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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 586 726
Rank change year-on-year -32 +140 +103
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 119 65 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 65 34 104
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,875 £48,600
25th Percentile £46,939 £43,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -10.94% +11.89%
75th Percentile - £109,688 £96,539
90th Percentile £96,250 £118,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.62% +8.33%

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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 12 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 29 May 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 -9 117 £60,000 -20.00% 31
UK excluding London -47 61 £60,000 -3.23% 19
London +12 56 £57,661 -46.36% 14
Work from Home +44 49 £55,000 -24.14% 19
Midlands -10 29 £50,000 +11.11% 4
East Midlands -13 24 - - 2
South East -14 17 £60,000 - 4
South West -50 8 £60,000 +41.18% 2
East of England -27 5 £100,000 +56.25% 3
West Midlands -35 5 £50,000 +11.11% 2
North West -10 2 £60,000 -9.43% 3
North of England -54 2 £60,000 -9.43% 5

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 (7.56%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.84%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.08%) AWS
2 10 (8.40%) Azure
3 8 (6.72%) LangSmith
4 7 (5.88%) Slack
5 6 (5.04%) GCP
5 6 (5.04%) SaaS
6 5 (4.20%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (4.20%) Prefect
7 3 (2.52%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.68%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.68%) Serverless
8 2 (1.68%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.84%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.84%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.84%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.68%) Big Data
1 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.84%) GIS
2 1 (0.84%) Power BI
2 1 (0.84%) QGIS
2 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.84%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Git
2 4 (3.36%) MLflow
3 2 (1.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
General
1 36 (30.25%) Finance
2 24 (20.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.24%) Banking
5 9 (7.56%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.52%) Marketing
6 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.52%) Social Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.84%) Advertising
8 1 (0.84%) Digital Economy
8 1 (0.84%) French Language
8 1 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (31.09%) Developer
2 36 (30.25%) Data Scientist
3 26 (21.85%) Lead
4 22 (18.49%) Python Developer
5 21 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 19 (15.97%) Senior Data Scientist
7 17 (14.29%) Lead Data Scientist
7 17 (14.29%) Senior
8 9 (7.56%) Statistician
9 6 (5.04%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.20%) Research Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 4 (3.36%) Research Scientist
11 4 (3.36%) Security Engineer
12 3 (2.52%) C++ Software Engineer
12 3 (2.52%) CUDA Engineer
12 3 (2.52%) CUDA Software Engineer
13 2 (1.68%) Data Consultant
13 2 (1.68%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (49.58%) PyTorch
2 47 (39.50%) TensorFlow
3 25 (21.01%) Pandas
4 24 (20.17%) NumPy
5 20 (16.81%) Hugging Face
6 11 (9.24%) Model Context Protocol
7 10 (8.40%) Google JAX
7 10 (8.40%) JAX
7 10 (8.40%) LangChain
8 8 (6.72%) LlamaIndex
8 8 (6.72%) OpenCV
9 7 (5.88%) SciPy
9 7 (5.88%) TFX
10 4 (3.36%) EDI
10 4 (3.36%) scikit-learn
11 1 (0.84%) JSON
11 1 (0.84%) Kafka
11 1 (0.84%) Matplotlib
11 1 (0.84%) REST
11 1 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (34.45%) Algorithms
2 13 (10.92%) AI Agents
3 9 (7.56%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.72%) Blog
4 8 (6.72%) e-Learning
5 7 (5.88%) Over-the-Top Content
5 7 (5.88%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (4.20%) CUDA
7 3 (2.52%) Robotics
8 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.68%) Lidar
8 2 (1.68%) Self-Driving Car
9 1 (0.84%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.84%) BBC
9 1 (0.84%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.84%) Life Science
9 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.84%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Linux
2 2 (1.68%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (68.91%) Machine Learning
2 74 (62.18%) AI
3 66 (55.46%) Data Science
4 44 (36.97%) Computer Vision
5 38 (31.93%) LLM
5 38 (31.93%) Software Engineering
5 38 (31.93%) Statistics
6 32 (26.89%) Generative AI
7 31 (26.05%) Roadmaps
8 29 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (22.69%) Actionable Insight
9 27 (22.69%) Computer Science
10 26 (21.85%) Mentoring
11 24 (20.17%) Project Management
12 23 (19.33%) Signal Processing
13 19 (15.97%) MLOps
14 18 (15.13%) Test Automation
15 17 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (14.29%) Feature Engineering
16 16 (13.45%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 97 (81.51%) Python
2 10 (8.40%) SQL
3 6 (5.04%) C++
4 2 (1.68%) Java
5 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.84%) R
5 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (34.45%) Degree
2 25 (21.01%) Security Cleared
3 24 (20.17%) PhD
4 13 (10.92%) SC Cleared
5 12 (10.08%) DV Cleared
6 8 (6.72%) DBS Check
7 5 (4.20%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.84%) ACCA
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.84%) CIMA
9 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (10.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.88%) Kubeflow
1 7 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.56%) Databricks
2 3 (2.52%) Google
2 3 (2.52%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.84%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.84%) Dataiku
4 1 (0.84%) DataRobot
4 1 (0.84%) Foundry
4 1 (0.84%) Intel