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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 626 724
Rank change year-on-year +1 +98 +23
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 147 61 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 58 35 54
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £52,875
25th Percentile £46,939 £61,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,253 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +8.26% +6.78%
75th Percentile £86,813 £106,875 £99,688
90th Percentile £105,375 £113,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.90% -3.41%

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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 15 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 26 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 -8 138 £60,000 -33.43% 88
UK excluding London -37 79 £60,000 -13.04% 28
Work from Home +14 64 £80,000 +6.67% 35
London +6 62 £80,000 -17.95% 72
Midlands -2 38 £46,500 -38.00%
East Midlands +1 36 - -
South East -14 17 £60,000 - 7
South West -57 10 £65,000 +52.94% 5
East of England -27 5 £77,500 -6.91% 4
North of England -36 5 £60,000 -17.24% 4
Scotland +22 4 - - 4
North West -3 2 £60,000 -17.24% 3
West Midlands -20 2 £46,500 -5.58%
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East - 1 £82,000 - 1

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 8 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.68%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.65%) AWS
2 18 (12.24%) Azure
2 18 (12.24%) LangSmith
3 14 (9.52%) GCP
4 7 (4.76%) Slack
5 6 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 6 (4.08%) Prefect
6 5 (3.40%) SaaS
6 5 (3.40%) Serverless
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.04%) GitHub
7 3 (2.04%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.36%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.68%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.68%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.04%) Big Data
2 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.36%) MySQL
2 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.36%) Pinecone
2 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.36%) Redis
3 1 (0.68%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.68%) GIS
3 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.68%) Power BI
3 1 (0.68%) QGIS
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.68%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Git
2 5 (3.40%) MLflow
3 2 (1.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
General
1 67 (45.58%) Finance
2 26 (17.69%) Banking
3 23 (15.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (10.20%) Financial Institution
6 9 (6.12%) Law
7 8 (5.44%) Marketing
7 8 (5.44%) Social Skills
8 6 (4.08%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.72%) Private Banking
10 2 (1.36%) Games
10 2 (1.36%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) French Language
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (34.69%) Data Scientist
2 50 (34.01%) Developer
3 47 (31.97%) Lead
4 34 (23.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 24 (16.33%) Senior Data Scientist
6 23 (15.65%) Lead Data Scientist
7 21 (14.29%) Python Developer
8 14 (9.52%) Statistician
9 13 (8.84%) Lead Developer
10 10 (6.80%) Senior
11 6 (4.08%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Machine Learning Scientist
12 5 (3.40%) Architect
12 5 (3.40%) Research Engineer
13 4 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 4 (2.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 4 (2.72%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.72%) Research Scientist
13 4 (2.72%) Security Engineer
14 3 (2.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (44.90%) PyTorch
2 58 (39.46%) TensorFlow
3 33 (22.45%) Hugging Face
4 26 (17.69%) NumPy
4 26 (17.69%) Pandas
5 22 (14.97%) Model Context Protocol
6 21 (14.29%) LangChain
7 19 (12.93%) LlamaIndex
8 18 (12.24%) Langfuse
9 9 (6.12%) Google JAX
9 9 (6.12%) JAX
9 9 (6.12%) scikit-learn
10 7 (4.76%) OpenCV
10 7 (4.76%) SciPy
10 7 (4.76%) TFX
11 4 (2.72%) Flask
11 4 (2.72%) REST
12 3 (2.04%) FastAPI
12 3 (2.04%) ONNX
12 3 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (29.93%) Algorithms
2 25 (17.01%) AI Agents
3 24 (16.33%) Cloud Native
4 15 (10.20%) e-Learning
5 11 (7.48%) Blog
6 7 (4.76%) Over-the-Top Content
6 7 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.04%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.36%) Stable Diffusion
10 1 (0.68%) BBC
10 1 (0.68%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.68%) Life Science
10 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.68%) Podcast
10 1 (0.68%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (76.87%) Machine Learning
2 94 (63.95%) AI
3 87 (59.18%) Data Science
4 55 (37.41%) LLM
5 53 (36.05%) Software Engineering
6 49 (33.33%) Statistics
7 47 (31.97%) Generative AI
8 45 (30.61%) Roadmaps
9 44 (29.93%) Actionable Insight
10 41 (27.89%) Project Management
11 39 (26.53%) Mentoring
12 36 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (21.77%) Computer Vision
14 30 (20.41%) Computer Science
14 30 (20.41%) MLOps
15 29 (19.73%) Agile
16 26 (17.69%) Prompt Engineering
16 26 (17.69%) Validation
17 25 (17.01%) Feature Engineering
17 25 (17.01%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 121 (82.31%) Python
2 28 (19.05%) SQL
3 10 (6.80%) Java
4 8 (5.44%) C++
5 4 (2.72%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.36%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) R
7 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (31.97%) Degree
2 16 (10.88%) PhD
3 14 (9.52%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) DBS Check
5 7 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) ACCA
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) CIMA
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.80%) Kubeflow
1 10 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (7.48%) Databricks
2 7 (4.76%) Google
3 5 (3.40%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.04%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.36%) Revolut
6 1 (0.68%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.68%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.68%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.68%) Foundry