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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 637 758
Rank change year-on-year +111 +121 -108
Contract jobs citing scikit-learn 45 50 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.088% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 0.38% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 41
10th Percentile £463 £480 £450
25th Percentile £500 £494 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £645 £704 £688
90th Percentile £770 £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 8,924 13,173 23,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.96% 23.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,621 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £665
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £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 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing scikit-learn over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for scikit-learn in the UK

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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 18 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 +99 40 £525 -4.55% 58
London +97 38 £525 -16.00% 41
Work from Home +105 12 £750 +36.36% 17
UK excluding London +52 2 £513 -0.97% 28
South East +32 1 £475 -13.64% 15
West Midlands +23 1 £550 +10.00% 2
Midlands +23 1 £550 +10.00% 3

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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 9 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (15.56%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) GCP
3 10 (22.22%) AWS
4 6 (13.33%) Vertex AI
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) ChatGPT
6 3 (6.67%) Dagster
6 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.22%) dbt
8 1 (2.22%) GitHub
8 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.22%) Serverless
8 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Big Data
2 5 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 4 (8.89%) Data Mining
3 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.44%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) Flink
5 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
1 6 (13.33%) MLflow
2 3 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Poetry
General
1 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Retail
4 5 (11.11%) Finance
5 3 (6.67%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Data Scientist
2 16 (35.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Senior Data Scientist
5 3 (6.67%) Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Lead Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Lead Security Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Machine Learning Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (77.78%) TensorFlow
2 22 (48.89%) PyTorch
3 18 (40.00%) Pandas
4 13 (28.89%) NumPy
5 7 (15.56%) Matplotlib
6 5 (11.11%) HTML
7 4 (8.89%) XGBoost
8 3 (6.67%) Keras
8 3 (6.67%) LangChain
8 3 (6.67%) Plotly
8 3 (6.67%) React
8 3 (6.67%) Torch
9 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
9 2 (4.44%) GeoPandas
9 2 (4.44%) Google JAX
9 2 (4.44%) PySpark
10 1 (2.22%) Dask
10 1 (2.22%) Great Expectations
10 1 (2.22%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (2.22%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (42.22%) Algorithms
2 5 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.67%) Life Science
3 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (95.56%) Machine Learning
2 36 (80.00%) Data Science
3 30 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
5 11 (24.44%) Statistics
6 10 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 10 (22.22%) DevOps
6 10 (22.22%) LLM
6 10 (22.22%) MLOps
7 9 (20.00%) Deep Learning
7 9 (20.00%) Mathematics
8 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
8 8 (17.78%) Natural Language Processing
8 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
9 7 (15.56%) Data Analysis
10 6 (13.33%) Analytics
10 6 (13.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (91.11%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) SQL
3 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.67%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) Go
4 3 (6.67%) Java
4 3 (6.67%) R
5 2 (4.44%) Scala
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
1 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) PhD
3 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) NCSC
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.33%) Kubeflow
3 3 (6.67%) Grafana
4 2 (4.44%) Terraform
5 1 (2.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) Sparx
2 3 (6.67%) Splunk
3 2 (4.44%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) ESRI
4 1 (2.22%) OpenAI