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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 627 700
Rank change year-on-year +3 +73 -32
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 179 46 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.094% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 56 28 44
10th Percentile £46,595 £45,500 £51,125
25th Percentile £47,360 £61,875 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.53% +18.75% +3.23%
75th Percentile £87,000 £111,250 £94,063
90th Percentile £108,125 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% -2.00%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -3 170 £60,000 -36.84% 338
UK excluding London -60 97 £60,000 -7.69% 115
London -19 77 £71,250 -25.00% 238
Work from Home 0 56 £106,250 +25.00% 115
Midlands -7 41 - - 13
East Midlands +6 36 - - 6
South East -30 17 £60,000 +20.00% 23
East of England -17 14 £47,500 -53.66% 21
North of England -60 12 £82,000 +39.57% 30
South West -72 8 £70,000 - 15
North East - 8 £82,000 - 4
West Midlands -45 5 - - 7
Scotland +9 4 - - 8
North West -40 2 £60,000 +2.13% 20
Yorkshire - 2 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 7 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.23%) AWS
2 28 (15.64%) Azure
3 26 (14.53%) LangSmith
4 22 (12.29%) GCP
5 12 (6.70%) Serverless
6 11 (6.15%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.35%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.79%) PaaS
8 5 (2.79%) Slack
9 4 (2.23%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (2.23%) Google Gemini
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.68%) Prefect
10 3 (1.68%) SaaS
11 2 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.12%) dbt
11 2 (1.12%) GitHub
11 2 (1.12%) Vertex AI
12 1 (0.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.79%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.15%) Big Data
2 5 (2.79%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.79%) Data Mining
2 5 (2.79%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (2.79%) Power BI
2 5 (2.79%) QlikView
2 5 (2.79%) Tableau
3 3 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.12%) MySQL
4 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.12%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.12%) Redis
5 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.56%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.47%) MLflow
2 7 (3.91%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 87 (48.60%) Finance
2 42 (23.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (18.99%) Banking
4 23 (12.85%) Financial Institution
5 20 (11.17%) Law
6 19 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (10.06%) Social Skills
8 17 (9.50%) Marketing
9 14 (7.82%) Public Sector
10 9 (5.03%) Legal
11 6 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.23%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.12%) Aviation
13 2 (1.12%) Games
13 2 (1.12%) Public Speaking
13 2 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (38.55%) Lead
2 53 (29.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 53 (29.61%) Data Scientist
3 42 (23.46%) Developer
4 26 (14.53%) Senior Data Scientist
5 24 (13.41%) Lead Data Scientist
6 17 (9.50%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 14 (7.82%) Statistician
8 13 (7.26%) Lead Developer
8 13 (7.26%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.59%) Senior
10 7 (3.91%) Research Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Data Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Architect
12 5 (2.79%) Research Scientist
13 4 (2.23%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.23%) Security Engineer
13 4 (2.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 3 (1.68%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 3 (1.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (45.81%) PyTorch
2 74 (41.34%) TensorFlow
3 35 (19.55%) LangChain
4 34 (18.99%) Hugging Face
4 34 (18.99%) LlamaIndex
5 29 (16.20%) Model Context Protocol
6 26 (14.53%) Langfuse
7 24 (13.41%) scikit-learn
8 23 (12.85%) NumPy
8 23 (12.85%) Pandas
9 10 (5.59%) Google JAX
9 10 (5.59%) JAX
10 8 (4.47%) Web Services
11 7 (3.91%) ONNX
12 6 (3.35%) FastAPI
12 6 (3.35%) Keras
13 5 (2.79%) OpenCV
13 5 (2.79%) TFX
14 4 (2.23%) Flask
14 4 (2.23%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 53 (29.61%) Cloud Native
2 47 (26.26%) Algorithms
3 34 (18.99%) AI Agents
4 23 (12.85%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.38%) Blog
6 11 (6.15%) Mobile Banking
7 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.79%) Over-the-Top Content
8 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.79%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.79%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.12%) CUDA
10 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.12%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.12%) Podcast
10 2 (1.12%) Stable Diffusion
10 2 (1.12%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.12%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Android
2 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.56%) CentOS
2 1 (0.56%) Debian
2 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
2 1 (0.56%) Unix
2 1 (0.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (87.71%) Machine Learning
2 127 (70.95%) AI
3 97 (54.19%) Data Science
4 82 (45.81%) LLM
5 69 (38.55%) Software Engineering
6 64 (35.75%) Statistics
7 60 (33.52%) Generative AI
8 56 (31.28%) Mentoring
8 56 (31.28%) Project Management
9 55 (30.73%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (29.05%) Actionable Insight
10 52 (29.05%) Computer Science
11 51 (28.49%) Prompt Engineering
12 48 (26.82%) Roadmaps
13 45 (25.14%) MLOps
14 43 (24.02%) Natural Language Processing
15 42 (23.46%) Agile
16 38 (21.23%) Computer Vision
17 37 (20.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 36 (20.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (82.68%) Python
2 41 (22.91%) SQL
3 16 (8.94%) Java
4 8 (4.47%) C++
5 6 (3.35%) R
6 4 (2.23%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.68%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.56%) C
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) Fortran
8 1 (0.56%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (38.55%) Degree
2 27 (15.08%) PhD
3 20 (11.17%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.26%) Master's Degree
5 12 (6.70%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.03%) AWS Certification
6 9 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.47%) DBS Check
8 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.03%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.47%) NCSC
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Ceph
2 1 (0.56%) Lustre
2 1 (0.56%) NFS
2 1 (0.56%) Samba
2 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (5.59%) Kubeflow
2 8 (4.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 10 (5.59%) Databricks
2 6 (3.35%) Google
3 5 (2.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.79%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.12%) Revolut
4 2 (1.12%) Thales
4 2 (1.12%) Workday
5 1 (0.56%) Apple
5 1 (0.56%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.56%) Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat