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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 650 650
Rank change year-on-year +68 0 +170
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 69 61 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.51% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 34 40 33
10th Percentile £40,250 £45,000 £54,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £59,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £81,563 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,250 £108,250 £101,185
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 7,011 11,847 12,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 21.45% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,218 7,037 10,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,900 £41,250
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 £106,289
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 1 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 1 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 +93 67 £70,000 -17.65% 109
London +45 47 £75,000 -16.14% 69
UK excluding London +61 20 £50,000 -23.08% 54
Work from Home +67 17 £70,000 +9.80% 46
South East +31 8 £50,000 -20.00% 19
East of England +27 6 £56,250 - 7
South West +6 3 £42,500 -5.56% 9
North West +26 2 £72,500 +1.75% 9
North of England +22 2 £72,500 -14.71% 11
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 3
Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 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 14 (20.29%) Apache Spark
2 11 (15.94%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (15.94%) Appian
3 3 (4.35%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (71.01%) Azure
2 35 (50.72%) AWS
3 31 (44.93%) GCP
4 12 (17.39%) Azure AI
4 12 (17.39%) Azure Machine Learning
5 8 (11.59%) GitHub
5 8 (11.59%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (10.14%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (10.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (10.14%) Power Automate
6 7 (10.14%) Power Platform
6 7 (10.14%) Prefect
7 5 (7.25%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (7.25%) dbt
7 5 (7.25%) SaaS
7 5 (7.25%) Snowflake
8 4 (5.80%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.80%) Fivetran
8 4 (5.80%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) Pinecone
1 11 (15.94%) SQL Server
1 11 (15.94%) Tableau
2 8 (11.59%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.14%) Big Data
3 7 (10.14%) Power BI
4 5 (7.25%) MySQL
4 5 (7.25%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.80%) BigQuery
5 4 (5.80%) Hadoop
5 4 (5.80%) Looker
5 4 (5.80%) Weaviate
6 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.45%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 21 (30.43%) MLflow
2 11 (15.94%) Git
General
1 38 (55.07%) Social Skills
2 22 (31.88%) Finance
3 16 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (20.29%) Marketing
5 9 (13.04%) Retail
6 7 (10.14%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.35%) Electronics
8 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.90%) Banking
9 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.90%) Law
10 1 (1.45%) Digital Economy
10 1 (1.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Senior
2 15 (21.74%) Data Scientist
3 12 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (13.04%) Developer
5 7 (10.14%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Lead
6 6 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (7.25%) Consultant
7 5 (7.25%) Data Consultant
7 5 (7.25%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Data Science Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Development Manager
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (73.91%) PyTorch
1 51 (73.91%) TensorFlow
2 44 (63.77%) Pandas
3 29 (42.03%) NumPy
4 18 (26.09%) Hugging Face
5 16 (23.19%) LangChain
6 15 (21.74%) FastAPI
6 15 (21.74%) REST
7 12 (17.39%) Django
8 10 (14.49%) Flask
8 10 (14.49%) pytest
9 8 (11.59%) RESTful
10 7 (10.14%) JWT
10 7 (10.14%) Matplotlib
10 7 (10.14%) OAuth
10 7 (10.14%) OpenAPI
10 7 (10.14%) React
10 7 (10.14%) Swagger
10 7 (10.14%) Web Services
10 7 (10.14%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.29%) Algorithms
2 9 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.14%) Low-Code
4 4 (5.80%) Hackathon
5 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.35%) Life Science
6 2 (2.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.45%) Genomics
7 1 (1.45%) Omics
7 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.45%) Robotics
7 1 (1.45%) Social Network
7 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (97.10%) Machine Learning
2 57 (82.61%) AI
3 50 (72.46%) Data Science
4 42 (60.87%) LLM
5 37 (53.62%) MLOps
6 31 (44.93%) Analytics
6 31 (44.93%) CI/CD
7 26 (37.68%) Natural Language Processing
8 24 (34.78%) Containerisation
9 22 (31.88%) Data Engineering
10 21 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (27.54%) DevOps
11 19 (27.54%) Generative AI
11 19 (27.54%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 19 (27.54%) Validation
12 17 (24.64%) Decision-Making
12 17 (24.64%) Open Source
13 16 (23.19%) ETL
13 16 (23.19%) Prompt Engineering
13 16 (23.19%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (100.00%) Python
2 38 (55.07%) SQL
3 11 (15.94%) R
4 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.70%) Java
6 5 (7.25%) PHP
7 4 (5.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (5.80%) Go
7 4 (5.80%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.35%) Bicep
8 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.90%) Bash
10 1 (1.45%) C
10 1 (1.45%) C++
10 1 (1.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 24 (34.78%) Degree
2 16 (23.19%) Master's Degree
3 8 (11.59%) PhD
4 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.80%) SLA
3 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.45%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 35 (50.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.25%) Kubeflow
2 5 (7.25%) Terraform
3 4 (5.80%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (27.54%) OpenAI
2 7 (10.14%) Automation Anywhere
2 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) UiPath
3 6 (8.70%) Google
4 5 (7.25%) Alteryx
4 5 (7.25%) Databricks
5 4 (5.80%) Foundry
5 4 (5.80%) HubSpot
5 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.80%) Talend
5 4 (5.80%) Zoho
6 3 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (4.35%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.35%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.35%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) Amplitude