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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 637 592
Rank change year-on-year +39 -45 +229
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 46 87 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 29 50 66
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £39,125 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% -10.94% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £117,000 £95,375 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +61.49% -42.50% +21.74%

All Process and 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 48,853 50,492 45,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.70% 89.69% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,653 25,437 34,822
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,979 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.95% +4.76% -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 21 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 21 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 +54 44 £65,000 -10.34% 52
London +55 28 £75,000 -6.25% 17
UK excluding London +32 16 £65,000 +61.49% 45
Work from Home +49 15 £71,000 -2.07% 35
South East +32 4 £65,000 -10.34% 12
South West +15 4 £90,000 +24.14% 9
West Midlands +25 3 £67,500 +68.75% 3
East of England +14 3 £35,000 -56.25% 12
Midlands +9 3 £67,500 +68.75% 4
North West +32 2 £53,750 -10.42% 3
North of England +14 2 £53,750 -10.42% 6

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 (23.91%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) Azure
2 14 (30.43%) AWS
3 11 (23.91%) GCP
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (6.52%) Prefect
4 3 (6.52%) Serverless
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Big Data
2 4 (8.70%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) MLflow
2 8 (17.39%) Git
3 4 (8.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Finance
4 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.70%) Marketing
6 3 (6.52%) Aerospace
7 2 (4.35%) Advertising
7 2 (4.35%) Law
7 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Billing
8 1 (2.17%) Digital Economy
8 1 (2.17%) Electronics
8 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Legal
8 1 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (2.17%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Data Scientist
3 5 (10.87%) Senior Data Scientist
4 4 (8.70%) Head of AI
4 4 (8.70%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 3 (6.52%) Principal Data Scientist
6 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Head of Architecture
6 2 (4.35%) Head of Data Science
6 2 (4.35%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (4.35%) Head of Strategy
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Compiler Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Data Science Consultant
7 1 (2.17%) Data Science Leader
7 1 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (56.52%) TensorFlow
2 24 (52.17%) PyTorch
3 16 (34.78%) scikit-learn
4 7 (15.22%) Hugging Face
5 6 (13.04%) Kafka
6 3 (6.52%) Google JAX
6 3 (6.52%) JAX
6 3 (6.52%) LangChain
6 3 (6.52%) Pandas
7 2 (4.35%) Django
7 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
7 2 (4.35%) pydantic
7 2 (4.35%) RESTful
7 2 (4.35%) XGBoost
8 1 (2.17%) Caffe
8 1 (2.17%) Flask
8 1 (2.17%) Keras
8 1 (2.17%) NetworkX
8 1 (2.17%) NumPy
8 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Robotics
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (86.96%) AI
1 40 (86.96%) Machine Learning
2 24 (52.17%) Data Science
3 23 (50.00%) LLM
4 20 (43.48%) Natural Language Processing
5 16 (34.78%) MLOps
6 14 (30.43%) Computer Science
6 14 (30.43%) Computer Vision
6 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (28.26%) Generative AI
7 13 (28.26%) Software Engineering
8 10 (21.74%) Containerisation
8 10 (21.74%) Mathematics
9 9 (19.57%) Analytics
9 9 (19.57%) Reinforcement Learning
10 8 (17.39%) Agile
10 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 8 (17.39%) Predictive Modelling
10 8 (17.39%) Statistics
11 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (78.26%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) R
5 3 (6.52%) Bash
5 3 (6.52%) C++
6 2 (4.35%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) C
7 1 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Degree
2 9 (19.57%) Master's Degree
3 6 (13.04%) PhD
3 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (8.70%) MCP
6 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Kubeflow
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) Databricks
2 2 (4.35%) Google
2 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.17%) Foundry
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) SAP
3 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow