Deep Learning Job Trends

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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 564 690
Rank change year-on-year -57 +126 +167
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 77 84 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 55 44 101
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -17.33% +4.90%
75th Percentile £81,250 £86,550 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,625 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% +6.12%

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 59,378 39,636 75,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.65% 93.47% 86.94%
Number of salaries quoted 35,975 22,340 56,751
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,830 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 22 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 9 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 22 March 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 -15 73 £60,000 - 71
London +12 46 £60,000 -32.48% 36
UK excluding London -70 27 £60,000 +33.33% 47
Work from Home +9 25 £61,250 -12.50% 32
South East -16 9 £60,000 -17.24% 21
West Midlands -6 7 £55,000 +37.50% 2
East of England -19 7 £100,000 +56.25% 4
Midlands -38 7 £55,000 +37.50% 3
South West -27 4 £65,000 +52.94% 6

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 (11.69%) Jupyter
2 5 (6.49%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.60%) Confluence
5 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Azure
3 6 (7.79%) SaaS
4 4 (5.19%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (5.19%) Prefect
4 4 (5.19%) Serverless
4 4 (5.19%) Slack
5 3 (3.90%) GCP
5 3 (3.90%) GitHub
5 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.60%) Vertex AI
7 1 (1.30%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Big Data
1 4 (5.19%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.60%) Data Mining
2 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.60%) Power BI
2 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.30%) GIS
3 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.30%) QGIS
3 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Git
2 4 (5.19%) MLflow
3 2 (2.60%) JIRA
4 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
General
1 16 (20.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Finance
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.79%) Marketing
6 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.60%) Advertising
7 2 (2.60%) Law
7 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Billing
8 1 (1.30%) Digital Economy
8 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.30%) French Language
8 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Legal
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
8 1 (1.30%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) Senior
2 15 (19.48%) Data Scientist
3 10 (12.99%) Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Python Developer
5 8 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Lead
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (5.19%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) CUDA Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) CUDA Software Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Data Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) Data Science Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Machine Learning Scientist
9 3 (3.90%) Principal Data Scientist
10 2 (2.60%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Head of Data Science
10 2 (2.60%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (55.84%) PyTorch
2 32 (41.56%) TensorFlow
3 13 (16.88%) Pandas
4 11 (14.29%) NumPy
5 9 (11.69%) Google JAX
5 9 (11.69%) JAX
6 7 (9.09%) OpenCV
6 7 (9.09%) scikit-learn
7 6 (7.79%) SciPy
8 4 (5.19%) EDI
8 4 (5.19%) TFX
9 3 (3.90%) Hugging Face
9 3 (3.90%) LangChain
9 3 (3.90%) Model Context Protocol
10 2 (2.60%) Django
10 2 (2.60%) FastAPI
10 2 (2.60%) Flask
10 2 (2.60%) Keras
10 2 (2.60%) REST
10 2 (2.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (44.16%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.49%) CUDA
3 4 (5.19%) Over-the-Top Content
3 4 (5.19%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.90%) Robotics
5 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.60%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Lidar
5 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.60%) Self-Driving Car
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Social Network
6 1 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (74.03%) AI
2 55 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 42 (54.55%) Data Science
4 31 (40.26%) LLM
5 28 (36.36%) Computer Vision
6 25 (32.47%) Generative AI
7 22 (28.57%) Computer Science
8 20 (25.97%) Software Engineering
9 18 (23.38%) Mathematics
9 18 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (22.08%) Natural Language Processing
10 17 (22.08%) Statistics
11 15 (19.48%) Analytics
11 15 (19.48%) Test Automation
12 14 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (16.88%) Issue Tracking
14 12 (15.58%) Data Analysis
14 12 (15.58%) Mentoring
14 12 (15.58%) Physics
15 11 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 59 (76.62%) Python
2 7 (9.09%) C++
2 7 (9.09%) SQL
3 4 (5.19%) Java
3 4 (5.19%) R
4 1 (1.30%) C
4 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.30%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.30%) Scala
4 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (42.86%) Degree
2 22 (28.57%) PhD
3 19 (24.68%) Security Cleared
4 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.79%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.30%) ACCA
8 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.30%) CIMA
8 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.30%) EU AI Act
1 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (15.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Kubeflow
3 2 (2.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Databricks
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.19%) Google
4 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.30%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.30%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.30%) Foundry
5 1 (1.30%) Intel
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) SAP
5 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow