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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 632 714
Rank change year-on-year +8 +82 -53
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 181 48 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.097% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 59 29 45
10th Percentile £46,801 £45,750 £51,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +18.75% +4.92%
75th Percentile £87,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +12 172 £61,250 -35.53% 524
UK excluding London -42 97 £60,000 -7.69% 154
London -4 79 £83,750 -14.10% 394
Work from Home +14 56 £106,250 +25.00% 169
Midlands +7 41 - - 25
East Midlands +3 36 - - 9
South East -38 18 £60,000 +20.00% 29
East of England -23 13 £47,500 -53.66% 34
North of England -59 11 £82,000 +39.57% 25
South West -65 9 £70,000 - 15
North East - 7 £82,000 - 3
West Midlands -36 5 - - 16
Scotland +10 4 - - 10
North West -20 2 £60,000 +2.13% 19
Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 15

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 7 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.21%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.55%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.55%) AWS
2 29 (16.02%) Azure
3 26 (14.36%) LangSmith
4 22 (12.15%) GCP
5 13 (7.18%) Serverless
6 11 (6.08%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.87%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.31%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.76%) PaaS
9 5 (2.76%) Slack
10 4 (2.21%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (2.21%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.66%) Prefect
11 3 (1.66%) SaaS
11 3 (1.66%) Vertex AI
12 2 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.10%) dbt
12 2 (1.10%) GitHub
13 1 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.08%) Big Data
2 5 (2.76%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.76%) Data Mining
2 5 (2.76%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (2.76%) Power BI
2 5 (2.76%) QlikView
2 5 (2.76%) Tableau
3 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.10%) MySQL
3 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.10%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.10%) Redis
4 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.55%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.55%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.42%) MLflow
2 7 (3.87%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 87 (48.07%) Finance
2 41 (22.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (18.78%) Banking
4 23 (12.71%) Financial Institution
5 20 (11.05%) Law
6 19 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (9.39%) Marketing
7 17 (9.39%) Social Skills
8 14 (7.73%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.97%) Legal
10 5 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.21%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.10%) Aviation
12 2 (1.10%) Games
12 2 (1.10%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (38.12%) Lead
2 54 (29.83%) Data Scientist
3 53 (29.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 43 (23.76%) Developer
5 26 (14.36%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (13.26%) Lead Data Scientist
7 17 (9.39%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 14 (7.73%) Python Developer
8 14 (7.73%) Statistician
9 13 (7.18%) Lead Developer
10 10 (5.52%) Senior
11 7 (3.87%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Research Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Architect
13 5 (2.76%) Research Scientist
14 4 (2.21%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 4 (2.21%) Platform Engineer
14 4 (2.21%) Python Engineer
14 4 (2.21%) Security Engineer
14 4 (2.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (45.30%) PyTorch
2 75 (41.44%) TensorFlow
3 35 (19.34%) LangChain
4 34 (18.78%) Hugging Face
5 33 (18.23%) LlamaIndex
6 29 (16.02%) Model Context Protocol
7 26 (14.36%) Langfuse
8 24 (13.26%) NumPy
8 24 (13.26%) Pandas
8 24 (13.26%) scikit-learn
9 9 (4.97%) Google JAX
9 9 (4.97%) JAX
10 7 (3.87%) ONNX
10 7 (3.87%) Web Services
11 6 (3.31%) FastAPI
11 6 (3.31%) Keras
12 5 (2.76%) Terraform
12 5 (2.76%) TFX
13 4 (2.21%) Flask
13 4 (2.21%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 52 (28.73%) Cloud Native
2 47 (25.97%) Algorithms
3 34 (18.78%) AI Agents
4 23 (12.71%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.29%) Blog
6 11 (6.08%) Mobile Banking
7 8 (4.42%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.76%) Over-the-Top Content
8 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.76%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.76%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.10%) CUDA
10 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.10%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.10%) Podcast
10 2 (1.10%) Stable Diffusion
10 2 (1.10%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Android
1 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (86.74%) Machine Learning
2 128 (70.72%) AI
3 99 (54.70%) Data Science
4 81 (44.75%) LLM
5 70 (38.67%) Software Engineering
6 64 (35.36%) Statistics
7 61 (33.70%) Generative AI
8 56 (30.94%) Mentoring
8 56 (30.94%) Project Management
9 54 (29.83%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (28.73%) Actionable Insight
11 51 (28.18%) Computer Science
12 50 (27.62%) Prompt Engineering
13 49 (27.07%) Roadmaps
14 45 (24.86%) MLOps
15 43 (23.76%) Agile
15 43 (23.76%) Natural Language Processing
16 38 (20.99%) Computer Vision
17 37 (20.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 35 (19.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (81.77%) Python
2 41 (22.65%) SQL
3 16 (8.84%) Java
4 8 (4.42%) C++
5 6 (3.31%) R
6 4 (2.21%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.66%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.55%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (37.57%) Degree
2 26 (14.36%) PhD
3 21 (11.60%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.18%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.63%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.42%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.42%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.42%) DBS Check
7 7 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.66%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.87%) NCSC
3 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 11 (6.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.52%) Kubeflow
1 10 (5.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (6.63%) Databricks
2 7 (3.87%) Google
3 6 (3.31%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.76%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.10%) Revolut
5 2 (1.10%) Thales
5 2 (1.10%) Workday
6 1 (0.55%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.55%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.55%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.55%) Foundry