Deep Learning Job Trends

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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 599 686 634
Rank change year-on-year +87 -52 +170
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 54 70 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 35 35 60
10th Percentile £44,750 £37,500 £42,373
25th Percentile £60,625 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% - -6.45%
75th Percentile £102,500 £91,202 £93,510
90th Percentile £115,000 £98,750 £101,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +62.50% -42.86% +21.74%

All Process and 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 45,394 56,021 48,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 83.52% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,423 29,005 37,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,128 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +105 51 £71,000 -4.05% 170
London +69 33 £95,000 +6.91% 125
UK excluding London +72 19 £65,000 +62.50% 45
Work from Home +74 17 £71,000 -15.22% 81
East of England +17 5 £68,750 -14.06% 12
South East +32 4 £65,000 -10.34% 13
South West - 4 £90,000 - 6
North of England +56 3 £52,500 -12.50% 6
North West +32 3 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Midlands +53 2 £69,250 +73.13% 3
West Midlands +43 2 £69,250 +73.13% 1
Scotland -1 1 - - 1

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 10 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 6 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) Azure
2 22 (40.74%) AWS
3 15 (27.78%) GCP
4 8 (14.81%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (12.96%) Serverless
6 5 (9.26%) Amazon Bedrock
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (9.26%) Prefect
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub
9 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Big Data
2 6 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.41%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.41%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (7.41%) MySQL
4 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.85%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.85%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.85%) Power BI
6 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Git
1 12 (22.22%) MLflow
2 4 (7.41%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 7 (12.96%) Marketing
3 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.11%) Law
5 5 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.56%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.70%) Advertising
7 2 (3.70%) Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Legal
7 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Billing
8 1 (1.85%) Electronics
8 1 (1.85%) Games
8 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Publishing
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Senior
2 12 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Data Scientist
4 6 (11.11%) Head of AI
5 4 (7.41%) Associate Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Data Scientist
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Head of Architecture
7 2 (3.70%) Head of Data Science
7 2 (3.70%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (3.70%) Head of Strategy
7 2 (3.70%) Qualitative Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (55.56%) PyTorch
2 28 (51.85%) TensorFlow
3 19 (35.19%) scikit-learn
4 10 (18.52%) Hugging Face
5 7 (12.96%) Kafka
5 7 (12.96%) LangChain
6 6 (11.11%) FastAPI
7 5 (9.26%) Google JAX
7 5 (9.26%) JAX
7 5 (9.26%) LangGraph
8 4 (7.41%) JSON Web Signature
8 4 (7.41%) JWT
8 4 (7.41%) OAuth
8 4 (7.41%) OpenID
8 4 (7.41%) Pandas
9 3 (5.56%) NumPy
9 3 (5.56%) ONNX
10 2 (3.70%) pydantic
10 2 (3.70%) Streamlit
10 2 (3.70%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.56%) Robotics
6 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.70%) Sports Betting
6 2 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.85%) Blog
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.85%) Stable Diffusion
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (88.89%) Machine Learning
2 47 (87.04%) AI
3 33 (61.11%) Data Science
4 29 (53.70%) LLM
5 23 (42.59%) Natural Language Processing
6 21 (38.89%) Software Engineering
7 19 (35.19%) Computer Vision
8 18 (33.33%) Containerisation
8 18 (33.33%) MLOps
9 16 (29.63%) Generative AI
10 15 (27.78%) Computer Science
10 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (24.07%) Agile
11 13 (24.07%) Mathematics
12 12 (22.22%) Neural Network
13 11 (20.37%) Analytics
13 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
13 11 (20.37%) Reinforcement Learning
13 11 (20.37%) Statistics
14 10 (18.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (75.93%) Python
2 13 (24.07%) SQL
3 11 (20.37%) Java
4 5 (9.26%) C++
4 5 (9.26%) R
5 4 (7.41%) Rust
6 3 (5.56%) Bash
7 2 (3.70%) C#
7 2 (3.70%) Perl
8 1 (1.85%) C
8 1 (1.85%) Go
8 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.85%) Julia
8 1 (1.85%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Degree
2 13 (24.07%) Master's Degree
3 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
4 6 (11.11%) PhD
5 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (7.41%) MCP
7 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.96%) Kubeflow
3 5 (9.26%) Terraform
4 4 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
1 5 (9.26%) OpenAI
2 3 (5.56%) Databricks
2 3 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (1.85%) Foundry
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle
3 1 (1.85%) SAP
3 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow