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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 545 697
Rank change year-on-year -66 +152 +154
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 84 82 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 61 46 102
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -16.13% +6.90%
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,202 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £124,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% -

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 61,872 38,072 78,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.33% 93.03% 86.34%
Number of salaries quoted 38,257 22,481 58,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,241
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,321 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.95% +8.64% -8.41%

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 5 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 9 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 5 April 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 -34 80 £60,000 -3.23% 68
London +5 48 £60,000 -36.84% 34
UK excluding London -92 32 £60,000 +33.33% 50
Work from Home -4 28 £61,250 -14.04% 28
South East -17 14 £60,000 -17.24% 17
West Midlands -22 7 £55,000 +37.50% 2
East of England -29 7 £100,000 +56.25% 3
Midlands -47 7 £55,000 +37.50% 2
South West -37 4 £65,000 +52.94% 7

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 (10.71%) Jupyter
2 5 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.95%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.90%) AWS
2 8 (9.52%) Azure
3 6 (7.14%) SaaS
4 5 (5.95%) Prefect
4 5 (5.95%) Slack
5 4 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.57%) GCP
6 3 (3.57%) Serverless
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.38%) GitHub
7 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.38%) Vertex AI
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.19%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.19%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.19%) Dialogflow
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Big Data
1 4 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.38%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.19%) GIS
3 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.19%) Power BI
3 1 (1.19%) QGIS
3 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.19%) Spatial Data
3 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Git
2 4 (4.76%) MLflow
3 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 16 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 8 (9.52%) Finance
4 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.14%) Marketing
6 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.38%) Law
7 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Advertising
8 1 (1.19%) Billing
8 1 (1.19%) Digital Economy
8 1 (1.19%) Electronics
8 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.19%) French Language
8 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (20.24%) Senior
2 15 (17.86%) Data Scientist
2 15 (17.86%) Developer
3 14 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 9 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (10.71%) Lead
5 5 (5.95%) Senior Data Scientist
5 5 (5.95%) Software Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Architect
6 3 (3.57%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Consultant
6 3 (3.57%) CUDA Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) CUDA Software Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Data Consultant
6 3 (3.57%) Data Science Consultant
6 3 (3.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 3 (3.57%) Principal Data Scientist
7 2 (2.38%) Analyst
7 2 (2.38%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (53.57%) PyTorch
2 34 (40.48%) TensorFlow
3 18 (21.43%) Pandas
4 16 (19.05%) NumPy
5 10 (11.90%) Google JAX
5 10 (11.90%) JAX
6 8 (9.52%) OpenCV
7 7 (8.33%) scikit-learn
7 7 (8.33%) SciPy
8 5 (5.95%) TFX
9 4 (4.76%) EDI
10 3 (3.57%) Hugging Face
10 3 (3.57%) LangChain
10 3 (3.57%) Model Context Protocol
11 2 (2.38%) Django
11 2 (2.38%) FastAPI
11 2 (2.38%) Flask
11 2 (2.38%) Kafka
11 2 (2.38%) Keras
11 2 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (47.62%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.95%) CUDA
2 5 (5.95%) Over-the-Top Content
2 5 (5.95%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Robotics
4 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Lidar
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.38%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) BBC
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.19%) Social Network
5 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (71.43%) AI
2 57 (67.86%) Machine Learning
3 44 (52.38%) Data Science
4 34 (40.48%) Computer Vision
5 32 (38.10%) LLM
6 26 (30.95%) Generative AI
7 23 (27.38%) Computer Science
8 22 (26.19%) Software Engineering
9 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (21.43%) Mathematics
11 17 (20.24%) Natural Language Processing
11 17 (20.24%) Statistics
12 16 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (17.86%) Analytics
13 15 (17.86%) Signal Processing
13 15 (17.86%) Test Automation
14 13 (15.48%) Issue Tracking
14 13 (15.48%) Mentoring
15 12 (14.29%) Data Analysis
15 12 (14.29%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 64 (76.19%) Python
2 7 (8.33%) C++
2 7 (8.33%) SQL
3 4 (4.76%) Java
3 4 (4.76%) R
4 1 (1.19%) C
4 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.19%) Scala
4 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (41.67%) Degree
2 23 (27.38%) PhD
3 19 (22.62%) Security Cleared
4 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.14%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.19%) ACCA
8 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.19%) CIMA
8 1 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.19%) EU AI Act
1 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.19%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (15.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.95%) Kubeflow
3 2 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Databricks
2 4 (4.76%) Google
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.19%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.19%) DataRobot
4 1 (1.19%) Foundry
4 1 (1.19%) Intel
4 1 (1.19%) SAP