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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 620 674
Rank change year-on-year -11 +54 -26
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 174 47 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.095% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 51 29 39
10th Percentile £46,939 £45,750 £49,600
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £95,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +28.38% +5.71%
75th Percentile £87,000 £108,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +6.12%

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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 10 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 10 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 -5 165 £70,000 -26.32% 428
UK excluding London -54 92 £70,000 +7.69% 121
London 0 77 £82,500 -13.16% 322
Work from Home -13 55 £100,000 +17.65% 136
Midlands -3 41 - - 16
East Midlands 0 36 - - 9
East of England -26 14 £47,500 -53.66% 23
North of England -50 12 £82,000 +39.57% 26
South East -47 11 £62,500 +25.00% 30
South West -68 9 £70,000 - 7
North East - 9 £82,000 - 2
West Midlands -43 5 - - 7
Scotland +13 4 - - 12
Yorkshire - 2 - - 7
North West -25 1 £60,000 +2.13% 17
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 6 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.84%) AWS
2 29 (16.67%) LangSmith
3 27 (15.52%) Azure
4 21 (12.07%) GCP
5 11 (6.32%) Amazon S3
5 11 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (6.32%) Serverless
6 5 (2.87%) PaaS
6 5 (2.87%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.30%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.30%) Google Gemini
7 4 (2.30%) Slack
8 3 (1.72%) SaaS
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.15%) dbt
9 2 (1.15%) GitHub
9 2 (1.15%) Prefect
10 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) DHCP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.32%) Big Data
2 5 (2.87%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.87%) Data Mining
2 5 (2.87%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (2.87%) Power BI
2 5 (2.87%) QlikView
2 5 (2.87%) Tableau
3 3 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.15%) MySQL
4 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.15%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.15%) Redis
5 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.57%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.60%) MLflow
2 4 (2.30%) Git
General
1 91 (52.30%) Finance
2 43 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (20.11%) Banking
4 25 (14.37%) Financial Institution
5 21 (12.07%) Law
6 20 (11.49%) Social Skills
7 18 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (9.77%) Marketing
9 15 (8.62%) Public Sector
10 9 (5.17%) Legal
11 6 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.87%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.15%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.15%) Aviation
13 2 (1.15%) Games
13 2 (1.15%) Public Speaking
13 2 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (39.08%) Lead
2 55 (31.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 53 (30.46%) Data Scientist
4 35 (20.11%) Developer
5 25 (14.37%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (13.79%) Lead Data Scientist
7 18 (10.34%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 14 (8.05%) Statistician
9 13 (7.47%) Lead Developer
10 9 (5.17%) Senior
11 6 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.45%) Research Engineer
12 5 (2.87%) Research Scientist
13 4 (2.30%) Architect
13 4 (2.30%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 4 (2.30%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.30%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.30%) Security Engineer
13 4 (2.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (45.40%) PyTorch
2 70 (40.23%) TensorFlow
3 38 (21.84%) LangChain
3 38 (21.84%) LlamaIndex
4 33 (18.97%) Hugging Face
5 32 (18.39%) Model Context Protocol
6 29 (16.67%) Langfuse
7 23 (13.22%) scikit-learn
8 15 (8.62%) NumPy
8 15 (8.62%) Pandas
9 9 (5.17%) Google JAX
9 9 (5.17%) JAX
9 9 (5.17%) Web Services
10 7 (4.02%) ONNX
11 6 (3.45%) FastAPI
11 6 (3.45%) Keras
12 4 (2.30%) Flask
12 4 (2.30%) OpenCV
12 4 (2.30%) Terraform
12 4 (2.30%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 56 (32.18%) Cloud Native
2 40 (22.99%) Algorithms
3 36 (20.69%) AI Agents
4 25 (14.37%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.62%) Blog
6 11 (6.32%) Mobile Banking
7 10 (5.75%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.87%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.87%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.30%) Over-the-Top Content
9 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.30%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.15%) CUDA
11 2 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.15%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.15%) Podcast
11 2 (1.15%) Stable Diffusion
11 2 (1.15%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Android
1 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.57%) CentOS
1 1 (0.57%) Debian
1 1 (0.57%) Linux
1 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
1 1 (0.57%) Unix
1 1 (0.57%) Windows
1 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (90.80%) Machine Learning
2 129 (74.14%) AI
3 95 (54.60%) Data Science
4 85 (48.85%) LLM
5 70 (40.23%) Software Engineering
6 65 (37.36%) Statistics
7 61 (35.06%) Generative AI
8 59 (33.91%) Project Management
9 58 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (31.61%) Mentoring
11 54 (31.03%) Computer Science
11 54 (31.03%) Prompt Engineering
12 52 (29.89%) Actionable Insight
13 48 (27.59%) MLOps
14 46 (26.44%) Agile
14 46 (26.44%) Roadmaps
15 42 (24.14%) Natural Language Processing
16 40 (22.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
16 40 (22.99%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 39 (22.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 145 (83.33%) Python
2 42 (24.14%) SQL
3 16 (9.20%) Java
4 8 (4.60%) C++
5 6 (3.45%) R
6 4 (2.30%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.57%) C
8 1 (0.57%) C#
8 1 (0.57%) Fortran
8 1 (0.57%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.57%) Scala
8 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (40.80%) Degree
2 27 (15.52%) PhD
3 21 (12.07%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.47%) Master's Degree
5 12 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.75%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.17%) Azure Certification
7 9 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.60%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.30%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.17%) Data Quality
1 9 (5.17%) NCSC
2 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Ceph
2 1 (0.57%) Lustre
2 1 (0.57%) NFS
2 1 (0.57%) Samba
2 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (5.17%) Kubeflow
2 7 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 9 (5.17%) Databricks
2 5 (2.87%) Google
3 4 (2.30%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.30%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.15%) Revolut
4 2 (1.15%) Thales
4 2 (1.15%) Workday
5 1 (0.57%) Apple
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat