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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 617 736
Rank change year-on-year -21 +119 +20
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 136 64 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 63 38 79
10th Percentile £45,388 £42,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £60,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,126 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% +6.84% +7.14%
75th Percentile £81,875 £107,813 £90,625
90th Percentile £99,250 £115,000 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.45% -2.08%

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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +6 131 £60,000 -33.43% 139
UK excluding London -29 76 £60,000 -13.04% 51
Work from Home +29 64 £66,250 -11.67% 41
London -1 54 £58,831 -41.17% 101
Midlands +2 40 £52,500 -18.29% 7
East Midlands +3 36 - - 4
South East -3 19 £60,000 - 11
South West -55 9 £60,000 +41.18% 8
East of England -26 6 £77,500 -6.91% 5
West Midlands -20 4 £52,500 +16.67% 3
North West -18 2 £60,000 -17.24% 5
North of England -31 2 £60,000 -17.24% 9

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 5 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.94%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.74%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.24%) AWS
2 16 (11.76%) Azure
2 16 (11.76%) LangSmith
3 12 (8.82%) GCP
4 8 (5.88%) Slack
5 5 (3.68%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (3.68%) Prefect
5 5 (3.68%) SaaS
6 3 (2.21%) GitHub
6 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.47%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.47%) Serverless
7 2 (1.47%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.74%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.74%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.74%) Google Gemini
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.47%) MySQL
1 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.47%) Pinecone
1 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.47%) Redis
2 1 (0.74%) Big Data
2 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.74%) GIS
2 1 (0.74%) Power BI
2 1 (0.74%) QGIS
2 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.74%) Spatial Data
2 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Git
2 3 (2.21%) MLflow
3 2 (1.47%) JIRA
4 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
General
1 54 (39.71%) Finance
2 18 (13.24%) Banking
3 16 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.56%) Financial Institution
6 7 (5.15%) Social Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.47%) Marketing
8 2 (1.47%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) French Language
Job Titles
1 51 (37.50%) Developer
2 47 (34.56%) Data Scientist
3 37 (27.21%) Lead
4 31 (22.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 24 (17.65%) Senior Data Scientist
6 23 (16.91%) Lead Data Scientist
7 22 (16.18%) Python Developer
8 14 (10.29%) Statistician
9 13 (9.56%) Lead Developer
9 13 (9.56%) Senior
10 5 (3.68%) Architect
10 5 (3.68%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Research Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 4 (2.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Python Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Research Scientist
11 4 (2.94%) Security Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Software Engineer
12 2 (1.47%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (47.06%) PyTorch
2 57 (41.91%) TensorFlow
3 29 (21.32%) Hugging Face
4 24 (17.65%) NumPy
4 24 (17.65%) Pandas
5 20 (14.71%) Model Context Protocol
6 18 (13.24%) LangChain
7 16 (11.76%) Langfuse
7 16 (11.76%) LlamaIndex
8 9 (6.62%) Google JAX
8 9 (6.62%) JAX
8 9 (6.62%) OpenCV
9 8 (5.88%) TFX
10 7 (5.15%) SciPy
11 4 (2.94%) scikit-learn
12 3 (2.21%) Flask
12 3 (2.21%) Keras
12 3 (2.21%) React
12 3 (2.21%) REST
13 2 (1.47%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 43 (31.62%) Algorithms
2 19 (13.97%) AI Agents
3 17 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 13 (9.56%) e-Learning
5 9 (6.62%) Blog
6 8 (5.88%) Over-the-Top Content
6 8 (5.88%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.21%) CUDA
8 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.21%) Robotics
9 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.47%) Lidar
9 2 (1.47%) Self-Driving Car
9 2 (1.47%) Stable Diffusion
10 1 (0.74%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.74%) Life Science
10 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.68%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.74%) Android
3 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (73.53%) Machine Learning
2 86 (63.24%) AI
3 79 (58.09%) Data Science
4 47 (34.56%) LLM
4 47 (34.56%) Software Engineering
5 46 (33.82%) Statistics
6 44 (32.35%) Roadmaps
7 40 (29.41%) Generative AI
8 39 (28.68%) Project Management
9 38 (27.94%) Actionable Insight
10 37 (27.21%) Computer Vision
11 35 (25.74%) Mentoring
12 34 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (21.32%) Computer Science
14 26 (19.12%) MLOps
15 25 (18.38%) Agile
16 23 (16.91%) Feature Engineering
16 23 (16.91%) Signal Processing
17 19 (13.97%) Validation
18 17 (12.50%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 114 (83.82%) Python
2 21 (15.44%) SQL
3 11 (8.09%) C++
4 8 (5.88%) Java
5 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.74%) C#
6 1 (0.74%) R
6 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (30.88%) Degree
2 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 14 (10.29%) PhD
4 13 (9.56%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.88%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.68%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.74%) ACCA
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CIMA
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (11.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.88%) Kubeflow
3 4 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (7.35%) Databricks
2 7 (5.15%) Google
3 4 (2.94%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.21%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.74%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.74%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.74%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.74%) Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) Intel
5 1 (0.74%) Revolut