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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 629 608
Rank change year-on-year +35 -21 +234
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 51 84 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 33 46 76
10th Percentile £46,939 £37,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £57,251 £38,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -23.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £96,539
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,250 £87,500
% change year-on-year +61.49% -54.00% +52.17%

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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 11 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 4 January 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 +68 49 £65,000 -7.14% 466
London +63 34 £68,000 -19.46% 176
Work from Home +74 17 £71,000 -2.07% 437
UK excluding London +35 15 £65,000 +61.49% 407
South East +16 4 £65,000 -10.34% 155
South West +13 4 £90,000 +24.14% 41
West Midlands +23 3 £67,500 +68.75% 24
East of England +20 3 £35,000 - 94
Midlands +13 3 £67,500 +68.75% 47
North West +23 1 £65,000 +8.33% 22
North of England +16 1 £65,000 +8.33% 50

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 11 (21.57%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.88%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.96%) Confluence
4 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) AWS
1 14 (27.45%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) GCP
3 3 (5.88%) Prefect
3 3 (5.88%) Serverless
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (3.92%) GitHub
4 2 (3.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.96%) Datadog
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.96%) PaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.96%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) Big Data
2 4 (7.84%) Hadoop
3 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.96%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) MLflow
2 7 (13.73%) Git
3 4 (7.84%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Finance
4 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.84%) Marketing
7 3 (5.88%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.92%) Law
8 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Advertising
9 1 (1.96%) Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Billing
9 1 (1.96%) Digital Economy
9 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Legal
9 1 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (1.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) Data Scientist
3 9 (17.65%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Data Scientist
5 3 (5.88%) Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Head of AI
5 3 (5.88%) Lead
5 3 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 3 (5.88%) Principal Data Scientist
6 2 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Head of Data Science
6 2 (3.92%) Python Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Consultant
7 1 (1.96%) Junior
7 1 (1.96%) Network Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Principal Consultant
7 1 (1.96%) Senior Developer
7 1 (1.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (56.86%) PyTorch
2 27 (52.94%) TensorFlow
3 14 (27.45%) scikit-learn
4 6 (11.76%) Hugging Face
4 6 (11.76%) Kafka
5 5 (9.80%) Google JAX
5 5 (9.80%) JAX
6 3 (5.88%) LangChain
6 3 (5.88%) Pandas
7 2 (3.92%) Django
7 2 (3.92%) EDI
7 2 (3.92%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.92%) pydantic
7 2 (3.92%) RESTful
7 2 (3.92%) XGBoost
8 1 (1.96%) CrewAI
8 1 (1.96%) LangGraph
8 1 (1.96%) ONNX
8 1 (1.96%) Streamlit
8 1 (1.96%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 18 (35.29%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Robotics
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Social Network
5 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (88.24%) AI
2 43 (84.31%) Machine Learning
3 29 (56.86%) Data Science
4 26 (50.98%) LLM
5 19 (37.25%) Natural Language Processing
6 18 (35.29%) Computer Vision
7 16 (31.37%) Computer Science
7 16 (31.37%) Generative AI
7 16 (31.37%) MLOps
7 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (27.45%) Software Engineering
9 13 (25.49%) Mathematics
10 11 (21.57%) Statistics
11 9 (17.65%) Analytics
11 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
11 9 (17.65%) Reinforcement Learning
12 8 (15.69%) Data Analysis
12 8 (15.69%) Mentoring
12 8 (15.69%) Predictive Modelling
13 7 (13.73%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 41 (80.39%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) SQL
3 3 (5.88%) Bash
3 3 (5.88%) Java
3 3 (5.88%) R
4 2 (3.92%) C++
4 2 (3.92%) Perl
5 1 (1.96%) C
5 1 (1.96%) Go
5 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) Degree
2 11 (21.57%) PhD
2 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
4 8 (15.69%) Master's Degree
5 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (7.84%) MCP
6 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Kubeflow
3 4 (7.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Databricks
2 2 (3.92%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) Foundry
3 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle
3 1 (1.96%) SAP
3 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow