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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 644 655
Rank change year-on-year +72 +11 +171
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 70 59 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 0.51% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 33 38 32
10th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £54,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,750 £94,688 £86,250
90th Percentile £99,500 £109,750 £100,816
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +8.33%

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 7,052 11,638 13,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.44% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,256 6,862 10,885
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £41,039
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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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 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

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Top 11 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 7 January 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 +107 68 £70,000 -17.65% 102
London +68 48 £75,000 -18.92% 51
UK excluding London +55 20 £50,000 -23.08% 66
Work from Home +48 17 £70,000 +9.80% 68
South East +30 8 £50,000 -20.00% 26
East of England +25 6 £56,250 - 11
South West +9 3 £42,500 -5.56% 9
North West +23 2 £72,500 +1.75% 7
North of England +11 2 £72,500 -14.71% 10
Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 2

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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 14 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 12 (17.14%) Appian
3 11 (15.71%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.29%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (72.86%) Azure
2 35 (50.00%) AWS
3 31 (44.29%) GCP
4 14 (20.00%) Azure AI
5 13 (18.57%) Azure Machine Learning
6 8 (11.43%) Anthropic Claude
6 8 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (11.43%) GitHub
6 8 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (11.43%) Power Automate
7 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 7 (10.00%) Prefect
8 5 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (7.14%) dbt
8 5 (7.14%) SaaS
9 4 (5.71%) Datadog
9 4 (5.71%) Fivetran
9 4 (5.71%) Google Data Studio
9 4 (5.71%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) Pinecone
1 12 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.71%) Tableau
3 8 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (10.00%) Big Data
4 7 (10.00%) Power BI
5 5 (7.14%) MySQL
5 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (5.71%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.71%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.71%) Looker
6 4 (5.71%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.43%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 23 (32.86%) MLflow
2 10 (14.29%) Git
General
1 40 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 23 (32.86%) Finance
3 16 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (20.00%) Marketing
5 9 (12.86%) Retail
6 7 (10.00%) Manufacturing
7 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
9 3 (4.29%) Electronics
9 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.86%) Banking
10 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.86%) Law
11 1 (1.43%) Digital Economy
11 1 (1.43%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (25.71%) Senior
2 15 (21.43%) Data Scientist
3 13 (18.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Lead
7 6 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Consultant
7 6 (8.57%) Data Consultant
7 6 (8.57%) Data Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Data Scientist
8 5 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 4 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Data Science Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Development Manager
9 4 (5.71%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (75.71%) PyTorch
1 53 (75.71%) TensorFlow
2 45 (64.29%) Pandas
3 30 (42.86%) NumPy
4 19 (27.14%) Hugging Face
5 17 (24.29%) LangChain
6 16 (22.86%) FastAPI
6 16 (22.86%) REST
7 13 (18.57%) Django
8 11 (15.71%) Flask
8 11 (15.71%) pytest
9 9 (12.86%) RESTful
10 8 (11.43%) JWT
10 8 (11.43%) OAuth
10 8 (11.43%) OpenAPI
10 8 (11.43%) PySpark
10 8 (11.43%) React
10 8 (11.43%) Swagger
10 8 (11.43%) Web Services
10 8 (11.43%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.57%) Algorithms
2 10 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (12.86%) Cloud Native
4 8 (11.43%) Low-Code
5 7 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.71%) Hackathon
7 3 (4.29%) Life Science
8 2 (2.86%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.43%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.43%) Genomics
9 1 (1.43%) Omics
9 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.43%) Robotics
9 1 (1.43%) Social Network
9 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (97.14%) Machine Learning
2 59 (84.29%) AI
3 50 (71.43%) Data Science
4 44 (62.86%) LLM
5 37 (52.86%) MLOps
6 31 (44.29%) Analytics
6 31 (44.29%) CI/CD
7 27 (38.57%) Natural Language Processing
8 25 (35.71%) Containerisation
9 24 (34.29%) Data Engineering
10 22 (31.43%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (28.57%) Generative AI
11 20 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 20 (28.57%) Validation
12 18 (25.71%) DevOps
12 18 (25.71%) Open Source
12 18 (25.71%) Prompt Engineering
13 17 (24.29%) Decision-Making
13 17 (24.29%) ETL
14 16 (22.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 70 (100.00%) Python
2 39 (55.71%) SQL
3 12 (17.14%) R
4 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.57%) Java
6 5 (7.14%) PHP
7 4 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (5.71%) Go
7 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.29%) Bicep
9 2 (2.86%) Bash
10 1 (1.43%) C
10 1 (1.43%) C++
10 1 (1.43%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (35.71%) Degree
2 16 (22.86%) Master's Degree
3 8 (11.43%) PhD
4 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.43%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.71%) SLA
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 36 (51.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Kubeflow
3 4 (5.71%) Ansible
3 4 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (30.00%) OpenAI
2 8 (11.43%) Automation Anywhere
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) UiPath
3 6 (8.57%) Databricks
3 6 (8.57%) Google
4 5 (7.14%) Alteryx
4 5 (7.14%) Foundry
5 4 (5.71%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (5.71%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.71%) HubSpot
5 4 (5.71%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.71%) Talend
5 4 (5.71%) Zoho
6 3 (4.29%) SAP
7 1 (1.43%) Amplitude