XGBoost
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring XGBoost skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited XGBoost over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 885 951
Rank change year-on-year +195 +66 +240
Permanent jobs citing XGBoost 12 22 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.021% 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.10% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 8 22 15
10th Percentile £68,568 £46,306 £51,833
25th Percentile £70,097 £50,979 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,576 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% +0.82% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £75,000 £85,625
90th Percentile - £111,125 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £67,071
% change year-on-year +2.84% +4.37% -13.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

XGBoost 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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

XGBoost
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XGBoost as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XGBoost in the UK

XGBoost
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XGBoost.

Salary trend for XGBoost in the UK

XGBoost
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XGBoost over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for XGBoost in the UK

XGBoost
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XGBoost within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +166 12 £71,991 +2.01% 26
UK excluding London +177 9 £71,991 +2.84% 8
Work from Home +115 9 £71,991 +2.01% 12
South West +112 4 £71,991 +21.88%
London +101 3 £95,000 -5.00% 22
East Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
North of England +36 2 £70,000 +18.51% 4
Yorkshire +53 1 £70,000 +18.51% 2
North West - 1 - - 2

XGBoost
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
1 4 (33.33%) Vertex AI
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 3 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (25.00%) Parquet
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (25.00%) Spark SQL
1 3 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Marketing
4 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 7 (58.33%) Senior Data Scientist
3 3 (25.00%) Data Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Pandas
1 4 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 3 (25.00%) PyMC3
2 3 (25.00%) PySpark
2 3 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (25.00%) Statsmodels
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (25.00%) Sports Betting
3 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Data Science
1 11 (91.67%) Machine Learning
2 8 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 8 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
3 6 (50.00%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) Random Forest
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Data Validation
4 4 (33.33%) Decision Tree
4 4 (33.33%) Econometrics
4 4 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 4 (33.33%) Gradient Boosting
4 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 4 (33.33%) Model Validation
4 4 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
5 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks