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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 628 692
Rank change year-on-year +6 +64 -15
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 184 45 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 64 29 45
10th Percentile £45,375 £43,250 £51,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +18.75% +3.23%
75th Percentile £87,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,875 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,250 £68,750
% change year-on-year +1.27% -13.82% +3.77%

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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 16 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 10 September 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 +6 175 £60,000 -36.84% 182
UK excluding London -33 100 £60,000 +1.27% 57
London -12 79 £82,500 -17.50% 144
Work from Home +9 60 £86,250 +15.00% 60
Midlands -5 43 £46,500 -38.00% 10
East Midlands +10 36 - - 7
South East -5 19 £60,000 +20.00% 10
East of England -20 12 £47,500 -53.66% 7
South West -70 11 £70,000 +64.71% 11
North of England -48 10 £82,000 +39.57% 8
West Midlands -23 7 £46,500 -13.08% 3
North East - 6 £82,000 - 3
Scotland +10 4 - - 3
North West -15 2 £60,000 +2.13% 4
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.54%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.65%) AWS
2 27 (14.67%) Azure
3 25 (13.59%) LangSmith
4 20 (10.87%) GCP
5 13 (7.07%) Serverless
6 11 (5.98%) Amazon S3
6 11 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.80%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.80%) Prefect
8 6 (3.26%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.72%) PaaS
9 5 (2.72%) Slack
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (2.17%) Google Gemini
10 4 (2.17%) SaaS
11 3 (1.63%) Vertex AI
12 2 (1.09%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.09%) dbt
12 2 (1.09%) GitHub
13 1 (0.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.98%) Big Data
2 6 (3.26%) Data Mining
3 5 (2.72%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.72%) Oracle BI EE
3 5 (2.72%) Power BI
3 5 (2.72%) QlikView
3 5 (2.72%) Tableau
4 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.09%) MySQL
4 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.09%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.09%) Redis
5 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.54%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.52%) Git
2 8 (4.35%) MLflow
3 2 (1.09%) JIRA
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
General
1 86 (46.74%) Finance
2 40 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (18.48%) Banking
4 22 (11.96%) Financial Institution
5 20 (10.87%) Law
6 19 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (9.24%) Marketing
7 17 (9.24%) Social Skills
8 13 (7.07%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.89%) Legal
10 5 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.09%) Aviation
12 2 (1.09%) Games
12 2 (1.09%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (36.96%) Lead
2 53 (28.80%) Data Scientist
3 51 (27.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 49 (26.63%) Developer
5 26 (14.13%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (13.04%) Lead Data Scientist
7 20 (10.87%) Python Developer
8 17 (9.24%) Machine Learning Scientist
9 14 (7.61%) Statistician
10 13 (7.07%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.43%) Senior
12 7 (3.80%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) Research Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) Architect
14 5 (2.72%) Research Scientist
15 4 (2.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 4 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
15 4 (2.17%) Python Engineer
15 4 (2.17%) Security Engineer
15 4 (2.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (46.20%) PyTorch
2 78 (42.39%) TensorFlow
3 34 (18.48%) Hugging Face
4 33 (17.93%) LangChain
5 31 (16.85%) LlamaIndex
6 30 (16.30%) NumPy
6 30 (16.30%) Pandas
7 28 (15.22%) Model Context Protocol
8 25 (13.59%) Langfuse
9 24 (13.04%) scikit-learn
10 13 (7.07%) Google JAX
10 13 (7.07%) JAX
11 8 (4.35%) OpenCV
12 7 (3.80%) ONNX
13 6 (3.26%) FastAPI
13 6 (3.26%) Keras
13 6 (3.26%) Web Services
14 5 (2.72%) SciPy
14 5 (2.72%) Terraform
14 5 (2.72%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 53 (28.80%) Algorithms
2 50 (27.17%) Cloud Native
3 33 (17.93%) AI Agents
4 22 (11.96%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.15%) Blog
6 11 (5.98%) Mobile Banking
7 7 (3.80%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.72%) Over-the-Top Content
8 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.72%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.72%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (2.17%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.09%) CUDA
10 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.09%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.09%) Podcast
10 2 (1.09%) Stable Diffusion
10 2 (1.09%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.72%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Android
2 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (83.70%) Machine Learning
2 125 (67.93%) AI
3 99 (53.80%) Data Science
4 79 (42.93%) LLM
5 75 (40.76%) Software Engineering
6 64 (34.78%) Statistics
7 60 (32.61%) Generative AI
8 56 (30.43%) Mentoring
9 55 (29.89%) Project Management
10 52 (28.26%) Actionable Insight
10 52 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (27.17%) Computer Science
11 50 (27.17%) Roadmaps
12 48 (26.09%) Prompt Engineering
13 43 (23.37%) Computer Vision
13 43 (23.37%) MLOps
14 42 (22.83%) Agile
15 41 (22.28%) Natural Language Processing
16 36 (19.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 33 (17.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 151 (82.07%) Python
2 40 (21.74%) SQL
3 17 (9.24%) Java
4 8 (4.35%) C++
5 5 (2.72%) R
6 4 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.54%) C#
7 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (38.59%) Degree
2 25 (13.59%) PhD
3 21 (11.41%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.07%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.98%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.35%) DBS Check
7 7 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.80%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.63%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.26%) NCSC
3 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 16 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.43%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 16 (8.70%) Databricks
2 7 (3.80%) Google
3 6 (3.26%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.72%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.09%) Revolut
5 2 (1.09%) Thales
5 2 (1.09%) Workday
6 1 (0.54%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.54%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.54%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.54%) Foundry