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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 634 690
Rank change year-on-year -2 +56 -21
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 177 47 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.095% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 54 29 43
10th Percentile £46,939 £45,750 £50,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.89% +18.75% +10.34%
75th Percentile £87,000 £111,250 £94,375
90th Percentile £108,875 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -2.13%

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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 25 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 25 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 -8 168 £62,500 -34.21% 426
UK excluding London -54 96 £62,500 -3.85% 131
London -3 76 £82,500 -13.16% 314
Work from Home -2 55 £106,250 +25.00% 135
Midlands -5 41 - - 17
East Midlands +2 36 - - 7
South East -40 15 £60,000 +20.00% 29
East of England -11 14 £47,500 -53.66% 26
North of England -58 13 £82,000 +39.57% 29
North East - 9 £82,000 - 3
South West -71 8 £70,000 - 15
West Midlands -41 5 - - 10
Scotland +12 4 - - 8
North West -30 2 £60,000 +2.13% 20
Yorkshire - 2 - - 6
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 7 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.03%) AWS
2 29 (16.38%) Azure
3 27 (15.25%) LangSmith
4 23 (12.99%) GCP
5 12 (6.78%) Serverless
6 11 (6.21%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.39%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.82%) PaaS
9 4 (2.26%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (2.26%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.26%) Slack
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.69%) Prefect
10 3 (1.69%) SaaS
11 2 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.13%) dbt
11 2 (1.13%) GitHub
11 2 (1.13%) Vertex AI
12 1 (0.56%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.21%) Big Data
2 5 (2.82%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.82%) Data Mining
2 5 (2.82%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (2.82%) Power BI
2 5 (2.82%) QlikView
2 5 (2.82%) Tableau
3 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.13%) MySQL
4 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.13%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.13%) Redis
5 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.56%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.52%) MLflow
2 7 (3.95%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 88 (49.72%) Finance
2 43 (24.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (19.21%) Banking
4 24 (13.56%) Financial Institution
5 20 (11.30%) Law
6 18 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (10.17%) Social Skills
7 17 (9.60%) Marketing
8 15 (8.47%) Public Sector
9 9 (5.08%) Legal
10 6 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.26%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.13%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.13%) Aviation
12 2 (1.13%) Games
12 2 (1.13%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (38.98%) Lead
2 54 (30.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 53 (29.94%) Data Scientist
4 40 (22.60%) Developer
5 26 (14.69%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (13.56%) Lead Data Scientist
7 17 (9.60%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 14 (7.91%) Statistician
9 13 (7.34%) Lead Developer
10 11 (6.21%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.65%) Senior
12 6 (3.39%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) Research Engineer
13 5 (2.82%) Architect
13 5 (2.82%) Research Scientist
14 4 (2.26%) Platform Engineer
14 4 (2.26%) Security Engineer
14 4 (2.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 3 (1.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 3 (1.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (45.76%) PyTorch
2 73 (41.24%) TensorFlow
3 37 (20.90%) LangChain
4 36 (20.34%) LlamaIndex
5 34 (19.21%) Hugging Face
6 30 (16.95%) Model Context Protocol
7 27 (15.25%) Langfuse
8 24 (13.56%) scikit-learn
9 21 (11.86%) NumPy
9 21 (11.86%) Pandas
10 10 (5.65%) Google JAX
10 10 (5.65%) JAX
11 9 (5.08%) Web Services
12 7 (3.95%) ONNX
13 6 (3.39%) FastAPI
13 6 (3.39%) Keras
14 5 (2.82%) OpenCV
15 4 (2.26%) Flask
15 4 (2.26%) Terraform
15 4 (2.26%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 55 (31.07%) Cloud Native
2 44 (24.86%) Algorithms
3 35 (19.77%) AI Agents
4 24 (13.56%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.47%) Blog
6 11 (6.21%) Mobile Banking
7 10 (5.65%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.82%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.82%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.26%) Over-the-Top Content
9 4 (2.26%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.13%) CUDA
11 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.13%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.13%) Podcast
11 2 (1.13%) Stable Diffusion
11 2 (1.13%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.13%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Android
2 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.56%) CentOS
2 1 (0.56%) Debian
2 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
2 1 (0.56%) Unix
2 1 (0.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (88.70%) Machine Learning
2 127 (71.75%) AI
3 96 (54.24%) Data Science
4 84 (47.46%) LLM
5 68 (38.42%) Software Engineering
6 64 (36.16%) Statistics
7 61 (34.46%) Generative AI
8 57 (32.20%) Project Management
9 56 (31.64%) Mentoring
9 56 (31.64%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (29.94%) Prompt Engineering
11 52 (29.38%) Actionable Insight
11 52 (29.38%) Computer Science
12 48 (27.12%) Roadmaps
13 47 (26.55%) MLOps
14 44 (24.86%) Agile
14 44 (24.86%) Natural Language Processing
15 39 (22.03%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 38 (21.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
17 37 (20.90%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 147 (83.05%) Python
2 41 (23.16%) SQL
3 16 (9.04%) Java
4 8 (4.52%) C++
5 6 (3.39%) R
6 4 (2.26%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.56%) C
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) Fortran
8 1 (0.56%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (38.98%) Degree
2 26 (14.69%) PhD
3 20 (11.30%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.34%) Master's Degree
5 12 (6.78%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.65%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.65%) Azure Certification
7 9 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (4.52%) DBS Check
9 7 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.69%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.08%) Data Quality
1 9 (5.08%) NCSC
2 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Ceph
2 1 (0.56%) Lustre
2 1 (0.56%) NFS
2 1 (0.56%) Samba
2 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (5.08%) Kubeflow
2 8 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 10 (5.65%) Databricks
2 6 (3.39%) Google
3 5 (2.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.82%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.13%) Revolut
4 2 (1.13%) Thales
4 2 (1.13%) Workday
5 1 (0.56%) Apple
5 1 (0.56%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.56%) Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat