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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 586 712
Rank change year-on-year -74 +126 +13
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 122 86 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 0.95% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 41 43 36
10th Percentile £33,750 £44,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £52,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +13.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £116,250 £140,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -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 11,957 9,008 17,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.93% 17.99% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,704 5,872 12,112
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,025 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £63,056
Median % change year-on-year - +7.05% -6.58%
75th Percentile £85,897 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £108,750
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 27 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 27 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 -67 114 £70,000 -17.65% 254
London -21 71 £107,500 +13.16% 153
UK excluding London -113 37 £57,500 +8.49% 142
Work from Home -36 32 £88,750 +47.92% 89
Midlands -20 16 £39,250 -26.64% 21
East Midlands -13 11 £41,000 - 11
North of England -49 8 £70,000 +27.27% 33
East of England -28 7 £55,000 +29.41% 14
North West -14 5 £70,000 +27.27% 21
West Midlands -31 5 £37,500 -29.91% 10
South East -33 5 £70,000 -8.20% 28
Yorkshire -37 3 £37,500 -31.82% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10

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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 (21.31%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (20.49%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (6.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 91 (74.59%) AWS
2 65 (53.28%) Azure
3 57 (46.72%) GCP
4 34 (27.87%) Power Platform
5 27 (22.13%) Snowflake
6 26 (21.31%) dbt
7 23 (18.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (12.30%) Amazon S3
8 15 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (12.30%) Serverless
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (3.28%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (3.28%) Azure AI
11 4 (3.28%) Google Gemini
11 4 (3.28%) SaaS
12 3 (2.46%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (2.46%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.87%) Power BI
2 30 (24.59%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (22.13%) Tableau
4 24 (19.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (19.67%) BigQuery
5 23 (18.85%) Data Lake
5 23 (18.85%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (18.85%) Looker
5 23 (18.85%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (4.92%) Big Data
6 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.10%) Pinecone
8 4 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.46%) MySQL
9 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.64%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.64%) Redis
10 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (18.85%) MLflow
2 19 (15.57%) Git
3 7 (5.74%) GitLab
4 6 (4.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.82%) JIRA
6 1 (0.82%) NUnit
6 1 (0.82%) Yeoman
General
1 56 (45.90%) Finance
2 46 (37.70%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (20.49%) Banking
4 23 (18.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (16.39%) Law
5 20 (16.39%) Social Skills
6 19 (15.57%) Marketing
7 12 (9.84%) Retail
8 7 (5.74%) Manufacturing
9 6 (4.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (4.10%) Retail Banking
11 4 (3.28%) Legal
11 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.46%) Publishing
13 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (30.33%) Senior
2 30 (24.59%) Data Scientist
3 28 (22.95%) Lead
4 23 (18.85%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (18.85%) Systems Engineer
5 22 (18.03%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 17 (13.93%) Senior Data Scientist
7 14 (11.48%) Software Engineer
8 11 (9.02%) Developer
9 10 (8.20%) Lead Data Scientist
9 10 (8.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 8 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Consultant
12 5 (4.10%) Data Engineer
13 4 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 4 (3.28%) Data Consultant
13 4 (3.28%) Data Science Consultant
13 4 (3.28%) Security Consultant
14 3 (2.46%) Trainee
14 3 (2.46%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (75.41%) PyTorch
2 77 (63.11%) TensorFlow
3 46 (37.70%) Pandas
4 43 (35.25%) LangChain
5 34 (27.87%) NumPy
6 30 (24.59%) Kafka
7 29 (23.77%) LlamaIndex
8 25 (20.49%) pgvector
9 13 (10.66%) XGBoost
10 12 (9.84%) LangGraph
11 10 (8.20%) Streamlit
12 9 (7.38%) REST
13 8 (6.56%) Flask
13 8 (6.56%) Hugging Face
13 8 (6.56%) Matplotlib
13 8 (6.56%) Terraform
14 7 (5.74%) FastAPI
14 7 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (4.10%) AngularJS
15 5 (4.10%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 56 (45.90%) Cloud Native
2 24 (19.67%) Clustering
3 23 (18.85%) Public Cloud
4 12 (9.84%) Product Ownership
5 11 (9.02%) Algorithms
5 11 (9.02%) Mobile Banking
6 9 (7.38%) AI Agents
7 7 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.92%) Credit Risk
9 4 (3.28%) Blog
10 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.46%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.82%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.82%) Life Science
11 1 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (93.44%) Machine Learning
2 95 (77.87%) Data Science
3 94 (77.05%) AI
4 60 (49.18%) Analytics
4 60 (49.18%) Generative AI
5 57 (46.72%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 53 (43.44%) Prompt Engineering
7 50 (40.98%) LLM
8 45 (36.89%) Data Pipeline
9 43 (35.25%) Data Engineering
10 41 (33.61%) Feature Engineering
10 41 (33.61%) Use Case
11 40 (32.79%) CI/CD
12 39 (31.97%) Predictive Modelling
12 39 (31.97%) Statistics
13 37 (30.33%) MLOps
14 36 (29.51%) Decision-Making
14 36 (29.51%) Software Engineering
15 33 (27.05%) Business Intelligence
16 29 (23.77%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 115 (94.26%) Python
2 64 (52.46%) SQL
3 6 (4.92%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.28%) Java
5 3 (2.46%) C++
5 3 (2.46%) R
6 1 (0.82%) Bash
6 1 (0.82%) C
6 1 (0.82%) C#
6 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.82%) Scala
6 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (25.41%) Degree
2 16 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.30%) PhD
4 9 (7.38%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.74%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.92%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.46%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.95%) GDPR
2 23 (18.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 8 (6.56%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.10%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 14 (11.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (10.66%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.10%) Ansible
2 5 (4.10%) Grafana
2 5 (4.10%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.64%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (27.87%) Databricks
2 23 (18.85%) Cloudera
2 23 (18.85%) Dell
3 13 (10.66%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.66%) OpenAI
4 12 (9.84%) Google
5 2 (1.64%) Foundry
5 2 (1.64%) Workday
6 1 (0.82%) Cognizant