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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 628 688
Rank change year-on-year +8 +60 -37
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 179 44 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.089% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.100% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 54 27 42
10th Percentile £46,939 £45,250 £53,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,000 £110,000 £94,688
90th Percentile £108,875 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £59,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.59% +3.04% -4.17%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
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 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +4 170 £65,000 -31.58% 460
UK excluding London -50 96 £63,750 +7.59% 145
London -8 78 £82,500 -13.16% 338
Work from Home 0 57 £102,500 +7.89% 135
Midlands -7 41 - - 19
East Midlands +1 36 - - 8
East of England -18 14 £47,500 -53.66% 34
South East -48 14 £60,000 +20.00% 32
North of England -65 13 £82,000 +39.57% 28
South West -70 9 £70,000 - 15
North East - 9 £82,000 - 2
West Midlands -43 5 - - 11
Scotland +17 4 - - 8
North West -32 2 £60,000 +2.13% 18
Yorkshire - 2 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.35%) AWS
2 29 (16.20%) Azure
3 28 (15.64%) LangSmith
4 23 (12.85%) GCP
5 12 (6.70%) Serverless
6 11 (6.15%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.35%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.79%) PaaS
9 4 (2.23%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (2.23%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.23%) Slack
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.68%) Prefect
10 3 (1.68%) SaaS
11 2 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.12%) dbt
11 2 (1.12%) GitHub
11 2 (1.12%) Vertex AI
12 1 (0.56%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) 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 12 (6.70%) Big Data
2 5 (2.79%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.79%) Data Mining
2 5 (2.79%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (2.79%) Power BI
2 5 (2.79%) QlikView
2 5 (2.79%) Tableau
3 3 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.12%) MySQL
4 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.12%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.12%) 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 (4.47%) MLflow
2 7 (3.91%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 90 (50.28%) Finance
2 43 (24.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (19.55%) Banking
4 25 (13.97%) Financial Institution
5 21 (11.73%) Law
6 20 (11.17%) Social Skills
7 18 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (9.50%) Marketing
9 15 (8.38%) Public Sector
10 9 (5.03%) Legal
11 6 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.79%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.12%) Aviation
13 2 (1.12%) Games
13 2 (1.12%) Public Speaking
13 2 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (38.55%) Lead
2 56 (31.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 54 (30.17%) Data Scientist
4 39 (21.79%) Developer
5 26 (14.53%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (13.41%) Lead Data Scientist
7 17 (9.50%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 14 (7.82%) Statistician
9 13 (7.26%) Lead Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Senior
11 6 (3.35%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Research Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Architect
12 5 (2.79%) Research Scientist
13 4 (2.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 4 (2.23%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.23%) Security Engineer
13 4 (2.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 3 (1.68%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (45.25%) PyTorch
2 73 (40.78%) TensorFlow
3 38 (21.23%) LangChain
4 37 (20.67%) LlamaIndex
5 34 (18.99%) Hugging Face
6 31 (17.32%) Model Context Protocol
7 28 (15.64%) Langfuse
8 24 (13.41%) scikit-learn
9 20 (11.17%) NumPy
9 20 (11.17%) Pandas
10 10 (5.59%) Google JAX
10 10 (5.59%) JAX
11 9 (5.03%) Web Services
12 7 (3.91%) ONNX
13 6 (3.35%) FastAPI
13 6 (3.35%) Keras
14 5 (2.79%) OpenCV
15 4 (2.23%) Flask
15 4 (2.23%) Terraform
15 4 (2.23%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 56 (31.28%) Cloud Native
2 44 (24.58%) Algorithms
3 37 (20.67%) AI Agents
4 25 (13.97%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.38%) Blog
6 11 (6.15%) Mobile Banking
7 10 (5.59%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.79%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.23%) Over-the-Top Content
9 4 (2.23%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.12%) CUDA
11 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.12%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.12%) Podcast
11 2 (1.12%) Stable Diffusion
11 2 (1.12%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.12%) 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
1 160 (89.39%) Machine Learning
2 130 (72.63%) AI
3 97 (54.19%) Data Science
4 86 (48.04%) LLM
5 70 (39.11%) Software Engineering
6 65 (36.31%) Statistics
7 63 (35.20%) Generative AI
8 58 (32.40%) Project Management
9 57 (31.84%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (31.28%) Mentoring
11 54 (30.17%) Prompt Engineering
12 53 (29.61%) Computer Science
13 52 (29.05%) Actionable Insight
14 49 (27.37%) MLOps
15 48 (26.82%) Roadmaps
16 46 (25.70%) Agile
17 44 (24.58%) Natural Language Processing
18 40 (22.35%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
19 39 (21.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
20 38 (21.23%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 149 (83.24%) Python
2 42 (23.46%) SQL
3 16 (8.94%) Java
4 8 (4.47%) C++
5 6 (3.35%) R
6 4 (2.23%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.68%) 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 71 (39.66%) Degree
2 26 (14.53%) PhD
3 21 (11.73%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.82%) Master's Degree
5 12 (6.70%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.59%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (4.47%) DBS Check
9 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.23%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.03%) Data Quality
1 9 (5.03%) NCSC
2 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.59%) 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 (5.03%) Kubeflow
2 8 (4.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 10 (5.59%) Databricks
2 6 (3.35%) Google
3 5 (2.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.79%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.12%) Revolut
4 2 (1.12%) Thales
4 2 (1.12%) Workday
5 1 (0.56%) Apple
5 1 (0.56%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.56%) Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat