Deep Learning Job Trends in England

Deep Learning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 601 592
Rank change year-on-year +52 -9 +239
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 49 70 104
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.094% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 30 42 69
10th Percentile £46,745 £37,500 £47,150
25th Percentile £57,251 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -21.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £79,438 £90,901 £97,500
90th Percentile £101,500 £95,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -29.41% +13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Deep Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,481 43,790 44,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.29% 90.69% 89.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25,455 21,528 34,408
10th Percentile £28,560 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Deep Learning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Deep Learning job vacancy trend in England

Deep Learning
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Deep Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deep Learning in England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in England

Deep Learning
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Learning within the England region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
London +48 32 £60,000 -32.48% 29
South East +26 6 £65,000 -10.34% 49
South West +8 4 £90,000 +24.14% 19
West Midlands +27 3 £67,500 +68.75% 7
East of England +14 3 £67,500 - 28
Midlands +14 3 £67,500 +68.75% 15
North West +19 1 £65,000 +8.33% 5
North of England +14 1 £65,000 +8.33% 17
Deep Learning
UK

Deep Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (16.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.20%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) AWS
1 9 (18.37%) Azure
2 5 (10.20%) GCP
3 3 (6.12%) Serverless
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
4 2 (4.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.04%) Datadog
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.04%) PaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Big Data
2 4 (8.16%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.04%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) MLflow
2 5 (10.20%) Git
3 4 (8.16%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (14.29%) Finance
5 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.16%) Marketing
7 3 (6.12%) Aerospace
8 2 (4.08%) Law
8 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Advertising
9 1 (2.04%) Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Billing
9 1 (2.04%) Digital Economy
9 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Legal
9 1 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (2.04%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Data Scientist
2 10 (20.41%) Senior
3 8 (16.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Data Scientist
5 3 (6.12%) Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Lead
5 3 (6.12%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 3 (6.12%) Principal Data Scientist
6 2 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.08%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) CUDA Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) CUDA Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Head of Data Science
6 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Data Consultant
7 1 (2.04%) Data Science Leader
7 1 (2.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (48.98%) PyTorch
2 21 (42.86%) TensorFlow
3 8 (16.33%) scikit-learn
4 3 (6.12%) EDI
4 3 (6.12%) Google JAX
4 3 (6.12%) JAX
4 3 (6.12%) Kafka
5 2 (4.08%) LangChain
5 2 (4.08%) Pandas
5 2 (4.08%) pydantic
5 2 (4.08%) XGBoost
6 1 (2.04%) Caffe
6 1 (2.04%) Django
6 1 (2.04%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.04%) Flask
6 1 (2.04%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.04%) NetworkX
6 1 (2.04%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (2.04%) Streamlit
6 1 (2.04%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.73%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) CUDA
4 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.04%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.04%) Social Network
5 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (83.67%) AI
2 39 (79.59%) Machine Learning
3 30 (61.22%) Data Science
4 23 (46.94%) LLM
5 16 (32.65%) Computer Science
5 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (30.61%) Computer Vision
6 15 (30.61%) Mathematics
7 14 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
8 12 (24.49%) Generative AI
8 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
8 12 (24.49%) Statistics
9 11 (22.45%) MLOps
10 9 (18.37%) Analytics
10 9 (18.37%) Data Analysis
10 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
11 8 (16.33%) Issue Tracking
11 8 (16.33%) Predictive Modelling
12 7 (14.29%) Physics
12 7 (14.29%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 37 (75.51%) Python
2 8 (16.33%) SQL
3 3 (6.12%) C++
3 3 (6.12%) Java
3 3 (6.12%) R
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) C
4 1 (2.04%) Go
4 1 (2.04%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.04%) Perl
4 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) Degree
2 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
4 12 (24.49%) PhD
5 5 (10.20%) Master's Degree
6 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.08%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Kubeflow
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) Foundry
3 1 (2.04%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) SAP
3 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow