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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 693 872 946
Rank change year-on-year +179 +74 +191
Permanent jobs citing XGBoost 13 26 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.026% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 26 28
10th Percentile £69,077 £46,306 £51,833
25th Percentile £70,097 £65,000 £53,941
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,576 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% +2.55% -1.68%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,188 £80,779
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,625 £88,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,288 £59,098
% change year-on-year +2.42% +18.94% -23.75%

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 8,858 21,074 30,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.19% 21.24% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,395 15,767 18,787
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,907
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +7.89%
75th Percentile £87,500 £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 11 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 11 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 +151 13 £71,991 +2.01% 22
UK excluding London +179 9 £71,991 +2.42% 6
Work from Home +150 9 £71,991 +2.01% 10
South West +107 4 £71,991 +21.88%
London +104 4 £95,000 -5.00% 20
East Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
North of England +60 2 £70,000 -0.82% 1
Yorkshire +63 1 £70,000 -0.82%
North West - 1 - - 1

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 (23.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (15.38%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) Vertex AI
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (23.08%) Parquet
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (23.08%) Spark SQL
1 3 (23.08%) Tableau
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Marketing
4 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Retail
5 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Scientist
2 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) Senior Data Scientist
3 3 (23.08%) Data Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Pandas
2 4 (30.77%) scikit-learn
3 3 (23.08%) PySpark
3 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
4 2 (15.38%) Matplotlib
4 2 (15.38%) PyMC3
4 2 (15.38%) Statsmodels
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
1 4 (30.77%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Data Science
1 12 (92.31%) Machine Learning
2 10 (76.92%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (76.92%) Decision-Making
3 8 (61.54%) Random Forest
4 7 (53.85%) Analytics
4 7 (53.85%) Statistical Modelling
5 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (30.77%) Data Validation
6 4 (30.77%) Decision Tree
6 4 (30.77%) Econometrics
6 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
6 4 (30.77%) Gradient Boosting
6 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 4 (30.77%) Model Validation
6 4 (30.77%) Statistical Analysis
6 4 (30.77%) Validation
7 3 (23.08%) Business Strategy
7 3 (23.08%) Objectives and Key Results
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubeflow
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks