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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 614 731
Rank change year-on-year -13 +117 +14
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 147 60 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 56 34 52
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £60,500 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,253 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +6.57% +10.34%
75th Percentile £83,438 £107,813 £102,188
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,875 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.90% -3.41%

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 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -5 138 £60,000 -33.43% 117
UK excluding London -35 79 £60,000 -13.04% 35
London +7 62 £60,000 -38.46% 96
Work from Home +5 62 £82,500 +10.00% 42
Midlands -3 38 £46,500 -38.00% 3
East Midlands +6 36 - - 1
South East -18 17 £60,000 - 7
South West -50 11 £70,000 +64.71% 5
North of England -36 5 £60,000 -17.24% 5
Scotland +16 4 - - 5
East of England -35 4 £77,500 -6.91% 6
North West -18 2 £60,000 -17.24% 4
West Midlands -29 2 £46,500 -5.58% 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East - 1 £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 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.68%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.01%) AWS
2 19 (12.93%) LangSmith
3 18 (12.24%) Azure
4 15 (10.20%) GCP
5 7 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
5 7 (4.76%) Serverless
6 6 (4.08%) Prefect
6 6 (4.08%) Slack
7 5 (3.40%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.72%) SaaS
9 3 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (2.04%) GitHub
9 3 (2.04%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.36%) Vertex AI
11 1 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.68%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.68%) dbt
11 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.04%) Big Data
2 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.36%) MySQL
2 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.36%) Pinecone
2 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.36%) Redis
3 1 (0.68%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.68%) GIS
3 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.68%) Power BI
3 1 (0.68%) QGIS
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.68%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Git
2 4 (2.72%) MLflow
3 2 (1.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
General
1 70 (47.62%) Finance
2 28 (19.05%) Banking
3 25 (17.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.88%) Financial Institution
6 11 (7.48%) Law
7 10 (6.80%) Marketing
8 8 (5.44%) Social Skills
9 7 (4.76%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.72%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.36%) Games
11 2 (1.36%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.68%) French Language
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (35.37%) Data Scientist
2 50 (34.01%) Developer
3 48 (32.65%) Lead
4 35 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 24 (16.33%) Senior Data Scientist
6 23 (15.65%) Lead Data Scientist
7 21 (14.29%) Python Developer
8 14 (9.52%) Statistician
9 13 (8.84%) Lead Developer
10 8 (5.44%) Machine Learning Scientist
10 8 (5.44%) Senior
11 7 (4.76%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.40%) Architect
12 5 (3.40%) Research Engineer
13 4 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 4 (2.72%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.72%) Research Scientist
13 4 (2.72%) Security Engineer
14 3 (2.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 3 (2.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (43.54%) PyTorch
2 58 (39.46%) TensorFlow
3 32 (21.77%) Hugging Face
4 26 (17.69%) NumPy
4 26 (17.69%) Pandas
5 22 (14.97%) LangChain
5 22 (14.97%) Model Context Protocol
6 20 (13.61%) LlamaIndex
7 19 (12.93%) Langfuse
8 11 (7.48%) scikit-learn
9 8 (5.44%) Google JAX
9 8 (5.44%) JAX
10 7 (4.76%) OpenCV
10 7 (4.76%) SciPy
11 6 (4.08%) TFX
12 4 (2.72%) Flask
12 4 (2.72%) REST
13 3 (2.04%) FastAPI
13 3 (2.04%) ONNX
13 3 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.25%) Algorithms
2 27 (18.37%) Cloud Native
3 25 (17.01%) AI Agents
4 16 (10.88%) e-Learning
5 11 (7.48%) Blog
6 6 (4.08%) Over-the-Top Content
6 6 (4.08%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (3.40%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.36%) Stable Diffusion
11 1 (0.68%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.68%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.68%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.68%) Life Science
11 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.68%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (77.55%) Machine Learning
2 92 (62.59%) AI
3 87 (59.18%) Data Science
4 56 (38.10%) LLM
4 56 (38.10%) Software Engineering
5 51 (34.69%) Statistics
6 47 (31.97%) Generative AI
7 46 (31.29%) Actionable Insight
8 45 (30.61%) Roadmaps
9 42 (28.57%) Project Management
10 40 (27.21%) Mentoring
11 36 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (21.77%) Computer Vision
13 31 (21.09%) Agile
13 31 (21.09%) Computer Science
14 29 (19.73%) MLOps
14 29 (19.73%) Prompt Engineering
15 25 (17.01%) Natural Language Processing
15 25 (17.01%) Validation
16 24 (16.33%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 120 (81.63%) Python
2 30 (20.41%) SQL
3 10 (6.80%) Java
4 8 (5.44%) C++
5 4 (2.72%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.36%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) R
7 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (32.65%) Degree
2 16 (10.88%) PhD
3 15 (10.20%) DV Cleared
3 15 (10.20%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) DBS Check
5 7 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) ACCA
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) CIMA
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.12%) Kubeflow
3 6 (4.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (8.16%) Databricks
2 7 (4.76%) Google
3 5 (3.40%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.04%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.36%) Revolut
6 1 (0.68%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.68%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.68%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.68%) Foundry