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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 567 691
Rank change year-on-year -58 +124 +152
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 91 80 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.21% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 65 46 110
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -13.55% +9.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £123,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% +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 65,473 38,805 81,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.33% 92.93% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40,444 22,598 59,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -47 87 £60,000 -6.98% 62
London +18 51 £57,661 -39.30% 40
UK excluding London -72 36 £60,000 +33.33% 28
Work from Home -4 26 £55,000 -21.43% 26
South East -35 16 £60,000 - 10
East of England -38 7 £100,000 +56.25% 4
South West -50 6 £60,000 +41.18% 5
West Midlands -31 5 £50,000 +25.00%
Midlands -47 5 £50,000 +17.65% 1
North West -27 2 £60,000 -7.69% 2
North of England -67 2 £60,000 -7.69% 4

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 (9.89%) Jupyter
2 5 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.10%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.19%) AWS
2 10 (10.99%) Azure
3 6 (6.59%) SaaS
4 5 (5.49%) GCP
4 5 (5.49%) Prefect
4 5 (5.49%) Slack
5 4 (4.40%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (4.40%) Serverless
6 3 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.30%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.20%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.20%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.20%) GitHub
7 2 (2.20%) LangSmith
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.10%) PaaS
8 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) Big Data
1 4 (4.40%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.20%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.10%) GIS
3 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Power BI
3 1 (1.10%) QGIS
3 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.10%) Spatial Data
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Git
2 4 (4.40%) MLflow
3 2 (2.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (19.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Finance
4 7 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.49%) Marketing
7 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Advertising
9 1 (1.10%) Billing
9 1 (1.10%) Digital Economy
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) French Language
9 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
9 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (23.08%) Developer
2 20 (21.98%) Python Developer
3 19 (20.88%) Senior
4 14 (15.38%) Data Scientist
5 13 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Lead
7 5 (5.49%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Architect
9 3 (3.30%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) CUDA Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) CUDA Software Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Data Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Data Science Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Machine Learning Scientist
10 2 (2.20%) Analyst
10 2 (2.20%) Principal Data Scientist
10 2 (2.20%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (51.65%) PyTorch
2 35 (38.46%) TensorFlow
3 25 (27.47%) Pandas
4 23 (25.27%) NumPy
5 10 (10.99%) Google JAX
5 10 (10.99%) JAX
6 8 (8.79%) OpenCV
7 7 (7.69%) scikit-learn
7 7 (7.69%) SciPy
8 6 (6.59%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (5.49%) Hugging Face
9 5 (5.49%) LangChain
9 5 (5.49%) TFX
10 4 (4.40%) EDI
11 3 (3.30%) LlamaIndex
12 2 (2.20%) Django
12 2 (2.20%) FastAPI
12 2 (2.20%) Flask
12 2 (2.20%) REST
12 2 (2.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (48.35%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.49%) CUDA
3 5 (5.49%) Over-the-Top Content
3 5 (5.49%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.30%) Robotics
6 2 (2.20%) Blog
6 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.20%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Lidar
6 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.20%) Self-Driving Car
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (67.03%) AI
2 57 (62.64%) Machine Learning
3 41 (45.05%) Computer Vision
3 41 (45.05%) Data Science
4 32 (35.16%) LLM
5 28 (30.77%) Generative AI
6 25 (27.47%) Computer Science
7 22 (24.18%) Software Engineering
8 21 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (23.08%) Signal Processing
9 18 (19.78%) Mathematics
10 17 (18.68%) Statistics
11 16 (17.58%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (17.58%) Natural Language Processing
11 16 (17.58%) Test Automation
12 14 (15.38%) Analytics
13 13 (14.29%) Issue Tracking
13 13 (14.29%) MLOps
14 12 (13.19%) Mentoring
14 12 (13.19%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 71 (78.02%) Python
2 7 (7.69%) C++
3 6 (6.59%) SQL
4 4 (4.40%) Java
4 4 (4.40%) R
5 1 (1.10%) C
5 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.10%) Scala
5 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (41.76%) Degree
2 24 (26.37%) PhD
3 21 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.69%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.20%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.10%) ACCA
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.10%) CIMA
9 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.10%) EU AI Act
1 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Kubeflow
3 2 (2.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.79%) Databricks
2 5 (5.49%) Google
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.20%) Foundry
5 1 (1.10%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.10%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.10%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.10%) Intel
5 1 (1.10%) SAP