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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 575 802
Rank change year-on-year -8 +227 +59
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 142 83 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.087%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.60% 0.97% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 71 46 29
10th Percentile - £57,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £62,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £85,253 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.01% +31.16% -13.33%
75th Percentile £41,250 £101,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £117,500 £116,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -53.13% +23.08% +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 8,854 8,592 20,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.68% 19.67% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,467 6,328 15,788
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 7 May 2026.

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 May 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 -5 128 £37,500 -57.14% 86
UK excluding London -21 78 £37,500 -53.13% 71
London +1 56 £75,000 -21.05% 36
North of England -25 34 £37,500 -55.88% 21
North West -3 17 £37,500 -56.01% 11
Midlands -8 17 £37,500 -29.91% 13
Work from Home -19 13 £70,000 +9.38% 25
Yorkshire -47 12 £37,500 -41.41% 6
West Midlands -13 10 £37,500 -29.91% 5
East of England -17 9 - - 3
East Midlands - 7 £37,500 - 8
Scotland -11 6 £37,500 -46.43% 8
South West -52 6 £37,500 -38.78% 8
South East -21 5 £46,250 -53.75% 17
North East - 5 £37,500 - 4
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 54 (38.03%) Jupyter
2 28 (19.72%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (19.72%) Apache Spark
3 16 (11.27%) Appian
Applications
1 55 (38.73%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.70%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 106 (74.65%) AWS
2 62 (43.66%) Azure
3 54 (38.03%) Cloud Computing
4 41 (28.87%) GCP
5 29 (20.42%) Power Platform
6 25 (17.61%) Snowflake
7 23 (16.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (16.20%) dbt
8 16 (11.27%) Azure AI
9 14 (9.86%) Anthropic Claude
10 13 (9.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (8.45%) Power Automate
12 9 (6.34%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (3.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.82%) Datadog
14 4 (2.82%) GitHub
14 4 (2.82%) Prefect
14 4 (2.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.42%) Power BI
2 27 (19.01%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (18.31%) Tableau
4 25 (17.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (16.20%) BigQuery
5 23 (16.20%) Data Lake
5 23 (16.20%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (16.20%) Looker
5 23 (16.20%) Snowflake Schema
6 19 (13.38%) Pinecone
7 12 (8.45%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.52%) Big Data
9 4 (2.82%) MySQL
9 4 (2.82%) Weaviate
10 3 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.11%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.41%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.70%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 54 (38.03%) Visual Studio Code
2 45 (31.69%) MLflow
3 7 (4.93%) GitLab
4 6 (4.23%) Git
5 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 78 (54.93%) Finance
2 60 (42.25%) Retail
3 54 (38.03%) Manufacturing
4 40 (28.17%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (15.49%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.82%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Digital Economy
9 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (35.92%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 51 (35.92%) Programmer
1 51 (35.92%) Trainee
1 51 (35.92%) Trainee Programmer
2 37 (26.06%) Senior
3 23 (16.20%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 23 (16.20%) Systems Engineer
4 18 (12.68%) Data Scientist
5 15 (10.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (8.45%) Automation Engineer
6 12 (8.45%) Lead
7 11 (7.75%) Developer
8 10 (7.04%) Senior Data Scientist
9 7 (4.93%) Machine Learning Scientist
10 6 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Lead Data Scientist
11 5 (3.52%) Consultant
11 5 (3.52%) Data Consultant
11 5 (3.52%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.82%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (66.90%) Pandas
2 80 (56.34%) NumPy
2 80 (56.34%) PyTorch
3 69 (48.59%) Hugging Face
4 68 (47.89%) TensorFlow
5 58 (40.85%) Matplotlib
6 54 (38.03%) Streamlit
7 35 (24.65%) LangChain
8 29 (20.42%) Kafka
9 25 (17.61%) LlamaIndex
9 25 (17.61%) pgvector
10 22 (15.49%) REST
11 18 (12.68%) FastAPI
12 16 (11.27%) Django
13 14 (9.86%) Flask
14 13 (9.15%) pytest
14 13 (9.15%) RESTful
15 12 (8.45%) OAuth
15 12 (8.45%) Swagger
15 12 (8.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (42.25%) Algorithms
2 31 (21.83%) Cloud Native
3 24 (16.90%) Clustering
4 23 (16.20%) Public Cloud
5 12 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (8.45%) Low-Code
6 9 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.82%) Hackathon
8 4 (2.82%) Life Science
9 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.70%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.70%) Social Media
10 1 (0.70%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (99.30%) Machine Learning
2 129 (90.85%) AI
3 106 (74.65%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 100 (70.42%) Prompt Engineering
5 97 (68.31%) LLM
6 73 (51.41%) Workflow
7 66 (46.48%) OO
7 66 (46.48%) Visualisation
8 65 (45.77%) Data Science
9 60 (42.25%) Neural Network
10 59 (41.55%) Conversational UI
11 56 (39.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 54 (38.03%) Customer Service
12 54 (38.03%) Data Privacy
12 54 (38.03%) OOP
12 54 (38.03%) Sentiment Analysis
13 49 (34.51%) Generative AI
14 47 (33.10%) Data Engineering
15 46 (32.39%) Analytics
16 42 (29.58%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 141 (99.30%) Python
2 55 (38.73%) SQL
3 14 (9.86%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.34%) R
5 6 (4.23%) Java
6 4 (2.82%) Go
6 4 (2.82%) PHP
6 4 (2.82%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.41%) C++
8 1 (0.70%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (38.03%) AWS Certification
1 54 (38.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 20 (14.08%) Degree
3 9 (6.34%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.23%) DBS Check
4 6 (4.23%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.52%) PhD
6 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (16.20%) GDPR
2 16 (11.27%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.82%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (25.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (23.94%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.04%) Terraform
3 9 (6.34%) Ansible
4 5 (3.52%) Grafana
4 5 (3.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 59 (41.55%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.94%) Databricks
3 25 (17.61%) OpenAI
4 23 (16.20%) Cloudera
4 23 (16.20%) Dell
5 12 (8.45%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (8.45%) UiPath
6 9 (6.34%) Google
7 4 (2.82%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.82%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.82%) Foundry
7 4 (2.82%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.70%) Cognizant