.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 23 (16.31%) Systems Engineer
4 22 (15.60%) Data Scientist
5 13 (9.22%) Developer
6 12 (8.51%) Senior Data Scientist
7 10 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) Lead
8 8 (5.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Machine Learning Scientist
9 7 (4.96%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Lead Data Scientist
11 5 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.84%) Consultant
12 4 (2.84%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (60.99%) Pandas
2 76 (53.90%) NumPy
3 74 (52.48%) PyTorch
4 62 (43.97%) Hugging Face
5 57 (40.43%) Matplotlib
5 57 (40.43%) TensorFlow
6 54 (38.30%) Streamlit
7 37 (26.24%) LangChain
8 32 (22.70%) Kafka
9 25 (17.73%) LlamaIndex
9 25 (17.73%) pgvector
10 15 (10.64%) REST
11 10 (7.09%) FastAPI
11 10 (7.09%) Flask
12 9 (6.38%) LangGraph
12 9 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (6.38%) XGBoost
13 7 (4.96%) AngularJS
13 7 (4.96%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (4.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 59 (41.84%) Algorithms
2 34 (24.11%) Cloud Native
3 24 (17.02%) Clustering
4 23 (16.31%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.67%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.55%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.71%) Acoustics
9 1 (0.71%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.71%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.71%) Life Science
9 1 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (97.87%) Machine Learning
2 124 (87.94%) AI
3 98 (69.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 87 (61.70%) Prompt Engineering
5 79 (56.03%) LLM
6 72 (51.06%) Data Science
7 67 (47.52%) Visualisation
8 60 (42.55%) Conversational UI
8 60 (42.55%) OO
8 60 (42.55%) Workflow
9 56 (39.72%) Neural Network
10 55 (39.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 55 (39.01%) Data Privacy
10 55 (39.01%) OOP
11 54 (38.30%) Customer Service
11 54 (38.30%) Sentiment Analysis
12 51 (36.17%) Generative AI
13 43 (30.50%) Analytics
14 39 (27.66%) Data Engineering
14 39 (27.66%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 138 (97.87%) Python
2 51 (36.17%) SQL
3 9 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.55%) R
5 3 (2.13%) C++
5 3 (2.13%) Java
6 1 (0.71%) Bash
6 1 (0.71%) C
6 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (38.30%) AWS Certification
1 54 (38.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 16 (11.35%) Degree
3 13 (9.22%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.96%) PhD
5 6 (4.26%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.55%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (16.31%) GDPR
2 8 (5.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (14.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.67%) Terraform
3 7 (4.96%) Ansible
3 7 (4.96%) Grafana
3 7 (4.96%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 57 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 32 (22.70%) Databricks
3 23 (16.31%) Cloudera
3 23 (16.31%) Dell
4 12 (8.51%) Google
4 12 (8.51%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.55%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (3.55%) UiPath
6 1 (0.71%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.71%) Foundry
6 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto