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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 601 714
Rank change year-on-year -71 +113 +1
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 121 87 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 0.96% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 39 44 36
10th Percentile £33,750 £44,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £45,250 £52,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +17.24% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £98,750 £108,125
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,625 £140,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -19.23% +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 11,885 9,018 17,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 18.00% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,635 5,877 11,651
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,932 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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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 31 August 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 31 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 -59 113 £70,000 -17.65% 150
London -16 72 £107,500 +13.16% 74
UK excluding London -127 35 £61,250 +16.67% 101
Work from Home -31 33 £88,750 +51.06% 36
Midlands -26 15 £41,000 -23.36% 16
East Midlands -18 11 £41,000 - 10
East of England -12 7 £55,000 +29.41% 12
North of England -74 7 £70,000 +27.27% 24
North West -11 5 £70,000 +27.27% 13
South East -35 5 £70,000 +33.33% 26
West Midlands -26 4 £50,000 -6.54% 6
Yorkshire -40 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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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 (21.49%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (20.66%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (4.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 90 (74.38%) AWS
2 66 (54.55%) Azure
3 58 (47.93%) GCP
4 34 (28.10%) Power Platform
5 27 (22.31%) Snowflake
6 26 (21.49%) dbt
7 23 (19.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (12.40%) Amazon S3
8 15 (12.40%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (12.40%) Serverless
9 6 (4.96%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (3.31%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (3.31%) Azure AI
11 4 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.31%) Google Gemini
11 4 (3.31%) SaaS
12 3 (2.48%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (2.48%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.10%) Power BI
2 30 (24.79%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (22.31%) Tableau
4 24 (19.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (19.83%) BigQuery
5 23 (19.01%) Data Lake
5 23 (19.01%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (19.01%) Looker
5 23 (19.01%) Milvus
5 23 (19.01%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (4.96%) Big Data
6 6 (4.96%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.13%) Pinecone
8 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.48%) MySQL
9 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.65%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (19.01%) MLflow
2 19 (15.70%) Git
3 7 (5.79%) GitLab
4 4 (3.31%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.83%) JIRA
6 1 (0.83%) NUnit
6 1 (0.83%) Yeoman
General
1 55 (45.45%) Finance
2 46 (38.02%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (21.49%) Banking
4 23 (19.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (16.53%) Law
5 20 (16.53%) Social Skills
6 19 (15.70%) Marketing
7 10 (8.26%) Retail
8 6 (4.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (4.13%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.13%) Retail Banking
10 4 (3.31%) Legal
10 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.48%) Publishing
12 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (30.58%) Senior
2 30 (24.79%) Data Scientist
3 28 (23.14%) Lead
4 23 (19.01%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (19.01%) Systems Engineer
5 22 (18.18%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 17 (14.05%) Senior Data Scientist
7 15 (12.40%) Software Engineer
8 11 (9.09%) Developer
8 11 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) Lead Data Scientist
10 8 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Consultant
12 5 (4.13%) Data Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 4 (3.31%) Data Consultant
13 4 (3.31%) Data Science Consultant
13 4 (3.31%) Security Consultant
14 3 (2.48%) Junior
14 3 (2.48%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (76.86%) PyTorch
2 78 (64.46%) TensorFlow
3 44 (36.36%) LangChain
3 44 (36.36%) Pandas
4 32 (26.45%) NumPy
5 30 (24.79%) Kafka
6 29 (23.97%) LlamaIndex
7 25 (20.66%) pgvector
8 13 (10.74%) LangGraph
8 13 (10.74%) XGBoost
9 9 (7.44%) REST
10 8 (6.61%) Flask
10 8 (6.61%) Streamlit
10 8 (6.61%) Terraform
11 7 (5.79%) FastAPI
11 7 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (4.96%) Hugging Face
12 6 (4.96%) Matplotlib
13 5 (4.13%) AngularJS
13 5 (4.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 57 (47.11%) Cloud Native
2 24 (19.83%) Clustering
3 23 (19.01%) Public Cloud
4 13 (10.74%) Product Ownership
5 11 (9.09%) Mobile Banking
6 9 (7.44%) AI Agents
6 9 (7.44%) Algorithms
7 7 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.96%) Credit Risk
9 4 (3.31%) Blog
10 3 (2.48%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.48%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.83%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.83%) Life Science
11 1 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (93.39%) Machine Learning
2 96 (79.34%) Data Science
3 93 (76.86%) AI
4 61 (50.41%) Generative AI
5 60 (49.59%) Analytics
6 56 (46.28%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 51 (42.15%) Prompt Engineering
8 48 (39.67%) LLM
9 46 (38.02%) Data Pipeline
10 43 (35.54%) Data Engineering
11 42 (34.71%) Use Case
12 41 (33.88%) CI/CD
12 41 (33.88%) Feature Engineering
13 39 (32.23%) Predictive Modelling
13 39 (32.23%) Statistics
14 38 (31.40%) MLOps
15 37 (30.58%) Software Engineering
16 36 (29.75%) Decision-Making
17 33 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
18 29 (23.97%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 114 (94.21%) Python
2 64 (52.89%) SQL
3 6 (4.96%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.31%) Java
5 3 (2.48%) C++
5 3 (2.48%) R
6 1 (0.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) C
6 1 (0.83%) C#
6 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.83%) Scala
6 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (25.62%) Degree
2 16 (13.22%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.40%) PhD
4 9 (7.44%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.96%) DBS Check
6 5 (4.13%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.48%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (23.14%) GDPR
2 23 (19.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 8 (6.61%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.13%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 14 (11.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (10.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.13%) Ansible
2 5 (4.13%) Grafana
2 5 (4.13%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.65%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (28.10%) Databricks
2 23 (19.01%) Cloudera
2 23 (19.01%) Dell
3 13 (10.74%) OpenAI
4 12 (9.92%) Google
5 11 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.65%) Foundry
6 2 (1.65%) Mistral
6 2 (1.65%) Workday
7 1 (0.83%) Cognizant