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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 631 712
Rank change year-on-year +14 +81 +1
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 165 61 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 60 34 47
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £60,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £90,126 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.43% +12.66% +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,000 £110,625 £105,000
90th Percentile £106,625 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.83% +7.41%

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 77,887 44,584 67,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 89.31% 81.13%
Number of salaries quoted 53,644 25,395 43,808
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 10 August 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 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 +11 155 £60,000 -36.84% 224
UK excluding London -43 83 £60,000 -13.04% 63
London -14 76 £82,500 -17.50% 178
Work from Home +16 63 £86,250 +15.00% 67
Midlands +2 38 £46,500 -38.00% 11
East Midlands +11 36 - - 3
South East -15 17 £60,000 +20.00% 14
South West -56 11 £70,000 +64.71% 5
North of England -42 7 £82,000 +31.20% 7
East of England -38 5 £51,250 -38.44% 11
Scotland +12 4 - - 5
North East - 3 £82,000 - 1
North West -12 2 £60,000 -4.00% 6
West Midlands -25 2 £46,500 -13.08% 8
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.61%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.21%) AWS
2 20 (12.12%) Azure
2 20 (12.12%) LangSmith
3 18 (10.91%) GCP
4 12 (7.27%) Serverless
5 10 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 10 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.24%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (4.24%) Prefect
7 6 (3.64%) Slack
8 5 (3.03%) SaaS
9 4 (2.42%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (2.42%) Google Gemini
10 3 (1.82%) GitHub
10 3 (1.82%) Vertex AI
11 2 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.21%) dbt
11 2 (1.21%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.61%) Azure AI
12 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.42%) Big Data
2 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.21%) MySQL
2 2 (1.21%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.21%) Pinecone
2 2 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.21%) Redis
3 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.61%) Bigtable
3 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.61%) GIS
3 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.61%) QGIS
3 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.61%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (7.88%) Git
2 6 (3.64%) MLflow
3 2 (1.21%) JIRA
4 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
General
1 78 (47.27%) Finance
2 36 (21.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (20.00%) Banking
4 18 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.30%) Financial Institution
5 17 (10.30%) Law
6 16 (9.70%) Marketing
7 14 (8.48%) Social Skills
8 11 (6.67%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.42%) Private Banking
10 2 (1.21%) Games
10 2 (1.21%) Legal
10 2 (1.21%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.21%) Publishing
11 1 (0.61%) French Language
Job Titles
1 58 (35.15%) Lead
2 55 (33.33%) Data Scientist
3 50 (30.30%) Developer
4 39 (23.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 26 (15.76%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (14.55%) Lead Data Scientist
7 21 (12.73%) Python Developer
8 14 (8.48%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 14 (8.48%) Statistician
9 13 (7.88%) Lead Developer
10 11 (6.67%) Senior
11 7 (4.24%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Research Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Architect
13 5 (3.03%) Research Scientist
14 4 (2.42%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 4 (2.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 4 (2.42%) Platform Engineer
14 4 (2.42%) Security Engineer
14 4 (2.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (45.45%) PyTorch
2 67 (40.61%) TensorFlow
3 32 (19.39%) Hugging Face
4 28 (16.97%) NumPy
4 28 (16.97%) Pandas
5 25 (15.15%) LangChain
6 23 (13.94%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (13.94%) Model Context Protocol
7 20 (12.12%) Langfuse
7 20 (12.12%) scikit-learn
8 10 (6.06%) Google JAX
8 10 (6.06%) JAX
9 7 (4.24%) OpenCV
9 7 (4.24%) SciPy
10 6 (3.64%) TFX
11 5 (3.03%) Flask
11 5 (3.03%) ONNX
12 4 (2.42%) FastAPI
12 4 (2.42%) Keras
12 4 (2.42%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.88%) Algorithms
2 39 (23.64%) Cloud Native
3 28 (16.97%) AI Agents
4 17 (10.30%) e-Learning
5 13 (7.88%) Blog
6 10 (6.06%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (3.64%) Over-the-Top Content
7 6 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.42%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.21%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.21%) Podcast
10 2 (1.21%) Stable Diffusion
11 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.61%) Life Science
11 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Android
2 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (80.61%) Machine Learning
2 105 (63.64%) AI
3 95 (57.58%) Data Science
4 69 (41.82%) LLM
5 68 (41.21%) Software Engineering
6 62 (37.58%) Statistics
7 54 (32.73%) Generative AI
8 52 (31.52%) Actionable Insight
9 48 (29.09%) Mentoring
10 46 (27.88%) Roadmaps
11 43 (26.06%) Project Management
12 42 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (24.24%) Computer Science
14 39 (23.64%) Prompt Engineering
15 35 (21.21%) Computer Vision
16 34 (20.61%) Agile
17 33 (20.00%) MLOps
18 30 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
19 28 (16.97%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
19 28 (16.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 137 (83.03%) Python
2 38 (23.03%) SQL
3 12 (7.27%) Java
4 8 (4.85%) C++
5 4 (2.42%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.42%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.61%) C#
6 1 (0.61%) R
6 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (34.55%) Degree
2 20 (12.12%) PhD
3 17 (10.30%) Security Cleared
4 15 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.85%) DBS Check
7 7 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.82%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.82%) NCSC
2 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 17 (10.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.67%) Kubeflow
3 6 (3.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (7.27%) Databricks
2 8 (4.85%) Google
3 6 (3.64%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.21%) Revolut
5 2 (1.21%) Workday
6 1 (0.61%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.61%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.61%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.61%) Foundry