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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 702 635
Rank change year-on-year +120 -67 +185
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 84 50 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.074% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 0.36% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 40 35 51
10th Percentile £43,250 £50,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,188 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -7.64%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £80,627
90th Percentile £101,750 £142,450 £101,185
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 7,364 13,706 13,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 20.33% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,260 8,241 11,383
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,281
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 21 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 21 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 +142 76 £70,000 -17.65% 180
UK excluding London +97 43 £52,500 -16.00% 57
London +68 40 £90,000 -5.26% 141
Work from Home +90 22 £62,500 -24.24% 82
North of England +47 13 £55,000 -21.43% 11
North West +49 8 £60,000 +20.00% 10
East of England +30 7 £56,250 - 3
South East +56 6 £46,250 -26.00% 27
Scotland +14 6 - - 6
Midlands - 6 - - 3
South West +29 4 £42,500 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire +12 4 £55,000 -29.03% 1
East Midlands - 4 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Wales - 1 - - 1
North East - 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 33 (39.29%) Apache Spark
2 11 (13.10%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.76%) Appian
4 3 (3.57%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.19%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (67.86%) AWS
2 41 (48.81%) Azure
3 32 (38.10%) GCP
4 19 (22.62%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (22.62%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (22.62%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 7 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.33%) Prefect
6 6 (7.14%) GitHub
6 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.95%) dbt
7 5 (5.95%) SaaS
7 5 (5.95%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.76%) Azure AI
8 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.76%) Fivetran
8 4 (4.76%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.62%) Delta Lake
1 19 (22.62%) DynamoDB
1 19 (22.62%) Metadata
1 19 (22.62%) Spark SQL
2 8 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.52%) Tableau
3 7 (8.33%) Power BI
4 6 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.95%) Big Data
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.76%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.76%) Looker
6 4 (4.76%) Pinecone
6 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.38%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.38%) MySQL
8 2 (2.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (35.71%) MLflow
2 13 (15.48%) Git
General
1 55 (65.48%) Social Skills
2 28 (33.33%) Finance
3 14 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.10%) Marketing
5 9 (10.71%) Retail
6 8 (9.52%) Banking
7 7 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (8.33%) Law
7 7 (8.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.57%) Electronics
9 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.38%) Legal
11 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (30.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 19 (22.62%) Operations Engineer
3 18 (21.43%) Data Scientist
4 13 (15.48%) Senior
5 8 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (5.95%) Head of AI
7 5 (5.95%) Lead
7 5 (5.95%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Implementation Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Software Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (72.62%) PyTorch
1 61 (72.62%) TensorFlow
2 57 (67.86%) Pandas
3 46 (54.76%) NumPy
4 28 (33.33%) PySpark
5 21 (25.00%) Keras
6 19 (22.62%) Lambda Expressions
6 19 (22.62%) Metaflow
6 19 (22.62%) YAML
7 17 (20.24%) Hugging Face
8 10 (11.90%) LangChain
9 8 (9.52%) FastAPI
9 8 (9.52%) pytest
9 8 (9.52%) REST
9 8 (9.52%) XGBoost
10 7 (8.33%) Kafka
11 5 (5.95%) Django
11 5 (5.95%) Google JAX
11 5 (5.95%) pydantic
11 5 (5.95%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) Algorithms
1 19 (22.62%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.57%) Robotics
5 2 (2.38%) Hackathon
5 2 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.19%) Blog
6 1 (1.19%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.19%) Genomics
6 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.19%) Omics
6 1 (1.19%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (97.62%) Machine Learning
2 70 (83.33%) AI
3 69 (82.14%) Data Science
4 51 (60.71%) MLOps
5 49 (58.33%) CI/CD
6 38 (45.24%) Containerisation
7 36 (42.86%) Visualisation
8 28 (33.33%) Analytics
8 28 (33.33%) LLM
9 26 (30.95%) Natural Language Processing
10 24 (28.57%) Unit Testing
11 23 (27.38%) Software Engineering
12 21 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (25.00%) OO
13 20 (23.81%) Time Management
14 19 (22.62%) Deep Learning
14 19 (22.62%) DevOps
14 19 (22.62%) Mentoring
14 19 (22.62%) Metadata Management
14 19 (22.62%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 84 (100.00%) Python
2 55 (65.48%) SQL
3 8 (9.52%) R
4 6 (7.14%) Java
5 4 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.57%) Bicep
6 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.38%) Bash
7 2 (2.38%) C
7 2 (2.38%) C++
7 2 (2.38%) Go
7 2 (2.38%) PHP
7 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.19%) Julia
8 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (27.38%) Degree
2 17 (20.24%) Master's Degree
3 12 (14.29%) PhD
4 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.57%) Postgraduate
5 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.38%) GDPR
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) SLA
3 1 (1.19%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 43 (51.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (46.43%) Kubernetes
2 26 (30.95%) Kubeflow
3 23 (27.38%) Terraform
4 2 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (26.19%) Databricks
2 8 (9.52%) Google
2 8 (9.52%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.95%) Alteryx
4 4 (4.76%) HubSpot
4 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.76%) Talend
4 4 (4.76%) Zoho
5 3 (3.57%) SAP
6 2 (2.38%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (2.38%) UiPath
7 1 (1.19%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.19%) Foundry