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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 622 623
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 +234
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 61 85 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 40 47 93
10th Percentile £46,939 £37,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £57,251 £38,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% +10.34%
75th Percentile £75,813 £87,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £101,500 £95,000 £133,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +44.44% -35.71% +21.74%

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 50,274 48,415 58,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.40% 91.16% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,681 23,366 44,999
10th Percentile £28,571 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,246 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 24 January 2026.

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 24 January 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 +53 59 £60,000 -7.69% 214
London +59 38 £57,661 -35.11% 71
UK excluding London +2 21 £65,000 +44.44% 179
Work from Home +64 17 £71,000 -2.07% 109
South East +29 8 £62,500 -13.79% 63
West Midlands +29 4 £61,250 +53.13% 5
East of England +22 4 £67,500 - 45
South West +9 4 £90,000 +24.14% 28
Midlands +8 4 £61,250 +53.13% 16
North West +14 1 £65,000 +8.33% 3
North of England +7 1 £65,000 +8.33% 16

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 9 (14.75%) Jupyter
2 8 (13.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.39%) AWS
1 10 (16.39%) Azure
2 5 (8.20%) GCP
3 3 (4.92%) SaaS
3 3 (4.92%) Serverless
4 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
4 2 (3.28%) GitHub
4 2 (3.28%) Slack
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.64%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.64%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Big Data
2 4 (6.56%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) MLflow
2 6 (9.84%) Git
3 4 (6.56%) GitLab
4 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 15 (24.59%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (11.48%) Finance
4 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.56%) Marketing
6 3 (4.92%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.28%) Law
7 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Advertising
8 1 (1.64%) Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Billing
8 1 (1.64%) Digital Economy
8 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Legal
8 1 (1.64%) Retail
8 1 (1.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Senior
2 13 (21.31%) Data Scientist
3 10 (16.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Senior Data Scientist
5 4 (6.56%) Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
6 3 (4.92%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) CUDA Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) CUDA Software Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 3 (4.92%) Principal Data Scientist
6 3 (4.92%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Head of Data Science
7 2 (3.28%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Data Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Data Science Consultant
8 1 (1.64%) Data Science Leader
8 1 (1.64%) Junior Data Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Machine Learning Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (55.74%) PyTorch
2 25 (40.98%) TensorFlow
3 9 (14.75%) scikit-learn
4 4 (6.56%) EDI
4 4 (6.56%) Google JAX
4 4 (6.56%) JAX
4 4 (6.56%) Pandas
5 3 (4.92%) Kafka
5 3 (4.92%) LangChain
6 2 (3.28%) Django
6 2 (3.28%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.28%) Hugging Face
6 2 (3.28%) NumPy
6 2 (3.28%) pydantic
6 2 (3.28%) RESTful
6 2 (3.28%) TFX
6 2 (3.28%) XGBoost
7 1 (1.64%) Keras
7 1 (1.64%) NetworkX
7 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (36.07%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) CUDA
3 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (3.28%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Lidar
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Robotics
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.64%) Social Network
5 1 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (83.61%) AI
2 47 (77.05%) Machine Learning
3 36 (59.02%) Data Science
4 28 (45.90%) LLM
5 22 (36.07%) Computer Science
5 22 (36.07%) Computer Vision
6 19 (31.15%) Mathematics
7 18 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (26.23%) Generative AI
8 16 (26.23%) Software Engineering
8 16 (26.23%) Statistics
9 15 (24.59%) Natural Language Processing
10 14 (22.95%) Test Automation
11 13 (21.31%) Issue Tracking
12 12 (19.67%) MLOps
13 11 (18.03%) Physics
13 11 (18.03%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (16.39%) Data Analysis
15 9 (14.75%) Analytics
16 8 (13.11%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (78.69%) Python
2 8 (13.11%) SQL
3 6 (9.84%) C++
4 3 (4.92%) Java
4 3 (4.92%) R
5 1 (1.64%) Bash
5 1 (1.64%) C
5 1 (1.64%) Go
5 1 (1.64%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.64%) Perl
5 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (49.18%) Degree
2 19 (31.15%) PhD
2 19 (31.15%) Security Cleared
3 18 (29.51%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.48%) Master's Degree
5 4 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.92%) MCP
7 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Kubeflow
3 3 (4.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) Databricks
2 2 (3.28%) Google
3 1 (1.64%) Foundry
3 1 (1.64%) Intel
3 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle
3 1 (1.64%) SAP
3 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow