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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 637 605
Rank change year-on-year +47 -32 +225
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 51 82 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32 44 78
10th Percentile £46,939 £37,500 £46,975
25th Percentile £57,251 £37,938 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -27.54% +15.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,300 £96,539
90th Percentile £113,500 £95,000 £135,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,250 £90,139
% change year-on-year +61.49% -55.35% +56.76%

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 48,314 48,563 49,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.11% 90.50% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 28,431 23,714 37,983
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
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 £78,750
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% -4.55%

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 10 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 10 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 +55 49 £63,750 -1.92% 147
London +49 32 £60,000 -32.48% 29
UK excluding London +26 17 £65,000 +61.49% 135
Work from Home +65 14 £71,000 -2.07% 91
South East +26 6 £65,000 -10.34% 46
South West +8 4 £90,000 +24.14% 18
Midlands +20 3 £67,500 +68.75% 15
West Midlands +17 3 £67,500 +68.75% 7
East of England +11 3 £67,500 - 28
North West +18 1 £65,000 +8.33% 6
North of England +9 1 £65,000 +8.33% 17

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 (15.69%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.80%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.61%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) GCP
4 3 (5.88%) Serverless
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.92%) GitHub
5 2 (3.92%) SaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.96%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
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%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) Big Data
2 4 (7.84%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.96%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) MLflow
2 6 (11.76%) Git
3 4 (7.84%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (13.73%) Finance
5 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.84%) Marketing
7 3 (5.88%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.92%) Law
8 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Advertising
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%) Data Scientist
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Data Scientist
5 3 (5.88%) Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Lead
5 3 (5.88%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 3 (5.88%) Principal Data Scientist
6 2 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.92%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) CUDA Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) CUDA Software Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Head of Data Science
6 2 (3.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Data Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Junior
7 1 (1.96%) Junior Data Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (50.98%) PyTorch
2 22 (43.14%) TensorFlow
3 9 (17.65%) scikit-learn
4 3 (5.88%) EDI
4 3 (5.88%) Google JAX
4 3 (5.88%) JAX
4 3 (5.88%) Kafka
4 3 (5.88%) LangChain
4 3 (5.88%) Pandas
5 2 (3.92%) Django
5 2 (3.92%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.92%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.92%) pydantic
5 2 (3.92%) RESTful
5 2 (3.92%) XGBoost
6 1 (1.96%) Caffe
6 1 (1.96%) Flask
6 1 (1.96%) Keras
6 1 (1.96%) NetworkX
6 1 (1.96%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 18 (35.29%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.92%) CUDA
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Social Network
5 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (84.31%) AI
2 40 (78.43%) Machine Learning
3 30 (58.82%) Data Science
4 24 (47.06%) LLM
5 17 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (29.41%) Computer Vision
7 15 (29.41%) Mathematics
8 14 (27.45%) Generative AI
8 14 (27.45%) Natural Language Processing
9 13 (25.49%) Software Engineering
10 12 (23.53%) Statistics
11 11 (21.57%) MLOps
12 9 (17.65%) Analytics
12 9 (17.65%) Data Analysis
12 9 (17.65%) Test Automation
13 8 (15.69%) Issue Tracking
13 8 (15.69%) Predictive Modelling
14 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
14 7 (13.73%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 39 (76.47%) Python
2 8 (15.69%) SQL
3 4 (7.84%) C++
4 3 (5.88%) Java
4 3 (5.88%) R
5 1 (1.96%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) C
5 1 (1.96%) Go
5 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.96%) Perl
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (47.06%) Degree
2 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
3 13 (25.49%) PhD
3 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) Master's Degree
5 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.88%) MCP
7 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.88%) Kubeflow
2 3 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Databricks
2 2 (3.92%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) Foundry
3 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle
3 1 (1.96%) SAP
3 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow