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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 629 728
Rank change year-on-year -2 +99 +24
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 138 61 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57 35 61
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £61,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,253 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +10.00% +6.90%
75th Percentile £82,500 £106,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.90% -1.52%

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 23 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 14 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 23 July 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 -6 130 £60,000 -33.43% 85
UK excluding London -28 78 £60,000 -13.04% 28
Work from Home +21 63 £66,250 -11.67% 33
London -9 54 £60,000 -38.46% 70
Midlands +4 39 £50,000 -33.33% 1
East Midlands +6 36 - -
South East -4 17 £60,000 - 7
South West -50 10 £65,000 +52.94% 7
East of England -17 5 £77,500 -6.91% 4
North of England -33 4 £60,000 -17.24% 3
Scotland +21 3 - - 3
West Midlands -29 3 £50,000 +1.52% 1
North West -5 2 £60,000 -17.24% 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -

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 6 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.72%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.77%) AWS
2 18 (13.04%) LangSmith
3 17 (12.32%) Azure
4 13 (9.42%) GCP
5 7 (5.07%) Slack
6 6 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (3.62%) Prefect
8 4 (2.90%) SaaS
9 3 (2.17%) GitHub
9 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.17%) Serverless
10 2 (1.45%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (1.45%) Vertex AI
11 1 (0.72%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.72%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.72%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.72%) Google Gemini
11 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.07%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.45%) MySQL
1 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.45%) Pinecone
1 2 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.45%) Redis
2 1 (0.72%) Big Data
2 1 (0.72%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.72%) GIS
2 1 (0.72%) Power BI
2 1 (0.72%) QGIS
2 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.72%) Spatial Data
2 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Git
2 4 (2.90%) MLflow
3 2 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
General
1 61 (44.20%) Finance
2 22 (15.94%) Banking
3 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.87%) Financial Institution
5 7 (5.07%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.62%) Marketing
6 5 (3.62%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.90%) Law
8 3 (2.17%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.45%) Games
9 2 (1.45%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) French Language
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (36.23%) Data Scientist
1 50 (36.23%) Developer
2 40 (28.99%) Lead
3 33 (23.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 24 (17.39%) Senior Data Scientist
5 23 (16.67%) Lead Data Scientist
6 21 (15.22%) Python Developer
7 14 (10.14%) Statistician
8 13 (9.42%) Lead Developer
9 10 (7.25%) Senior
10 6 (4.35%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Architect
11 5 (3.62%) Research Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 4 (2.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Python Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Research Scientist
12 4 (2.90%) Security Engineer
13 3 (2.17%) Software Engineer
14 2 (1.45%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (44.20%) PyTorch
2 55 (39.86%) TensorFlow
3 32 (23.19%) Hugging Face
4 23 (16.67%) NumPy
4 23 (16.67%) Pandas
5 22 (15.94%) Model Context Protocol
6 20 (14.49%) LangChain
7 18 (13.04%) Langfuse
7 18 (13.04%) LlamaIndex
8 8 (5.80%) Google JAX
8 8 (5.80%) JAX
8 8 (5.80%) OpenCV
9 7 (5.07%) SciPy
9 7 (5.07%) TFX
10 5 (3.62%) scikit-learn
11 3 (2.17%) Flask
11 3 (2.17%) Keras
11 3 (2.17%) React
11 3 (2.17%) REST
12 2 (1.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 44 (31.88%) Algorithms
2 24 (17.39%) AI Agents
3 20 (14.49%) Cloud Native
4 15 (10.87%) e-Learning
5 9 (6.52%) Blog
6 7 (5.07%) Over-the-Top Content
6 7 (5.07%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.45%) Robotics
9 2 (1.45%) Stable Diffusion
10 1 (0.72%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.72%) BBC
10 1 (0.72%) CUDA
10 1 (0.72%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.72%) Lidar
10 1 (0.72%) Life Science
10 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Android
2 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.72%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (75.36%) Machine Learning
2 88 (63.77%) AI
3 82 (59.42%) Data Science
4 50 (36.23%) LLM
5 47 (34.06%) Software Engineering
6 44 (31.88%) Generative AI
6 44 (31.88%) Roadmaps
6 44 (31.88%) Statistics
7 41 (29.71%) Actionable Insight
7 41 (29.71%) Project Management
8 35 (25.36%) Mentoring
9 34 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (23.19%) Computer Vision
11 28 (20.29%) Agile
12 27 (19.57%) Computer Science
12 27 (19.57%) MLOps
13 24 (17.39%) Feature Engineering
13 24 (17.39%) Validation
14 22 (15.94%) Prompt Engineering
14 22 (15.94%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 115 (83.33%) Python
2 25 (18.12%) SQL
3 9 (6.52%) C++
3 9 (6.52%) Java
4 4 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.72%) C#
5 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.72%) R
5 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (30.43%) Degree
2 15 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 14 (10.14%) DV Cleared
4 12 (8.70%) PhD
5 8 (5.80%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.72%) ACCA
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CIMA
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (11.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.80%) Kubeflow
3 5 (3.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (7.97%) Databricks
2 7 (5.07%) Google
3 4 (2.90%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.45%) Revolut
6 1 (0.72%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.72%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.72%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.72%) Foundry
6 1 (0.72%) Intel