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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 577 722
Rank change year-on-year -64 +145 -7
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 134 100 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 1.19% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 53 44 36
10th Percentile - £44,125 £53,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +13.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £98,750 £111,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,625 £140,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £53,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -29.25% -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 10,661 8,409 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 16.85% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,780 5,443 11,343
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 19 August 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 19 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 -54 124 £62,500 -26.47% 194
London -16 72 £107,500 +13.16% 108
UK excluding London -90 47 £37,500 -29.25% 128
Work from Home -25 32 £88,750 +42.00% 67
Midlands -29 16 £37,500 -29.91% 18
North of England -35 15 £37,500 -31.82% 27
East Midlands -13 10 £39,250 - 8
North West -11 8 £70,000 +27.27% 17
East of England -31 8 £55,000 +29.41% 13
Yorkshire -22 6 £37,500 -31.82% 5
West Midlands -24 6 £37,500 -29.91% 10
South East -35 5 £70,000 -8.20% 23
Scotland -9 1 £37,500 - 14
North East -56 1 £37,500 - 7
South West -65 1 £37,500 -18.92% 23
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 12

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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 (19.40%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (18.66%) Apache Spark
3 17 (12.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (14.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 102 (76.12%) AWS
2 66 (49.25%) Azure
3 56 (41.79%) GCP
4 34 (25.37%) Power Platform
5 29 (21.64%) Snowflake
6 26 (19.40%) dbt
7 23 (17.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (12.69%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (10.45%) Amazon S3
9 14 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (10.45%) Serverless
10 6 (4.48%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (3.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (3.73%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (3.73%) SaaS
12 4 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.99%) Azure AI
12 4 (2.99%) Google Gemini
13 3 (2.24%) Amazon Bedrock
13 3 (2.24%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.37%) Power BI
2 30 (22.39%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (20.15%) Tableau
4 24 (17.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (17.91%) BigQuery
5 23 (17.16%) Data Lake
5 23 (17.16%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (17.16%) Looker
5 23 (17.16%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (4.48%) Big Data
6 6 (4.48%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.73%) Pinecone
8 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.24%) MySQL
9 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.49%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.49%) Redis
10 2 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (18.66%) MLflow
2 18 (13.43%) Git
3 17 (12.69%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (5.22%) GitLab
5 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.75%) JIRA
6 1 (0.75%) NUnit
6 1 (0.75%) Yeoman
General
1 67 (50.00%) Finance
2 48 (35.82%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.91%) Banking
3 24 (17.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (17.16%) Retail
5 20 (14.93%) Law
5 20 (14.93%) Social Skills
6 19 (14.18%) Marketing
7 18 (13.43%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.73%) Retail Banking
10 4 (2.99%) Legal
10 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.24%) Publishing
12 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (28.36%) Senior
2 32 (23.88%) Data Scientist
3 29 (21.64%) Lead
4 23 (17.16%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (17.16%) Systems Engineer
5 22 (16.42%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 19 (14.18%) Senior Data Scientist
7 14 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 14 (10.45%) Programmer
7 14 (10.45%) Trainee
7 14 (10.45%) Trainee Programmer
8 12 (8.96%) Software Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) Developer
9 11 (8.21%) Lead Data Scientist
10 10 (7.46%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Consultant
13 5 (3.73%) Data Engineer
14 4 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
14 4 (2.99%) Data Science Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (70.15%) PyTorch
2 79 (58.96%) TensorFlow
3 57 (42.54%) Pandas
4 45 (33.58%) NumPy
5 42 (31.34%) LangChain
6 30 (22.39%) Kafka
7 29 (21.64%) LlamaIndex
8 25 (18.66%) pgvector
9 21 (15.67%) Streamlit
10 20 (14.93%) Matplotlib
11 19 (14.18%) Hugging Face
12 15 (11.19%) XGBoost
13 11 (8.21%) LangGraph
14 9 (6.72%) Flask
14 9 (6.72%) REST
15 7 (5.22%) FastAPI
15 7 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (3.73%) AngularJS
16 5 (3.73%) OpenTelemetry
17 4 (2.99%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 55 (41.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (17.91%) Clustering
3 23 (17.16%) Public Cloud
4 22 (16.42%) Algorithms
5 11 (8.21%) Mobile Banking
5 11 (8.21%) Product Ownership
6 9 (6.72%) AI Agents
7 7 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.48%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.99%) Blog
10 3 (2.24%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.24%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.75%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.75%) Life Science
11 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (94.03%) Machine Learning
2 107 (79.85%) AI
3 95 (70.90%) Data Science
4 69 (51.49%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 64 (47.76%) LLM
5 64 (47.76%) Prompt Engineering
6 62 (46.27%) Analytics
7 61 (45.52%) Generative AI
8 45 (33.58%) Data Engineering
9 43 (32.09%) Data Pipeline
10 42 (31.34%) Use Case
11 41 (30.60%) Feature Engineering
12 40 (29.85%) CI/CD
13 39 (29.10%) Predictive Modelling
14 38 (28.36%) MLOps
14 38 (28.36%) Statistics
15 37 (27.61%) Decision-Making
16 34 (25.37%) Software Engineering
17 33 (24.63%) Business Intelligence
18 32 (23.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 127 (94.78%) Python
2 66 (49.25%) SQL
3 6 (4.48%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.99%) Java
5 3 (2.24%) C++
5 3 (2.24%) R
6 1 (0.75%) Bash
6 1 (0.75%) C
6 1 (0.75%) C#
6 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.75%) Scala
6 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (23.88%) Degree
2 17 (12.69%) AWS Certification
2 17 (12.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 16 (11.94%) PhD
3 16 (11.94%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.46%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.48%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.24%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (20.90%) GDPR
2 23 (17.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 8 (5.97%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.73%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 14 (10.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.22%) Terraform
3 5 (3.73%) Ansible
3 5 (3.73%) Grafana
3 5 (3.73%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (25.37%) Databricks
2 24 (17.91%) Microsoft
3 23 (17.16%) Cloudera
3 23 (17.16%) Dell
4 13 (9.70%) OpenAI
5 12 (8.96%) Google
6 2 (1.49%) Foundry
6 2 (1.49%) Workday
7 1 (0.75%) Cognizant