Deep Learning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 576 716
Rank change year-on-year -42 +140 +122
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 106 81 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 69 46 107
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -13.55% +6.90%
75th Percentile - £93,778 £96,539
90th Percentile £96,250 £111,250 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £49,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.83% -24.23% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Deep Learning job vacancy trend in the UK

Deep Learning
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Deep Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deep Learning over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Learning within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England -29 103 £58,831 -8.79% 60
London +3 57 £57,661 -39.30% 38
UK excluding London -71 46 £60,000 +21.83% 21
Work from Home +8 35 £55,000 -15.38% 25
South East -9 19 £60,000 - 8
Midlands -39 13 £50,000 +11.11% 4
East Midlands -39 8 - - 2
East of England -29 6 £100,000 +56.25% 3
South West -51 6 £60,000 +41.18% 3
West Midlands -36 5 £50,000 +17.65% 2
North West -32 2 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North of England -67 2 £60,000 -7.69% 4

Deep Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (8.49%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.94%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.32%) AWS
2 9 (8.49%) Azure
3 6 (5.66%) SaaS
3 6 (5.66%) Slack
4 5 (4.72%) GCP
4 5 (4.72%) Prefect
5 4 (3.77%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (3.77%) LangSmith
6 3 (2.83%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.83%) Serverless
6 3 (2.83%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.89%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.94%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.94%) Dialogflow
8 1 (0.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) Big Data
1 4 (3.77%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.89%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.94%) GIS
3 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.94%) Power BI
3 1 (0.94%) QGIS
3 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.94%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (11.32%) Git
2 4 (3.77%) MLflow
3 2 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (22.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (17.92%) Finance
3 17 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.72%) Financial Institution
4 5 (4.72%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Banking
5 4 (3.77%) Marketing
5 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Advertising
7 1 (0.94%) Billing
7 1 (0.94%) Digital Economy
7 1 (0.94%) French Language
7 1 (0.94%) Law
7 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (22.64%) Developer
2 23 (21.70%) Data Scientist
3 22 (20.75%) Python Developer
4 18 (16.98%) Senior
5 17 (16.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 16 (15.09%) Lead
7 12 (11.32%) Senior Data Scientist
8 8 (7.55%) Lead Data Scientist
9 5 (4.72%) Research Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Research Scientist
10 4 (3.77%) Security Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Architect
11 3 (2.83%) C++ Software Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) CUDA Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) CUDA Software Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Machine Learning Scientist
12 2 (1.89%) Analyst
12 2 (1.89%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (49.06%) PyTorch
2 41 (38.68%) TensorFlow
3 26 (24.53%) Pandas
4 24 (22.64%) NumPy
5 12 (11.32%) Hugging Face
6 10 (9.43%) Google JAX
6 10 (9.43%) JAX
7 8 (7.55%) OpenCV
8 7 (6.60%) LangChain
8 7 (6.60%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (6.60%) SciPy
9 6 (5.66%) scikit-learn
9 6 (5.66%) TFX
10 5 (4.72%) LlamaIndex
11 4 (3.77%) EDI
12 2 (1.89%) Django
12 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
12 2 (1.89%) Flask
12 2 (1.89%) Keras
12 2 (1.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 44 (41.51%) Algorithms
2 9 (8.49%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.55%) Blog
4 6 (5.66%) Over-the-Top Content
4 6 (5.66%) Video\Live Streaming
5 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.72%) CUDA
6 4 (3.77%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.83%) Robotics
8 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.89%) Lidar
8 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.89%) Self-Driving Car
9 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.94%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.94%) Life Science
9 1 (0.94%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.72%) Linux
2 2 (1.89%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (64.15%) Machine Learning
2 67 (63.21%) AI
3 54 (50.94%) Data Science
4 43 (40.57%) Computer Vision
5 36 (33.96%) LLM
6 30 (28.30%) Generative AI
7 29 (27.36%) Software Engineering
8 26 (24.53%) Computer Science
8 26 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (22.64%) Statistics
10 23 (21.70%) Signal Processing
11 18 (16.98%) Mathematics
11 18 (16.98%) Mentoring
11 18 (16.98%) Test Automation
12 17 (16.04%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (15.09%) Roadmaps
14 15 (14.15%) MLOps
15 14 (13.21%) Natural Language Processing
16 13 (12.26%) Analytics
16 13 (12.26%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 81 (76.42%) Python
2 7 (6.60%) SQL
3 6 (5.66%) C++
4 4 (3.77%) Java
5 3 (2.83%) R
6 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.94%) Scala
6 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (38.68%) Degree
2 26 (24.53%) PhD
2 26 (24.53%) Security Cleared
3 14 (13.21%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.38%) DV Cleared
5 8 (7.55%) DBS Check
6 6 (5.66%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.94%) ACCA
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.94%) CIMA
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (12.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Kubeflow
1 6 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) Databricks
2 5 (4.72%) Google
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.83%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.94%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.94%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.94%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.94%) Foundry
5 1 (0.94%) Intel