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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 624 713
Rank change year-on-year +2 +89 -26
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 179 54 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 63 34 45
10th Percentile £45,250 £42,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £60,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,000 £110,625 £101,250
90th Percentile £106,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -10.34% +3.57%

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 79,636 44,374 67,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.88% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55,106 25,202 42,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 25 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 25 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 +14 170 £60,000 -36.84% 235
UK excluding London -28 94 £60,000 -7.69% 86
London +3 80 £82,500 -17.50% 177
Work from Home +1 62 £86,250 +15.00% 81
Midlands +6 41 £46,500 -38.00% 10
East Midlands +9 36 - - 1
South East -24 18 £60,000 +20.00% 10
South West -59 11 £70,000 +64.71% 21
East of England -19 10 £47,500 -42.94% 17
North of England -45 9 £82,000 +39.57% 15
West Midlands -32 5 £46,500 -13.08% 9
North East - 5 £82,000 - 2
Scotland +7 4 - - 4
North West -18 2 £60,000 +2.13% 12
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 37 (20.67%) AWS
2 24 (13.41%) Azure
3 23 (12.85%) LangSmith
4 19 (10.61%) GCP
5 13 (7.26%) Serverless
6 11 (6.15%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.91%) Prefect
8 6 (3.35%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (3.35%) Slack
9 5 (2.79%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.79%) SaaS
10 4 (2.23%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (2.23%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.68%) PaaS
11 3 (1.68%) Vertex AI
12 2 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.12%) dbt
12 2 (1.12%) GitHub
13 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.03%) Big Data
2 4 (2.23%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.68%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (1.68%) Power BI
3 3 (1.68%) QlikView
3 3 (1.68%) Tableau
4 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.12%) MySQL
4 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.12%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.12%) Redis
5 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.56%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.70%) Git
2 6 (3.35%) MLflow
3 2 (1.12%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 84 (46.93%) Finance
2 40 (22.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (18.99%) Banking
4 20 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.17%) Financial Institution
4 20 (11.17%) Law
5 19 (10.61%) Marketing
6 15 (8.38%) Social Skills
7 12 (6.70%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.91%) Legal
9 4 (2.23%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Games
11 2 (1.12%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (36.87%) Lead
2 53 (29.61%) Data Scientist
3 50 (27.93%) Developer
4 47 (26.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 26 (14.53%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (13.41%) Lead Data Scientist
7 21 (11.73%) Python Developer
8 17 (9.50%) Machine Learning Scientist
9 14 (7.82%) Statistician
10 13 (7.26%) Lead Developer
11 11 (6.15%) Senior
12 7 (3.91%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Research Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) Architect
14 5 (2.79%) Research Scientist
15 4 (2.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 4 (2.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 4 (2.23%) Platform Engineer
15 4 (2.23%) Security Engineer
15 4 (2.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (45.81%) PyTorch
2 75 (41.90%) TensorFlow
3 32 (17.88%) Hugging Face
4 30 (16.76%) LangChain
4 30 (16.76%) NumPy
4 30 (16.76%) Pandas
5 28 (15.64%) LlamaIndex
6 26 (14.53%) Model Context Protocol
7 23 (12.85%) Langfuse
7 23 (12.85%) scikit-learn
8 12 (6.70%) Google JAX
8 12 (6.70%) JAX
9 7 (3.91%) OpenCV
10 6 (3.35%) Keras
10 6 (3.35%) SciPy
10 6 (3.35%) TFX
11 5 (2.79%) Flask
11 5 (2.79%) ONNX
11 5 (2.79%) Terraform
11 5 (2.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.49%) Algorithms
2 47 (26.26%) Cloud Native
3 31 (17.32%) AI Agents
4 20 (11.17%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.38%) Blog
6 11 (6.15%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.35%) Over-the-Top Content
7 6 (3.35%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.68%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.12%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.12%) Podcast
10 2 (1.12%) Stable Diffusion
11 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.79%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Android
2 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (82.68%) Machine Learning
2 119 (66.48%) AI
3 98 (54.75%) Data Science
4 77 (43.02%) LLM
5 72 (40.22%) Software Engineering
6 64 (35.75%) Statistics
7 58 (32.40%) Generative AI
8 54 (30.17%) Mentoring
9 53 (29.61%) Actionable Insight
10 50 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (27.37%) Project Management
11 49 (27.37%) Roadmaps
12 46 (25.70%) Computer Science
13 45 (25.14%) Prompt Engineering
14 40 (22.35%) Computer Vision
15 39 (21.79%) Agile
16 38 (21.23%) MLOps
17 37 (20.67%) Natural Language Processing
18 33 (18.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
19 29 (16.20%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 148 (82.68%) Python
2 38 (21.23%) SQL
3 15 (8.38%) Java
4 8 (4.47%) C++
5 4 (2.23%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.23%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.68%) R
7 1 (0.56%) C#
7 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (36.31%) Degree
2 23 (12.85%) PhD
3 18 (10.06%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.26%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.59%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.47%) DBS Check
7 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.35%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.79%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.79%) NCSC
2 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 16 (8.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.15%) Kubeflow
1 11 (6.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (7.82%) Databricks
2 7 (3.91%) Google
3 6 (3.35%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.79%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.12%) Revolut
5 2 (1.12%) Workday
6 1 (0.56%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.56%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.56%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.56%) Foundry