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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 616 725
Rank change year-on-year -1 +109 +14
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 151 62 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 58 36 49
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,875 £54,750
25th Percentile £46,939 £57,938 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,253 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +6.57% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,813 £109,375 £105,000
90th Percentile £105,375 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.90% -6.99%

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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 15 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 August 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 +11 142 £60,000 -33.43% 157
UK excluding London -33 80 £60,000 -13.04% 52
London +2 65 £71,250 -28.75% 123
Work from Home +19 62 £82,500 +10.00% 56
Midlands +2 38 £46,500 -38.00% 2
East Midlands +5 36 - -
South East -20 17 £60,000 +20.00% 14
South West -61 11 £70,000 +64.71% 6
North of England -40 6 £71,000 -2.07% 7
Scotland +16 4 - - 4
East of England -28 4 £77,500 -6.91% 10
North West -6 2 £60,000 -17.24% 6
West Midlands -29 2 £46,500 -5.58% 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East - 2 £82,000 - 1

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 8 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.66%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.54%) AWS
2 19 (12.58%) Azure
2 19 (12.58%) LangSmith
3 16 (10.60%) GCP
4 9 (5.96%) Serverless
5 7 (4.64%) Amazon S3
5 7 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.64%) Azure Machine Learning
6 6 (3.97%) Prefect
6 6 (3.97%) Slack
7 4 (2.65%) SaaS
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (1.99%) GitHub
8 3 (1.99%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.32%) Vertex AI
10 1 (0.66%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.66%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.66%) Google Gemini
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.97%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.99%) Big Data
2 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.32%) MySQL
2 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.32%) Pinecone
2 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.32%) Redis
3 1 (0.66%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.66%) GIS
3 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.66%) Power BI
3 1 (0.66%) QGIS
3 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.66%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (7.95%) Git
2 4 (2.65%) MLflow
3 2 (1.32%) JIRA
4 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
General
1 72 (47.68%) Finance
2 30 (19.87%) Banking
3 28 (18.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.60%) Financial Institution
6 13 (8.61%) Law
7 12 (7.95%) Marketing
8 9 (5.96%) Social Skills
9 8 (5.30%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.65%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.32%) Games
11 2 (1.32%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.66%) French Language
12 1 (0.66%) Legal
12 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (34.44%) Data Scientist
2 51 (33.77%) Lead
3 50 (33.11%) Developer
4 36 (23.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 24 (15.89%) Senior Data Scientist
6 23 (15.23%) Lead Data Scientist
7 21 (13.91%) Python Developer
8 14 (9.27%) Statistician
9 13 (8.61%) Lead Developer
10 10 (6.62%) Machine Learning Scientist
11 8 (5.30%) Senior
12 7 (4.64%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.97%) Research Engineer
14 5 (3.31%) Architect
14 5 (3.31%) Research Scientist
15 4 (2.65%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 4 (2.65%) Python Engineer
15 4 (2.65%) Security Engineer
16 3 (1.99%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 3 (1.99%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (44.37%) PyTorch
2 60 (39.74%) TensorFlow
3 32 (21.19%) Hugging Face
4 26 (17.22%) NumPy
4 26 (17.22%) Pandas
5 23 (15.23%) LangChain
6 22 (14.57%) Model Context Protocol
7 21 (13.91%) LlamaIndex
8 19 (12.58%) Langfuse
9 13 (8.61%) scikit-learn
10 8 (5.30%) Google JAX
10 8 (5.30%) JAX
11 7 (4.64%) OpenCV
11 7 (4.64%) SciPy
12 6 (3.97%) TFX
13 4 (2.65%) Flask
13 4 (2.65%) REST
14 3 (1.99%) Keras
14 3 (1.99%) ONNX
14 3 (1.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (29.14%) Algorithms
2 30 (19.87%) Cloud Native
3 25 (16.56%) AI Agents
4 16 (10.60%) e-Learning
5 11 (7.28%) Blog
6 7 (4.64%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (3.97%) Over-the-Top Content
7 6 (3.97%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (2.65%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.32%) Stable Diffusion
11 1 (0.66%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.66%) BBC
11 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.66%) Life Science
11 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.66%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.31%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Android
2 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (78.15%) Machine Learning
2 94 (62.25%) AI
3 87 (57.62%) Data Science
4 60 (39.74%) LLM
5 58 (38.41%) Software Engineering
6 54 (35.76%) Statistics
7 48 (31.79%) Actionable Insight
7 48 (31.79%) Generative AI
8 45 (29.80%) Roadmaps
9 43 (28.48%) Mentoring
10 42 (27.81%) Project Management
11 38 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (22.52%) Computer Vision
13 32 (21.19%) Agile
13 32 (21.19%) Computer Science
13 32 (21.19%) Prompt Engineering
14 30 (19.87%) MLOps
15 26 (17.22%) Natural Language Processing
16 25 (16.56%) Validation
17 24 (15.89%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 124 (82.12%) Python
2 32 (21.19%) SQL
3 10 (6.62%) Java
4 8 (5.30%) C++
5 4 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.66%) C#
7 1 (0.66%) R
7 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (32.45%) Degree
2 16 (10.60%) PhD
3 15 (9.93%) DV Cleared
3 15 (9.93%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.30%) DBS Check
5 7 (4.64%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.99%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.66%) ACCA
9 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.66%) CIMA
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.32%) NCSC
2 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 16 (10.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.96%) Kubeflow
3 6 (3.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (7.95%) Databricks
2 7 (4.64%) Google
3 5 (3.31%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.99%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.32%) Revolut
6 1 (0.66%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.66%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.66%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.66%) Foundry