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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 576 719
Rank change year-on-year -87 +143 +2
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 125 94 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 1.04% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 43 43 35
10th Percentile £33,750 £44,000 £53,000
25th Percentile £38,375 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +9.68% +7.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £116,250 £142,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% -18.46% +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 11,928 9,056 17,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.08% 18.16% 20.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,674 5,913 12,190
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,765 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -64 116 £70,000 -17.65% 87
London -30 71 £107,500 +13.16% 30
UK excluding London -122 39 £50,000 -5.66% 75
Work from Home -31 33 £88,750 +47.92% 13
Midlands -30 16 £37,500 -29.91% 12
East Midlands -14 10 £39,250 - 8
North of England -47 9 £70,000 +27.27% 17
East of England -20 8 £55,000 +29.41% 10
West Midlands -31 6 £37,500 -29.91% 4
North West -23 5 £70,000 +27.27% 8
South East -39 5 £70,000 -8.20% 22
Yorkshire -39 4 £37,500 -31.82% 5
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 26 (20.80%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 9 (7.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 93 (74.40%) AWS
2 65 (52.00%) Azure
3 57 (45.60%) GCP
4 34 (27.20%) Power Platform
5 27 (21.60%) Snowflake
6 26 (20.80%) dbt
7 23 (18.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (11.20%) Amazon S3
8 14 (11.20%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (11.20%) Serverless
9 9 (7.20%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (4.80%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (4.00%) SaaS
12 4 (3.20%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (3.20%) Azure AI
12 4 (3.20%) Google Gemini
13 3 (2.40%) Amazon Bedrock
13 3 (2.40%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.20%) Power BI
2 30 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (21.60%) Tableau
4 24 (19.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (19.20%) BigQuery
5 23 (18.40%) Data Lake
5 23 (18.40%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (18.40%) Looker
5 23 (18.40%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (4.80%) Big Data
6 6 (4.80%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.00%) Pinecone
8 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.40%) MySQL
9 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.60%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.60%) Redis
10 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (18.40%) MLflow
2 18 (14.40%) Git
3 9 (7.20%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (5.60%) GitLab
5 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.80%) JIRA
6 1 (0.80%) NUnit
6 1 (0.80%) Yeoman
General
1 59 (47.20%) Finance
2 46 (36.80%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (20.00%) Banking
4 24 (19.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (16.00%) Law
5 20 (16.00%) Social Skills
6 19 (15.20%) Marketing
7 15 (12.00%) Retail
8 10 (8.00%) Manufacturing
9 6 (4.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (4.00%) Retail Banking
11 4 (3.20%) Legal
11 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.40%) Publishing
13 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (29.60%) Senior
2 30 (24.00%) Data Scientist
3 28 (22.40%) Lead
4 23 (18.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (18.40%) Systems Engineer
5 22 (17.60%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 17 (13.60%) Senior Data Scientist
7 13 (10.40%) Software Engineer
8 11 (8.80%) Developer
8 11 (8.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 10 (8.00%) Lead Data Scientist
10 8 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 6 (4.80%) Consultant
11 6 (4.80%) Programmer
11 6 (4.80%) Trainee
11 6 (4.80%) Trainee Programmer
12 5 (4.00%) Data Engineer
13 4 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 4 (3.20%) Data Science Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (74.40%) PyTorch
2 78 (62.40%) TensorFlow
3 49 (39.20%) Pandas
4 43 (34.40%) LangChain
5 37 (29.60%) NumPy
6 30 (24.00%) Kafka
7 29 (23.20%) LlamaIndex
8 25 (20.00%) pgvector
9 13 (10.40%) Streamlit
9 13 (10.40%) XGBoost
10 12 (9.60%) LangGraph
10 12 (9.60%) Matplotlib
11 11 (8.80%) Hugging Face
12 9 (7.20%) Flask
12 9 (7.20%) REST
13 7 (5.60%) FastAPI
13 7 (5.60%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (5.60%) Terraform
14 5 (4.00%) AngularJS
14 5 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 56 (44.80%) Cloud Native
2 24 (19.20%) Clustering
3 23 (18.40%) Public Cloud
4 14 (11.20%) Algorithms
5 12 (9.60%) Product Ownership
6 11 (8.80%) Mobile Banking
7 9 (7.20%) AI Agents
8 7 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (4.80%) Credit Risk
10 4 (3.20%) Blog
11 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
11 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (2.40%) Hackathon
12 1 (0.80%) Acoustics
12 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.80%) Life Science
12 1 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (93.60%) Machine Learning
2 98 (78.40%) AI
3 94 (75.20%) Data Science
4 60 (48.00%) Analytics
4 60 (48.00%) Generative AI
4 60 (48.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 56 (44.80%) Prompt Engineering
6 54 (43.20%) LLM
7 44 (35.20%) Data Pipeline
8 43 (34.40%) Data Engineering
9 41 (32.80%) Feature Engineering
9 41 (32.80%) Use Case
10 39 (31.20%) CI/CD
10 39 (31.20%) Predictive Modelling
11 38 (30.40%) Statistics
12 37 (29.60%) MLOps
13 36 (28.80%) Decision-Making
14 35 (28.00%) Software Engineering
15 33 (26.40%) Business Intelligence
16 29 (23.20%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 118 (94.40%) Python
2 64 (51.20%) SQL
3 6 (4.80%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.20%) Java
5 3 (2.40%) C++
5 3 (2.40%) R
6 1 (0.80%) Bash
6 1 (0.80%) C
6 1 (0.80%) C#
6 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.80%) Scala
6 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (25.60%) Degree
2 16 (12.80%) PhD
2 16 (12.80%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 9 (7.20%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.80%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.40%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.40%) GDPR
2 23 (18.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.00%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.00%) Ansible
2 5 (4.00%) Grafana
2 5 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (27.20%) Databricks
2 23 (18.40%) Cloudera
2 23 (18.40%) Dell
3 16 (12.80%) Microsoft
4 13 (10.40%) OpenAI
5 12 (9.60%) Google
6 2 (1.60%) Foundry
6 2 (1.60%) Workday
7 1 (0.80%) Cognizant