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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 576 761
Rank change year-on-year +11 +185 +104
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 117 80 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.18% 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 0.82% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 75 41 25
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +30.77% -13.79%
75th Percentile £53,125 £93,778 £88,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £105,000 £116,250
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 7,999 9,703 18,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 22.21% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,856 6,683 15,119
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,750
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 £102,500 £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 12 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 12 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 +16 104 £37,500 -55.88% 171
UK excluding London +5 67 £37,500 -54.55% 152
London +31 44 £75,000 -15.60% 65
North of England -15 31 £37,500 -55.88% 38
North West 0 15 £37,500 -56.01% 17
Yorkshire -41 11 £37,500 -49.66% 16
Midlands - 10 £37,500 - 28
West Midlands - 9 £37,500 - 7
South West -21 8 £37,500 -38.78% 12
East of England -6 6 £70,000 - 9
Scotland -11 6 £37,500 -46.43% 9
South East -16 5 £46,250 -43.94% 40
Work from Home -25 5 £77,500 +14.81% 36
North East - 5 £37,500 - 7
East Midlands - 1 £37,500 - 21
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 (46.15%) Jupyter
2 16 (13.68%) Appian
3 14 (11.97%) Apache Spark
4 13 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 54 (46.15%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 83 (70.94%) AWS
2 54 (46.15%) Cloud Computing
3 41 (35.04%) Azure
4 22 (18.80%) GCP
5 17 (14.53%) Azure AI
6 12 (10.26%) Anthropic Claude
6 12 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (10.26%) Power Automate
7 10 (8.55%) Snowflake
8 8 (6.84%) Azure Machine Learning
8 8 (6.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (6.84%) dbt
8 8 (6.84%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.42%) Datadog
9 4 (3.42%) GitHub
9 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.42%) Prefect
10 3 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.68%) Pinecone
2 12 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.26%) Tableau
3 9 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.84%) BigQuery
4 8 (6.84%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (6.84%) Looker
4 8 (6.84%) Power BI
4 8 (6.84%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (4.27%) Big Data
5 5 (4.27%) MySQL
6 4 (3.42%) Weaviate
7 3 (2.56%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (46.15%) Visual Studio Code
2 32 (27.35%) MLflow
3 6 (5.13%) Git
4 3 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 76 (64.96%) Finance
2 57 (48.72%) Manufacturing
3 54 (46.15%) Retail
4 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
5 18 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.69%) Marketing
7 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.56%) Electronics
9 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.71%) Law
11 1 (0.85%) Banking
11 1 (0.85%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (43.59%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 51 (43.59%) Programmer
1 51 (43.59%) Trainee
1 51 (43.59%) Trainee Programmer
2 17 (14.53%) Senior
3 15 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 12 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (8.55%) Data Scientist
6 9 (7.69%) Developer
7 8 (6.84%) Lead
7 8 (6.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Consultant
8 6 (5.13%) Data Consultant
9 5 (4.27%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 4 (3.42%) Development Manager
10 4 (3.42%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (72.65%) Pandas
2 74 (63.25%) NumPy
3 68 (58.12%) Hugging Face
4 59 (50.43%) PyTorch
4 59 (50.43%) TensorFlow
5 58 (49.57%) Matplotlib
6 54 (46.15%) Streamlit
7 21 (17.95%) LangChain
8 20 (17.09%) REST
9 17 (14.53%) Django
9 17 (14.53%) FastAPI
10 14 (11.97%) Kafka
11 13 (11.11%) Flask
11 13 (11.11%) RESTful
12 12 (10.26%) JWT
12 12 (10.26%) OAuth
12 12 (10.26%) OpenAPI
12 12 (10.26%) pytest
12 12 (10.26%) Swagger
12 12 (10.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (54.70%) Algorithms
2 14 (11.97%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (10.26%) Low-Code
4 8 (6.84%) Clustering
4 8 (6.84%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.42%) Hackathon
7 3 (2.56%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.56%) Life Science
8 1 (0.85%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.85%) Genomics
8 1 (0.85%) Omics
8 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.85%) Social Network
8 1 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 114 (97.44%) AI
3 95 (81.20%) LLM
4 86 (73.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 82 (70.09%) Prompt Engineering
6 73 (62.39%) Workflow
7 66 (56.41%) OO
8 61 (52.14%) Visualisation
9 60 (51.28%) Neural Network
10 57 (48.72%) Data Privacy
11 56 (47.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 55 (47.01%) Conversational UI
13 54 (46.15%) Customer Service
13 54 (46.15%) OOP
13 54 (46.15%) Sentiment Analysis
14 41 (35.04%) Data Science
15 32 (27.35%) Data Engineering
16 31 (26.50%) CI/CD
17 30 (25.64%) Data Pipeline
17 30 (25.64%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 117 (100.00%) Python
2 32 (27.35%) SQL
3 11 (9.40%) JavaScript
3 11 (9.40%) R
4 6 (5.13%) Java
5 5 (4.27%) PHP
6 4 (3.42%) Go
6 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.42%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.85%) C
7 1 (0.85%) C++
7 1 (0.85%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 54 (46.15%) AWS Certification
1 54 (46.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 14 (11.97%) Degree
3 7 (5.98%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.27%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.56%) PhD
7 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.71%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.69%) GDPR
3 8 (6.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.42%) SLA
5 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 37 (31.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.98%) Ansible
2 7 (5.98%) Terraform
3 3 (2.56%) Grafana
3 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (51.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.80%) OpenAI
3 14 (11.97%) Databricks
4 12 (10.26%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (10.26%) UiPath
5 8 (6.84%) Cloudera
5 8 (6.84%) Dell
6 4 (3.42%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (3.42%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.42%) Foundry
6 4 (3.42%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.56%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) Google