Deep Learning Job Trends

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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 599 633 615
Rank change year-on-year +34 -18 +213
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 51 86 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 34 48 69
10th Percentile £45,582 £37,500 £47,150
25th Percentile £57,251 £38,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -22.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £96,875 £90,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £127,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +60.49% -53.71% +52.17%

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 48,671 49,754 47,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.04% 89.85% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,569 24,792 36,014
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.67%

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 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 11 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 29 December 2025. 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 +40 49 £65,000 -7.14% 391
London +42 33 £68,000 -15.00% 105
Work from Home +70 16 £71,000 -2.07% 260
UK excluding London +33 16 £65,000 +60.49% 317
South East +29 4 £65,000 -10.34% 79
South West +19 4 £90,000 +24.14% 35
East of England +27 3 £35,000 -56.25% 56
West Midlands +16 3 £67,500 +68.75% 30
Midlands +15 3 £67,500 +68.75% 53
North West +19 2 £53,750 -10.42% 35
North of England +1 2 £53,750 -10.42% 69

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 (21.57%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.88%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.96%) Confluence
4 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (31.37%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) AWS
3 11 (21.57%) GCP
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (5.88%) Prefect
4 3 (5.88%) Serverless
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.92%) GitHub
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.96%) Datadog
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.96%) PaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.96%) SaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) Big Data
2 4 (7.84%) Hadoop
3 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.96%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (21.57%) MLflow
2 7 (13.73%) Git
3 4 (7.84%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Finance
4 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.84%) Marketing
7 3 (5.88%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.92%) Advertising
8 2 (3.92%) Law
8 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Billing
9 1 (1.96%) Digital Economy
9 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Legal
9 1 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (1.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) Data Scientist
3 8 (15.69%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Data Scientist
5 4 (7.84%) Head of AI
6 3 (5.88%) Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 3 (5.88%) Principal Data Scientist
7 2 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Head of Architecture
7 2 (3.92%) Head of Data Science
7 2 (3.92%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (3.92%) Head of Strategy
7 2 (3.92%) Lead
7 2 (3.92%) Python Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Data Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Data Science Leader
8 1 (1.96%) Junior Data Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Machine Learning Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (56.86%) PyTorch
2 27 (52.94%) TensorFlow
3 15 (29.41%) scikit-learn
4 7 (13.73%) Hugging Face
5 6 (11.76%) Kafka
6 5 (9.80%) Google JAX
6 5 (9.80%) JAX
7 3 (5.88%) LangChain
7 3 (5.88%) Pandas
8 2 (3.92%) Django
8 2 (3.92%) EDI
8 2 (3.92%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.92%) pydantic
8 2 (3.92%) RESTful
8 2 (3.92%) XGBoost
9 1 (1.96%) CrewAI
9 1 (1.96%) LangGraph
9 1 (1.96%) ONNX
9 1 (1.96%) Semantic Kernel
9 1 (1.96%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 17 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Robotics
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Social Network
5 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (88.24%) AI
2 43 (84.31%) Machine Learning
3 28 (54.90%) Data Science
4 26 (50.98%) LLM
5 20 (39.22%) Natural Language Processing
6 18 (35.29%) Computer Vision
7 17 (33.33%) MLOps
8 16 (31.37%) Computer Science
9 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (27.45%) Generative AI
10 14 (27.45%) Software Engineering
11 13 (25.49%) Mathematics
12 11 (21.57%) Statistics
13 9 (17.65%) Analytics
13 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
13 9 (17.65%) Reinforcement Learning
14 8 (15.69%) Data Analysis
14 8 (15.69%) Predictive Modelling
15 7 (13.73%) Agile
15 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (80.39%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) SQL
3 4 (7.84%) Java
4 3 (5.88%) Bash
4 3 (5.88%) C++
4 3 (5.88%) R
5 2 (3.92%) Perl
6 1 (1.96%) C
6 1 (1.96%) Go
6 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) Degree
2 11 (21.57%) PhD
2 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
4 8 (15.69%) Master's Degree
5 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (7.84%) MCP
6 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.80%) Kubeflow
3 4 (7.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Databricks
2 2 (3.92%) Google
2 2 (3.92%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.96%) Foundry
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle
3 1 (1.96%) SAP
3 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow