Deep Learning Job Trends

Deep Learning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 703 674
Rank change year-on-year +78 -29 +76
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 48 89 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 29 44 78
10th Percentile £45,750 £51,125 £44,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +4.92% -4.69%
75th Percentile £111,250 £96,563 £96,539
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £109,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

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 43,694 63,053 58,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.68% 81.08% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,544 35,778 43,624
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Deep Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Deep Learning 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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 13 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 September 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 +95 47 £95,000 +11.76% 139
London +57 30 £97,500 +11.43% 106
UK excluding London +76 18 £65,000 - 66
Work from Home +57 14 £85,000 +6.25% 69
North of England +56 4 £58,750 +6.82% 3
North West +5 4 £58,750 +6.82% 1
East of England -3 4 £102,500 +28.13% 10
South West +68 3 - -
Midlands +66 3 £75,000 -40.00% 2
South East +42 3 £50,000 -31.03% 42
East Midlands +21 2 £85,000 -32.00%
Scotland +49 1 - - 6
West Midlands - 1 £53,500 - 2

Deep Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (31.25%) Apache Spark
2 6 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 29 (60.42%) AWS
2 27 (56.25%) Azure
3 19 (39.58%) GCP
4 10 (20.83%) Amazon SageMaker
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (10.42%) Prefect
6 5 (10.42%) Serverless
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.17%) Datadog
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.08%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) Big Data
2 5 (10.42%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.42%) Hadoop
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 4 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (8.33%) MySQL
3 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.17%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.08%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.08%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.08%) Power BI
5 1 (2.08%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) MLflow
2 9 (18.75%) Git
3 4 (8.33%) GitLab
4 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Banking
3 7 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (10.42%) Law
5 4 (8.33%) Marketing
6 3 (6.25%) Aerospace
7 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Advertising
8 1 (2.08%) Aviation
8 1 (2.08%) Czech Language
8 1 (2.08%) Games
8 1 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Senior
2 10 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Data Scientist
4 5 (10.42%) Head of AI
5 4 (8.33%) Associate Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Data Scientist
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Data Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Data Science Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (4.17%) Head of Strategy
7 2 (4.17%) Quantitative Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 27 (56.25%) TensorFlow
3 23 (47.92%) scikit-learn
4 8 (16.67%) Hugging Face
5 6 (12.50%) Kafka
6 5 (10.42%) Google JAX
6 5 (10.42%) JAX
6 5 (10.42%) LangChain
6 5 (10.42%) NumPy
7 4 (8.33%) FastAPI
7 4 (8.33%) JSON Web Signature
7 4 (8.33%) JWT
7 4 (8.33%) LangGraph
7 4 (8.33%) OAuth
7 4 (8.33%) OpenID
8 3 (6.25%) Keras
8 3 (6.25%) ONNX
8 3 (6.25%) Pandas
8 3 (6.25%) SpaCy
9 2 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.42%) AI Agents
2 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.25%) Robotics
5 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.17%) Sports Betting
6 1 (2.08%) Blog
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.08%) Genomics
6 1 (2.08%) NHS
6 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (89.58%) Machine Learning
2 42 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 32 (66.67%) Data Science
4 23 (47.92%) MLOps
5 20 (41.67%) Computer Vision
6 19 (39.58%) LLM
6 19 (39.58%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (37.50%) Natural Language Processing
7 18 (37.50%) Software Engineering
8 15 (31.25%) Containerisation
9 14 (29.17%) Analytics
9 14 (29.17%) Computer Science
10 11 (22.92%) Data Engineering
10 11 (22.92%) Generative AI
11 10 (20.83%) Agile
11 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
11 10 (20.83%) DevOps
11 10 (20.83%) Mathematics
11 10 (20.83%) Statistics
12 9 (18.75%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 42 (87.50%) Python
2 18 (37.50%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 5 (10.42%) R
5 4 (8.33%) C++
5 4 (8.33%) Rust
6 3 (6.25%) Bash
7 2 (4.17%) C#
7 2 (4.17%) Perl
8 1 (2.08%) Go
8 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.08%) Julia
Qualifications
1 22 (45.83%) Degree
2 16 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 10 (20.83%) PhD
4 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.17%) MCP
7 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.58%) Kubeflow
3 6 (12.50%) Terraform
4 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.08%) Bugsnag
5 1 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) OpenAI
2 3 (6.25%) Databricks
3 2 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft