scikit-learn Contracts

scikit-learn
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for scikit-learn skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited scikit-learn over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 650 749
Rank change year-on-year +107 +99 -120
Contract jobs citing scikit-learn 39 53 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.092% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% 0.39% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 46
10th Percentile £463 £460 £450
25th Percentile £488 £484 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £615 £701 £647
90th Percentile £750 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £518 £563
% change year-on-year -0.97% -8.00% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

scikit-learn is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,918 13,466 23,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.74% 23.26% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,178 9,815 17,345
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 155 245
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.30 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.85 £81.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -26.36% +25.24% +14.44%

scikit-learn
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing scikit-learn as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for scikit-learn in the UK

scikit-learn
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing scikit-learn.

Daily rate trend for scikit-learn in the UK

scikit-learn
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing scikit-learn over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

scikit-learn
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing scikit-learn within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 36 £525 -4.55% 47
London +87 34 £525 -4.55% 29
Work from Home +111 10 £688 +34.15% 23
UK excluding London +49 2 £513 -0.97% 18
Midlands +26 1 £550 +10.00% 3
South East +19 1 £475 -13.64% 3
West Midlands +18 1 £550 +10.00% 1

scikit-learn
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 10 (25.64%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.69%) Jupyter
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) GCP
2 9 (23.08%) Azure
3 8 (20.51%) AWS
4 6 (15.38%) Vertex AI
5 4 (10.26%) Dagster
6 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.13%) dbt
7 2 (5.13%) GitHub
7 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Big Data
2 5 (12.82%) BigQuery
3 4 (10.26%) Data Mining
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.13%) Flink
4 2 (5.13%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) MLflow
2 4 (10.26%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) Poetry
General
1 11 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Retail
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Data Scientist
2 13 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Developer
3 3 (7.69%) Lead
3 3 (7.69%) Lead Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Lead Security Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Senior
3 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
4 2 (5.13%) Python Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Machine Learning Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (74.36%) TensorFlow
2 19 (48.72%) Pandas
3 18 (46.15%) PyTorch
4 11 (28.21%) NumPy
5 6 (15.38%) Matplotlib
6 3 (7.69%) Keras
6 3 (7.69%) Plotly
6 3 (7.69%) React
6 3 (7.69%) XGBoost
7 2 (5.13%) GeoPandas
7 2 (5.13%) Great Expectations
7 2 (5.13%) HTML
7 2 (5.13%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (5.13%) LAPP Stack
7 2 (5.13%) PySpark
7 2 (5.13%) SciPy
7 2 (5.13%) Seaborn
8 1 (2.56%) Dask
8 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
8 1 (2.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (46.15%) Algorithms
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.69%) Life Science
3 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 35 (89.74%) Data Science
3 26 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (30.77%) Statistics
5 11 (28.21%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (25.64%) Decision-Making
6 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
7 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
8 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
8 8 (20.51%) Deep Learning
8 8 (20.51%) DevOps
8 8 (20.51%) Mathematics
9 7 (17.95%) Data Analysis
9 7 (17.95%) LLM
9 7 (17.95%) MLOps
9 7 (17.95%) Natural Language Processing
10 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
10 6 (15.38%) Software Architecture
10 6 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 35 (89.74%) Python
2 16 (41.03%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.69%) R
4 2 (5.13%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) Scala
4 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
1 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) PhD
3 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubeflow
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Sparx
3 2 (5.13%) ESRI
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) OpenAI