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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 628 697
Rank change year-on-year +17 +69 +5
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 171 61 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 59 34 45
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £60,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,625 £110,625 £101,250
90th Percentile £107,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -10.34% +7.41%

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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 16 August 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 August 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 +9 161 £60,000 -36.84% 48
UK excluding London -45 87 £60,000 -7.69% 25
London -2 78 £82,500 -17.50% 30
Work from Home +10 63 £86,250 +15.00% 19
Midlands +10 40 £46,500 -38.00% 5
East Midlands +9 36 - - 1
South East -28 17 £60,000 +20.00% 4
South West -67 11 £70,000 +64.71% 6
East of England -37 7 £47,500 -42.94% 3
North of England -52 7 £82,000 +39.57% 4
Scotland +6 4 - -
West Midlands -25 4 £46,500 -13.08% 4
North East - 3 £82,000 - 1
North West -10 2 £60,000 +2.13% 3
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 11 (6.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.58%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.47%) AWS
2 21 (12.28%) Azure
2 21 (12.28%) LangSmith
3 17 (9.94%) GCP
4 13 (7.60%) Serverless
5 11 (6.43%) Amazon S3
5 11 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.09%) Prefect
7 6 (3.51%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (3.51%) Slack
8 5 (2.92%) SaaS
9 4 (2.34%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (2.34%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.34%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.75%) GitHub
10 3 (1.75%) Vertex AI
11 2 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.17%) dbt
11 2 (1.17%) PaaS
12 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.68%) Big Data
2 3 (1.75%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.17%) MySQL
3 2 (1.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.17%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.17%) Power BI
3 2 (1.17%) QlikView
3 2 (1.17%) Redis
3 2 (1.17%) Tableau
4 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.58%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.58%) QGIS
4 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.58%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (7.60%) Git
2 6 (3.51%) MLflow
3 2 (1.17%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
General
1 82 (47.95%) Finance
2 38 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (19.88%) Banking
4 20 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.70%) Law
5 19 (11.11%) Marketing
6 18 (10.53%) Financial Institution
7 15 (8.77%) Social Skills
8 10 (5.85%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.51%) Legal
10 4 (2.34%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.17%) Games
11 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.17%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.17%) Publishing
12 1 (0.58%) French Language
Job Titles
1 63 (36.84%) Lead
2 53 (30.99%) Data Scientist
3 50 (29.24%) Developer
4 41 (23.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 26 (15.20%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (14.04%) Lead Data Scientist
7 21 (12.28%) Python Developer
8 17 (9.94%) Machine Learning Scientist
9 14 (8.19%) Statistician
10 13 (7.60%) Lead Developer
11 11 (6.43%) Senior
12 7 (4.09%) Data Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) Research Engineer
13 6 (3.51%) Architect
14 5 (2.92%) Research Scientist
15 4 (2.34%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 4 (2.34%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 4 (2.34%) Platform Engineer
15 4 (2.34%) Security Engineer
15 4 (2.34%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (47.37%) PyTorch
2 73 (42.69%) TensorFlow
3 32 (18.71%) Hugging Face
4 30 (17.54%) NumPy
4 30 (17.54%) Pandas
5 26 (15.20%) LangChain
6 24 (14.04%) LlamaIndex
6 24 (14.04%) Model Context Protocol
7 23 (13.45%) scikit-learn
8 21 (12.28%) Langfuse
9 11 (6.43%) Google JAX
9 11 (6.43%) JAX
10 7 (4.09%) OpenCV
10 7 (4.09%) SciPy
11 6 (3.51%) TFX
12 5 (2.92%) Flask
12 5 (2.92%) Keras
12 5 (2.92%) ONNX
13 4 (2.34%) FastAPI
13 4 (2.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (28.07%) Algorithms
2 43 (25.15%) Cloud Native
3 29 (16.96%) AI Agents
4 18 (10.53%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.77%) Blog
6 11 (6.43%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (3.51%) Over-the-Top Content
7 6 (3.51%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.17%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.17%) Podcast
10 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.17%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.17%) Stable Diffusion
11 1 (0.58%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Android
2 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (81.29%) Machine Learning
2 110 (64.33%) AI
3 97 (56.73%) Data Science
4 72 (42.11%) LLM
5 70 (40.94%) Software Engineering
6 64 (37.43%) Statistics
7 54 (31.58%) Generative AI
8 53 (30.99%) Actionable Insight
9 51 (29.82%) Mentoring
10 48 (28.07%) Roadmaps
11 46 (26.90%) Project Management
12 45 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (25.15%) Computer Science
14 41 (23.98%) Prompt Engineering
15 36 (21.05%) Computer Vision
16 34 (19.88%) Agile
16 34 (19.88%) MLOps
17 33 (19.30%) Natural Language Processing
18 29 (16.96%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
19 28 (16.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 142 (83.04%) Python
2 39 (22.81%) SQL
3 14 (8.19%) Java
4 8 (4.68%) C++
5 4 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.34%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.75%) R
7 1 (0.58%) C#
7 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (36.26%) Degree
2 22 (12.87%) PhD
3 16 (9.36%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.60%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.85%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.68%) DBS Check
7 7 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.75%) NCSC
3 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 16 (9.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.43%) Kubeflow
1 11 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (7.60%) Databricks
2 8 (4.68%) Google
3 6 (3.51%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.92%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.17%) Revolut
5 2 (1.17%) Workday
6 1 (0.58%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.58%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.58%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.58%) Foundry