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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 661 608
Rank change year-on-year +53 -53 +209
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 46 81 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32 46 67
10th Percentile £43,875 £37,500 £46,800
25th Percentile £60,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,250 £68,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -14.06% +3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,938 £96,539
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £122,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +62.50% -42.86% +21.74%

All Process and 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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 11 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 13 December 2025. 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 +77 44 £69,250 -4.48% 138
London +68 27 £95,000 +18.75% 27
UK excluding London +68 17 £65,000 +62.50% 131
Work from Home +71 15 £71,000 -2.07% 107
South East +40 4 £65,000 -10.34% 37
South West +30 4 £90,000 +24.14% 18
East of England +22 4 £68,750 -14.06% 26
Midlands +31 3 £67,500 +68.75% 16
West Midlands +30 3 £67,500 +68.75% 9
North West +39 2 £53,750 -10.42% 12
North of England +27 2 £53,750 -10.42% 22

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 11 (23.91%) Apache Spark
2 6 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (41.30%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) AWS
3 13 (28.26%) GCP
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Machine Learning
4 5 (10.87%) Prefect
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (8.70%) Serverless
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Datadog
7 1 (2.17%) Dialogflow
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Big Data
2 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
5 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) MLflow
2 10 (21.74%) Git
3 4 (8.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Finance
4 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.70%) Marketing
6 3 (6.52%) Aerospace
6 3 (6.52%) Law
7 2 (4.35%) Advertising
7 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Billing
8 1 (2.17%) Electronics
8 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Publishing
8 1 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (2.17%) Spanish Language
8 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Data Scientist
3 6 (13.04%) Head of AI
3 6 (13.04%) Senior
4 3 (6.52%) Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Head of Architecture
5 2 (4.35%) Head of Data Science
5 2 (4.35%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (4.35%) Head of Strategy
5 2 (4.35%) Principal Data Scientist
5 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Associate Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Compiler Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Data Science Consultant
6 1 (2.17%) Data Science Leader
6 1 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (56.52%) PyTorch
2 25 (54.35%) TensorFlow
3 17 (36.96%) scikit-learn
4 9 (19.57%) Hugging Face
5 7 (15.22%) Kafka
6 5 (10.87%) Google JAX
6 5 (10.87%) JAX
7 4 (8.70%) LangChain
8 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
8 3 (6.52%) ONNX
9 2 (4.35%) Django
9 2 (4.35%) LangGraph
9 2 (4.35%) Pandas
9 2 (4.35%) pydantic
9 2 (4.35%) RESTful
9 2 (4.35%) XGBoost
10 1 (2.17%) Caffe
10 1 (2.17%) JWT
10 1 (2.17%) Keras
10 1 (2.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.52%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.52%) Robotics
5 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Stable Diffusion
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (89.13%) AI
2 40 (86.96%) Machine Learning
3 25 (54.35%) Data Science
4 24 (52.17%) LLM
5 21 (45.65%) Natural Language Processing
6 18 (39.13%) MLOps
7 17 (36.96%) Computer Vision
8 16 (34.78%) Software Engineering
9 14 (30.43%) Computer Science
10 13 (28.26%) Containerisation
10 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (23.91%) Generative AI
12 10 (21.74%) Mathematics
12 10 (21.74%) Mentoring
12 10 (21.74%) Reinforcement Learning
13 9 (19.57%) Agile
13 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
13 9 (19.57%) Neural Network
13 9 (19.57%) Prototyping
13 9 (19.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (76.09%) Python
2 12 (26.09%) SQL
3 6 (13.04%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) R
5 3 (6.52%) Bash
5 3 (6.52%) C++
6 2 (4.35%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) C
7 1 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Rust
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Degree
2 11 (23.91%) Master's Degree
3 6 (13.04%) PhD
3 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (8.70%) MCP
6 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.22%) Kubeflow
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.35%) Databricks
3 2 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Foundry
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow