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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 625 597
Rank change year-on-year +27 -28 +228
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 49 83 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 31 45 76
10th Percentile £46,939 £37,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £57,251 £38,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year - -24.64% +15.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,250 £92,778
% change year-on-year +61.49% -56.62% +61.35%

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 48,544 49,000 48,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.18% 90.28% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 28,525 24,011 36,948
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 8 January 2026.

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 8 January 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 +41 47 £65,000 -3.70% 178
London +58 32 £68,000 -23.48% 29
Work from Home +58 15 £71,000 -2.07% 87
UK excluding London +21 15 £65,000 +61.49% 169
South East +19 5 £65,000 -10.34% 50
South West +12 4 £90,000 +24.14% 24
West Midlands +14 3 £67,500 +68.75% 7
Midlands +7 3 £67,500 +68.75% 21
East of England +20 2 £35,000 - 33
North West +19 1 £65,000 +8.33% 10
North of England +9 1 £65,000 +8.33% 26

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 9 (18.37%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) AWS
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 7 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (6.12%) Serverless
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
4 2 (4.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (2.04%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.04%) Prefect
5 1 (2.04%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Big Data
2 4 (8.16%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.04%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) MLflow
2 7 (14.29%) Git
3 4 (8.16%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Finance
4 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (8.16%) Marketing
7 3 (6.12%) Aerospace
8 2 (4.08%) Law
8 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Advertising
9 1 (2.04%) Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Billing
9 1 (2.04%) Digital Economy
9 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Legal
9 1 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (2.04%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Data Scientist
2 10 (20.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Senior
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Data Scientist
5 3 (6.12%) Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Head of AI
5 3 (6.12%) Lead
5 3 (6.12%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 3 (6.12%) Principal Data Scientist
6 2 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Head of Data Science
6 2 (4.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Consultant
7 1 (2.04%) CUDA Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) CUDA Software Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (2.04%) Head of Strategy
7 1 (2.04%) Junior Data Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Machine Learning Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (53.06%) PyTorch
2 24 (48.98%) TensorFlow
3 11 (22.45%) scikit-learn
4 4 (8.16%) Hugging Face
4 4 (8.16%) Kafka
5 3 (6.12%) Google JAX
5 3 (6.12%) JAX
5 3 (6.12%) LangChain
5 3 (6.12%) Pandas
6 2 (4.08%) Django
6 2 (4.08%) EDI
6 2 (4.08%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.08%) pydantic
6 2 (4.08%) RESTful
6 2 (4.08%) XGBoost
7 1 (2.04%) Caffe
7 1 (2.04%) Keras
7 1 (2.04%) LangGraph
7 1 (2.04%) NetworkX
7 1 (2.04%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.73%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.04%) CUDA
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Robotics
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Social Network
4 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (85.71%) AI
2 40 (81.63%) Machine Learning
3 28 (57.14%) Data Science
4 23 (46.94%) LLM
5 16 (32.65%) Computer Science
5 16 (32.65%) Natural Language Processing
6 15 (30.61%) Computer Vision
6 15 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (28.57%) Generative AI
7 14 (28.57%) MLOps
8 13 (26.53%) Mathematics
9 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
10 11 (22.45%) Statistics
11 9 (18.37%) Analytics
12 8 (16.33%) Data Analysis
12 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
12 8 (16.33%) Predictive Modelling
12 8 (16.33%) Reinforcement Learning
13 7 (14.29%) Containerisation
13 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 38 (77.55%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 3 (6.12%) C++
3 3 (6.12%) Java
3 3 (6.12%) R
4 2 (4.08%) Perl
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) C
5 1 (2.04%) Go
5 1 (2.04%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (44.90%) Degree
2 11 (22.45%) PhD
2 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.29%) Master's Degree
5 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (8.16%) MCP
6 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.16%) Kubeflow
2 4 (8.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Databricks
2 2 (4.08%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) Foundry
3 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) SAP
3 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow