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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 586 687 655
Rank change year-on-year +101 -32 +146
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 80 55 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.081% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 0.40% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 39 32 55
10th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £62,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +5.36% -9.68%
75th Percentile £96,875 £98,750 £81,563
90th Percentile £98,000 £148,675 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -3.85%

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 7,599 13,771 14,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.98% 20.23% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,098 8,311 11,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,460
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.70% +0.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 +124 72 £70,000 -9.68% 325
UK excluding London +88 43 £52,500 -16.00% 211
London +49 36 £87,500 -7.89% 213
Work from Home +53 22 £62,500 -16.67% 174
North of England +23 13 £55,000 -22.81% 37
North West +29 8 £60,000 -2.04% 32
East of England +39 7 £56,250 - 4
Midlands +55 6 - - 6
South East +35 6 £46,250 -26.00% 138
Scotland 0 6 - - 10
South West +42 4 £42,500 -5.56% 8
Yorkshire +17 4 £55,000 -29.03% 3
East Midlands - 4 - - 2
West Midlands +47 2 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 - - 5

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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 34 (42.50%) Apache Spark
2 9 (11.25%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.75%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.50%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (71.25%) AWS
2 38 (47.50%) Azure
3 30 (37.50%) GCP
4 19 (23.75%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (23.75%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (23.75%) Amazon S3
5 8 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (8.75%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.25%) dbt
7 5 (6.25%) Prefect
7 5 (6.25%) SaaS
7 5 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.00%) Fivetran
8 4 (5.00%) GitHub
8 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.00%) Google Data Studio
9 2 (2.50%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.75%) Delta Lake
1 19 (23.75%) DynamoDB
1 19 (23.75%) Metadata
1 19 (23.75%) Spark SQL
2 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (10.00%) Tableau
3 7 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.75%) Power BI
4 6 (7.50%) Big Data
5 4 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.00%) Looker
5 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.75%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.50%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.25%) MySQL
8 1 (1.25%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 28 (35.00%) MLflow
2 13 (16.25%) Git
General
1 52 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.50%) Finance
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Marketing
5 9 (11.25%) Retail
6 8 (10.00%) Banking
7 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (8.75%) Law
7 7 (8.75%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.75%) Electronics
9 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.50%) Legal
11 1 (1.25%) Czech Language
11 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (33.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 19 (23.75%) Data Scientist
2 19 (23.75%) Operations Engineer
3 14 (17.50%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) Senior Data Scientist
5 6 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Head of AI
6 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Implementation Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Lead
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Software Integration Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (71.25%) PyTorch
1 57 (71.25%) TensorFlow
2 53 (66.25%) Pandas
3 44 (55.00%) NumPy
4 28 (35.00%) PySpark
5 21 (26.25%) Keras
6 19 (23.75%) Lambda Expressions
6 19 (23.75%) Metaflow
6 19 (23.75%) YAML
7 15 (18.75%) Hugging Face
8 9 (11.25%) LangChain
9 8 (10.00%) XGBoost
10 7 (8.75%) Kafka
11 6 (7.50%) pytest
12 5 (6.25%) Google JAX
12 5 (6.25%) JAX
12 5 (6.25%) pydantic
12 5 (6.25%) Seaborn
13 4 (5.00%) FastAPI
13 4 (5.00%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Algorithms
2 19 (23.75%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.75%) Robotics
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.25%) Blog
6 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.25%) Genomics
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Omics
6 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (97.50%) Machine Learning
2 69 (86.25%) Data Science
3 65 (81.25%) AI
4 47 (58.75%) MLOps
5 44 (55.00%) CI/CD
6 36 (45.00%) Visualisation
7 35 (43.75%) Containerisation
8 25 (31.25%) Analytics
8 25 (31.25%) Natural Language Processing
9 24 (30.00%) Unit Testing
10 23 (28.75%) Software Engineering
11 22 (27.50%) LLM
12 21 (26.25%) Deep Learning
13 20 (25.00%) Time Management
14 19 (23.75%) Information Security
14 19 (23.75%) Metadata Management
14 19 (23.75%) OO
14 19 (23.75%) OOP
14 19 (23.75%) OWASP
14 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Python
2 53 (66.25%) SQL
3 8 (10.00%) R
4 4 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (5.00%) Java
5 3 (3.75%) Bicep
6 2 (2.50%) Bash
6 2 (2.50%) C
6 2 (2.50%) C++
7 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.25%) Julia
7 1 (1.25%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Degree
2 19 (23.75%) Master's Degree
3 13 (16.25%) PhD
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.75%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) MCP
6 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 38 (47.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (42.50%) Kubernetes
2 26 (32.50%) Kubeflow
3 21 (26.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (27.50%) Databricks
2 8 (10.00%) Google
3 5 (6.25%) Alteryx
4 4 (5.00%) HubSpot
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.00%) Talend
4 4 (5.00%) Zoho
5 3 (3.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.25%) Foundry