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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 598 742
Rank change year-on-year +5 +144 +46
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 138 58 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 69 31 96
10th Percentile £46,551 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,939 £44,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -6.45% +9.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £108,125 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.77% +2.31% +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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +13 134 £60,000 -20.00% 175
UK excluding London -29 75 £60,000 -9.77% 144
Work from Home +53 66 £77,500 +10.71% 150
London 0 58 £57,661 -46.36% 70
Midlands +11 40 £52,500 +16.67% 21
East Midlands +4 36 - - 11
South East +3 19 £60,000 - 26
South West -47 8 £60,000 +41.18% 14
East of England -20 6 £100,000 +56.25% 20
West Midlands -19 4 £52,500 +16.67% 10
North West -4 2 £60,000 -23.93% 14
North of England -35 2 £60,000 -23.93% 27

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 (6.52%) Jupyter
2 5 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.72%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.42%) AWS
1 13 (9.42%) LangSmith
2 11 (7.97%) Azure
3 9 (6.52%) Slack
4 7 (5.07%) GCP
5 6 (4.35%) SaaS
6 5 (3.62%) Prefect
7 4 (2.90%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (2.17%) GitHub
8 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.45%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (1.45%) Serverless
9 2 (1.45%) Vertex AI
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.72%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.72%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.72%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.45%) MySQL
1 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.45%) Pinecone
1 2 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.45%) Redis
2 1 (0.72%) Big Data
2 1 (0.72%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.72%) GIS
2 1 (0.72%) Power BI
2 1 (0.72%) QGIS
2 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.72%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Git
2 3 (2.17%) MLflow
3 2 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
General
1 51 (36.96%) Finance
2 24 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (13.04%) Banking
4 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.25%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.62%) Social Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.45%) Marketing
8 2 (1.45%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.72%) Advertising
9 1 (0.72%) French Language
Job Titles
1 51 (36.96%) Developer
2 46 (33.33%) Data Scientist
3 38 (27.54%) Lead
4 26 (18.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 24 (17.39%) Senior Data Scientist
6 23 (16.67%) Lead Data Scientist
7 22 (15.94%) Python Developer
8 18 (13.04%) Senior
9 14 (10.14%) Statistician
10 13 (9.42%) Lead Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Research Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Python Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Research Scientist
12 4 (2.90%) Security Engineer
13 3 (2.17%) C++ Software Engineer
13 3 (2.17%) CUDA Engineer
13 3 (2.17%) CUDA Software Engineer
14 2 (1.45%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 55 (39.86%) TensorFlow
3 27 (19.57%) Hugging Face
4 24 (17.39%) NumPy
4 24 (17.39%) Pandas
5 16 (11.59%) Model Context Protocol
6 15 (10.87%) LangChain
7 13 (9.42%) LlamaIndex
8 10 (7.25%) Google JAX
8 10 (7.25%) JAX
9 9 (6.52%) TFX
10 8 (5.80%) OpenCV
11 7 (5.07%) SciPy
12 4 (2.90%) EDI
12 4 (2.90%) scikit-learn
13 3 (2.17%) Flask
13 3 (2.17%) Keras
13 3 (2.17%) REST
14 2 (1.45%) FastAPI
14 2 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.71%) Algorithms
2 16 (11.59%) AI Agents
3 14 (10.14%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.25%) e-Learning
5 9 (6.52%) Over-the-Top Content
5 9 (6.52%) Video\Live Streaming
6 8 (5.80%) Blog
7 5 (3.62%) CUDA
8 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.17%) Robotics
9 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.45%) Lidar
9 2 (1.45%) Self-Driving Car
10 1 (0.72%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.72%) BBC
10 1 (0.72%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.72%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.62%) Linux
2 2 (1.45%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (71.01%) Machine Learning
2 87 (63.04%) AI
3 81 (58.70%) Data Science
4 50 (36.23%) Statistics
5 48 (34.78%) Software Engineering
6 46 (33.33%) LLM
7 44 (31.88%) Roadmaps
8 43 (31.16%) Computer Vision
9 38 (27.54%) Actionable Insight
10 36 (26.09%) Generative AI
10 36 (26.09%) Project Management
11 35 (25.36%) Mentoring
12 34 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (21.74%) Computer Science
14 24 (17.39%) Feature Engineering
15 23 (16.67%) MLOps
15 23 (16.67%) Signal Processing
16 21 (15.22%) Agile
17 19 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
17 19 (13.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 115 (83.33%) Python
2 20 (14.49%) SQL
3 8 (5.80%) C++
4 3 (2.17%) Java
5 2 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.72%) R
6 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (33.33%) Degree
2 25 (18.12%) Security Cleared
3 22 (15.94%) PhD
4 13 (9.42%) SC Cleared
5 12 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.80%) DBS Check
7 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.90%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) ACCA
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.72%) CIMA
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (10.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.52%) Kubeflow
2 8 (5.80%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (6.52%) Databricks
2 5 (3.62%) Google
3 4 (2.90%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.72%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.72%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.72%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.72%) Foundry
5 1 (0.72%) Intel