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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 631 739
Rank change year-on-year +36 +108 +104
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 65 64 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.082%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 0.56% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25 43 24
10th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.26% -5.99%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £93,000 £105,500 £110,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -26.92% - +9.99%

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 7,361 11,379 16,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.60% 21.80% 24.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5,408 6,673 13,729
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,067
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 30 January 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 30 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 +61 61 £70,000 -17.65% 109
London +58 44 £75,000 -21.05% 51
UK excluding London +35 18 £47,500 -26.92% 90
Work from Home +47 6 £73,750 +14.34% 32
South East +25 5 £52,500 -16.00% 24
East of England +28 4 £70,000 - 8
South West +8 3 £37,500 -16.67% 8
North of England -1 3 £70,000 -17.65% 24
North West +21 2 £72,500 -15.94% 11
West Midlands - 2 £41,250 - 4
Midlands - 2 £41,250 - 12
Scotland -15 1 £37,500 -42.31% 8
North East - 1 £37,500 - 3

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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 15 (23.08%) Appian
2 10 (15.38%) Apache Spark
3 7 (10.77%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (10.77%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (64.62%) Azure
2 31 (47.69%) AWS
3 22 (33.85%) GCP
4 17 (26.15%) Azure AI
5 11 (16.92%) Anthropic Claude
5 11 (16.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (16.92%) Power Automate
6 8 (12.31%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (6.15%) Datadog
7 4 (6.15%) GitHub
7 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.15%) Prefect
8 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.54%) dbt
9 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.54%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) Pinecone
2 11 (16.92%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.77%) Big Data
3 7 (10.77%) Tableau
4 5 (7.69%) MySQL
5 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (6.15%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.15%) Weaviate
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.54%) Mixpanel
6 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (35.38%) MLflow
2 5 (7.69%) Git
3 4 (6.15%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
General
1 35 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 25 (38.46%) Finance
3 13 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (16.92%) Manufacturing
5 10 (15.38%) Marketing
6 9 (13.85%) Retail
7 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
9 3 (4.62%) Electronics
9 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
10 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (3.08%) Law
11 1 (1.54%) Banking
11 1 (1.54%) Digital Economy
11 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Senior
2 14 (21.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 13 (20.00%) Data Scientist
4 11 (16.92%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (15.38%) Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Consultant
6 6 (9.23%) Data Consultant
6 6 (9.23%) Lead
7 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 4 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 4 (6.15%) Data Science Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Development Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Programmer
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Trainee
8 4 (6.15%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (80.00%) PyTorch
2 50 (76.92%) TensorFlow
3 45 (69.23%) Pandas
4 31 (47.69%) NumPy
5 20 (30.77%) REST
6 19 (29.23%) FastAPI
7 17 (26.15%) Hugging Face
7 17 (26.15%) LangChain
8 16 (24.62%) Django
9 14 (21.54%) Flask
9 14 (21.54%) pytest
10 12 (18.46%) RESTful
11 11 (16.92%) Faiss
11 11 (16.92%) JWT
11 11 (16.92%) Matplotlib
11 11 (16.92%) OAuth
11 11 (16.92%) OpenAPI
11 11 (16.92%) Swagger
11 11 (16.92%) Web Services
12 8 (12.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.62%) Algorithms
2 11 (16.92%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (16.92%) Low-Code
3 9 (13.85%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (6.15%) Hackathon
6 3 (4.62%) Life Science
7 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.54%) Genomics
8 1 (1.54%) Omics
8 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.54%) Social Network
8 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (98.46%) Machine Learning
2 57 (87.69%) AI
3 46 (70.77%) LLM
4 44 (67.69%) Data Science
5 35 (53.85%) MLOps
6 33 (50.77%) CI/CD
7 27 (41.54%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 25 (38.46%) Containerisation
9 24 (36.92%) Analytics
9 24 (36.92%) Data Engineering
9 24 (36.92%) Prompt Engineering
10 22 (33.85%) Workflow
11 21 (32.31%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (32.31%) Generative AI
11 21 (32.31%) Natural Language Processing
12 20 (30.77%) Validation
12 20 (30.77%) Visualisation
13 18 (27.69%) Feature Engineering
13 18 (27.69%) Open Source
14 17 (26.15%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 65 (100.00%) Python
2 31 (47.69%) SQL
3 13 (20.00%) R
4 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.23%) Java
6 5 (7.69%) PHP
7 4 (6.15%) Go
7 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.62%) Bicep
9 1 (1.54%) C
9 1 (1.54%) C++
9 1 (1.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (33.85%) Degree
2 14 (21.54%) Master's Degree
3 7 (10.77%) PhD
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.15%) SLA
3 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 37 (56.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (44.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.69%) Ansible
2 5 (7.69%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.54%) Grafana
4 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) OpenAI
2 11 (16.92%) Automation Anywhere
2 11 (16.92%) UiPath
3 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.23%) Databricks
5 5 (7.69%) Foundry
6 4 (6.15%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (6.15%) Fortinet
6 4 (6.15%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.62%) SAP
8 2 (3.08%) Google
9 1 (1.54%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.54%) Amplitude