Deep Learning Job Trends in the North West

Deep Learning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 208 -
Rank change year-on-year +30 - -
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 2 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.032% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.15% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £43,375 £43,650 -
25th Percentile £46,563 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -
75th Percentile £61,563 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £65,125 - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,125 4,670 3,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.69% 90.29% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,471 2,293 2,702
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,389 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Deep Learning job vacancy trend in the North West

Deep Learning
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Deep Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deep Learning in the North West over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the North West

Deep Learning
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Learning within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +16 2 £53,750 -17.31% 1
Deep Learning
England

Deep Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI