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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 617 746
Rank change year-on-year -9 +129 -1
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 136 63 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59 37 73
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £50,250
25th Percentile £46,939 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +4.90%
75th Percentile £82,500 £105,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,750 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £61,391
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.39% -1.77%

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 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%
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 17 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 14 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 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 -6 130 £60,000 -29.62% 63
UK excluding London -28 77 £60,000 -13.04% 17
Work from Home +19 65 £66,250 -11.67% 23
London +2 53 £60,000 -38.46% 52
Midlands +4 40 £52,500 -18.29%
East Midlands +20 36 - -
South East -6 18 £60,000 - 7
South West -45 9 £60,000 +41.18% 5
East of England -21 6 £77,500 -6.91% 2
West Midlands -18 4 £52,500 +16.67%
North of England -30 3 £60,000 -17.24% 2
North West -9 2 £60,000 -17.24% 2
Scotland +4 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 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 5 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.47%) 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 17 (12.50%) LangSmith
3 16 (11.76%) Azure
4 12 (8.82%) GCP
5 8 (5.88%) Slack
6 5 (3.68%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.68%) Prefect
6 5 (3.68%) SaaS
7 3 (2.21%) GitHub
7 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.47%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (1.47%) Serverless
8 2 (1.47%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.74%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.74%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.74%) Google Gemini
9 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 56 (41.18%) Finance
2 19 (13.97%) Banking
3 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.29%) Financial Institution
4 14 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.15%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.21%) Marketing
8 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.47%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) French Language
9 1 (0.74%) Games
9 1 (0.74%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (36.76%) Developer
2 48 (35.29%) Data Scientist
3 38 (27.94%) Lead
4 32 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 24 (17.65%) Senior Data Scientist
6 23 (16.91%) Lead Data Scientist
7 21 (15.44%) Python Developer
8 14 (10.29%) Statistician
9 13 (9.56%) Lead Developer
10 11 (8.09%) Senior
11 5 (3.68%) Architect
11 5 (3.68%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Research Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 4 (2.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) Python Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) Research Scientist
12 4 (2.94%) Security Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) Software Engineer
13 2 (1.47%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (45.59%) PyTorch
2 56 (41.18%) TensorFlow
3 30 (22.06%) Hugging Face
4 23 (16.91%) NumPy
4 23 (16.91%) Pandas
5 21 (15.44%) Model Context Protocol
6 19 (13.97%) LangChain
7 17 (12.50%) Langfuse
7 17 (12.50%) LlamaIndex
8 9 (6.62%) OpenCV
9 8 (5.88%) Google JAX
9 8 (5.88%) JAX
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%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 44 (32.35%) Algorithms
2 21 (15.44%) AI Agents
3 18 (13.24%) Cloud Native
4 14 (10.29%) 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%) BBC
10 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.74%) Life Science
10 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
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
1 101 (74.26%) Machine Learning
2 86 (63.24%) AI
3 79 (58.09%) Data Science
4 47 (34.56%) LLM
5 46 (33.82%) Software Engineering
6 44 (32.35%) Roadmaps
6 44 (32.35%) Statistics
7 42 (30.88%) Generative AI
8 40 (29.41%) Project Management
9 39 (28.68%) Actionable Insight
10 35 (25.74%) Mentoring
11 34 (25.00%) Computer Vision
11 34 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (20.59%) Computer Science
13 27 (19.85%) MLOps
14 26 (19.12%) Agile
15 24 (17.65%) Feature Engineering
16 22 (16.18%) Signal Processing
17 21 (15.44%) Validation
18 18 (13.24%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 113 (83.09%) Python
2 22 (16.18%) 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 41 (30.15%) Degree
2 15 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.56%) DV Cleared
4 12 (8.82%) PhD
5 8 (5.88%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.47%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) ACCA
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.74%) CIMA
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 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 2 (1.47%) Revolut
6 1 (0.74%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.74%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.74%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.74%) Foundry
6 1 (0.74%) Intel