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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 704 589 700
Rank change year-on-year -115 +111 -3
Permanent jobs citing scikit-learn 97 84 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 0.99% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 34 41 35
10th Percentile £38,825 £43,750 £47,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £52,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £108,438 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £118,125 £111,250 £142,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -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 11,983 8,463 16,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 17.29% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,544 5,410 10,431
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,513 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +5.40% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -115 89 £70,000 -6.67% 336
London -50 58 £107,500 +13.16% 216
Work from Home -34 31 £107,500 +79.17% 100
UK excluding London -157 26 £67,500 +28.57% 160
Midlands -41 11 £61,250 +14.49% 22
East Midlands -23 9 £50,500 - 10
South East -46 6 £70,000 +40.00% 35
North of England -74 6 £70,000 +27.27% 33
North West -40 5 £70,000 +27.27% 21
East of England -32 2 £55,000 -2.22% 19
West Midlands -50 2 £103,750 +93.93% 12
Yorkshire -47 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 11

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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 8 (8.25%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 68 (70.10%) AWS
2 49 (50.52%) Azure
3 40 (41.24%) GCP
4 15 (15.46%) Power Platform
5 14 (14.43%) Amazon S3
5 14 (14.43%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (14.43%) Serverless
6 8 (8.25%) Snowflake
7 7 (7.22%) dbt
8 6 (6.19%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (4.12%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (4.12%) Azure AI
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (4.12%) Google Gemini
9 4 (4.12%) SaaS
10 3 (3.09%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (3.09%) GitHub
11 2 (2.06%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.46%) Power BI
2 12 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.25%) Tableau
4 6 (6.19%) Big Data
4 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (5.15%) BigQuery
5 5 (5.15%) Pinecone
6 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.12%) Looker
6 4 (4.12%) Milvus
6 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.12%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (3.09%) MySQL
7 3 (3.09%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.06%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.06%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (19.59%) Git
2 6 (6.19%) GitLab
2 6 (6.19%) MLflow
3 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) JIRA
4 1 (1.03%) NUnit
4 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.03%) Yeoman
General
1 52 (53.61%) Finance
2 28 (28.87%) Banking
3 26 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (23.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
6 20 (20.62%) Law
7 19 (19.59%) Marketing
8 6 (6.19%) Retail
9 5 (5.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (5.15%) Retail Banking
10 4 (4.12%) Legal
10 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
11 3 (3.09%) Publishing
12 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
12 2 (2.06%) Aviation
12 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
13 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (27.84%) Lead
2 26 (26.80%) Data Scientist
3 20 (20.62%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 17 (17.53%) Software Engineer
5 16 (16.49%) Senior
6 14 (14.43%) Senior Data Scientist
7 13 (13.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) Lead Data Scientist
9 8 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Developer
11 6 (6.19%) Consultant
11 6 (6.19%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Data Consultant
12 4 (4.12%) Data Science Consultant
12 4 (4.12%) Security Consultant
12 4 (4.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
13 2 (2.06%) AWS Engineer
13 2 (2.06%) Backend Developer
13 2 (2.06%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (74.23%) PyTorch
2 63 (64.95%) TensorFlow
3 42 (43.30%) Pandas
4 30 (30.93%) NumPy
5 27 (27.84%) LangChain
6 15 (15.46%) LangGraph
7 10 (10.31%) Kafka
7 10 (10.31%) LlamaIndex
8 9 (9.28%) FastAPI
8 9 (9.28%) REST
8 9 (9.28%) XGBoost
9 8 (8.25%) Flask
10 7 (7.22%) Terraform
11 6 (6.19%) pgvector
11 6 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (5.15%) Hugging Face
12 5 (5.15%) PySpark
12 5 (5.15%) Streamlit
13 4 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (4.12%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 40 (41.24%) Cloud Native
2 18 (18.56%) Product Ownership
3 11 (11.34%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (9.28%) AI Agents
5 8 (8.25%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.19%) Credit Risk
6 6 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (5.15%) Clustering
8 4 (4.12%) Blog
8 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
9 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
9 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (3.09%) Hackathon
10 2 (2.06%) CUDA
10 2 (2.06%) Synthetic Data
11 1 (1.03%) Acoustics
11 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (1.03%) Life Science
11 1 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (90.72%) Machine Learning
2 75 (77.32%) Data Science
3 71 (73.20%) AI
4 43 (44.33%) Analytics
4 43 (44.33%) LLM
5 42 (43.30%) CI/CD
5 42 (43.30%) Generative AI
6 41 (42.27%) MLOps
6 41 (42.27%) Software Engineering
7 37 (38.14%) Decision-Making
8 33 (34.02%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 33 (34.02%) Statistics
9 30 (30.93%) Prompt Engineering
10 29 (29.90%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (27.84%) Computer Science
12 25 (25.77%) Data Engineering
12 25 (25.77%) Use Case
13 24 (24.74%) Deep Learning
14 23 (23.71%) Feature Engineering
14 23 (23.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (92.78%) Python
2 46 (47.42%) SQL
3 6 (6.19%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.12%) Java
5 3 (3.09%) C++
5 3 (3.09%) R
6 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.03%) Bash
7 1 (1.03%) C
7 1 (1.03%) C#
7 1 (1.03%) Scala
7 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (29.90%) Degree
2 17 (17.53%) Security Cleared
3 13 (13.40%) PhD
4 7 (7.22%) Master's Degree
5 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.15%) DBS Check
6 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.34%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.28%) GDPR
3 5 (5.15%) EU AI Act
4 4 (4.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 13 (13.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.12%) Ansible
2 4 (4.12%) Grafana
2 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.06%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Databricks
2 13 (13.40%) OpenAI
3 11 (11.34%) Google
4 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.12%) Cloudera
5 4 (4.12%) Dell
6 2 (2.06%) Foundry
6 2 (2.06%) Mistral
6 2 (2.06%) Thales
6 2 (2.06%) Workday
7 1 (1.03%) Cognizant