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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 582 723
Rank change year-on-year -46 +141 +97
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 108 64 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 64 33 103
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,500 £48,400
25th Percentile £46,939 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,831 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £60,000 £105,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £96,250 £118,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +6.12%

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 68,427 39,782 82,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 93.32% 84.70%
Number of salaries quoted 44,356 20,831 59,666
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,797 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -31 106 £58,831 -21.56% 57
London +11 56 £57,661 -46.36% 33
UK excluding London -40 50 £60,000 -6.25% 25
Work from Home +20 39 £55,000 -26.67% 27
Midlands -21 19 £50,000 +11.11% 3
South East -6 17 £60,000 - 7
East Midlands -21 14 - - 1
South West -49 7 £60,000 +41.18% 4
East of England -16 5 £100,000 +56.25% 4
West Midlands -35 5 £50,000 +11.11% 2
North West -9 2 £60,000 -17.24% 4
North of England -57 2 £60,000 -17.24% 6

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 9 (8.33%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.19%) AWS
2 9 (8.33%) Azure
3 7 (6.48%) LangSmith
3 7 (6.48%) Slack
4 6 (5.56%) SaaS
5 5 (4.63%) GCP
5 5 (4.63%) Prefect
6 4 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.85%) Serverless
8 2 (1.85%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.93%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.93%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.93%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.78%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.85%) Big Data
3 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.93%) GIS
3 1 (0.93%) Power BI
3 1 (0.93%) QGIS
3 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.93%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) MLflow
3 2 (1.85%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
General
1 25 (23.15%) Finance
2 24 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.41%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.56%) Banking
6 3 (2.78%) Marketing
6 3 (2.78%) Social Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.93%) Advertising
8 1 (0.93%) Digital Economy
8 1 (0.93%) French Language
8 1 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (25.00%) Developer
2 25 (23.15%) Data Scientist
3 22 (20.37%) Python Developer
4 21 (19.44%) Lead
5 19 (17.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 17 (15.74%) Senior
7 14 (12.96%) Senior Data Scientist
8 12 (11.11%) Lead Data Scientist
9 5 (4.63%) Research Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Research Scientist
10 4 (3.70%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Statistician
11 3 (2.78%) C++ Software Engineer
11 3 (2.78%) CUDA Engineer
11 3 (2.78%) CUDA Software Engineer
11 3 (2.78%) Machine Learning Scientist
12 2 (1.85%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 2 (1.85%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (50.93%) PyTorch
2 43 (39.81%) TensorFlow
3 25 (23.15%) Pandas
4 24 (22.22%) NumPy
5 15 (13.89%) Hugging Face
6 10 (9.26%) Google JAX
6 10 (9.26%) JAX
6 10 (9.26%) Model Context Protocol
7 9 (8.33%) LangChain
8 8 (7.41%) OpenCV
9 7 (6.48%) LlamaIndex
9 7 (6.48%) SciPy
9 7 (6.48%) TFX
10 4 (3.70%) EDI
10 4 (3.70%) scikit-learn
11 1 (0.93%) JSON
11 1 (0.93%) Kafka
11 1 (0.93%) Matplotlib
11 1 (0.93%) REST
11 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (38.89%) Algorithms
2 12 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.41%) Blog
3 8 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.48%) e-Learning
4 7 (6.48%) Over-the-Top Content
4 7 (6.48%) Video\Live Streaming
5 5 (4.63%) CUDA
6 3 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.78%) Robotics
7 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.85%) Lidar
7 2 (1.85%) Self-Driving Car
8 1 (0.93%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.93%) BBC
8 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.93%) Life Science
8 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.93%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
2 2 (1.85%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (65.74%) Machine Learning
2 68 (62.96%) AI
3 55 (50.93%) Data Science
4 43 (39.81%) Computer Vision
5 38 (35.19%) LLM
6 32 (29.63%) Software Engineering
7 31 (28.70%) Generative AI
8 29 (26.85%) Statistics
9 28 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (25.00%) Computer Science
11 23 (21.30%) Signal Processing
12 21 (19.44%) Mentoring
12 21 (19.44%) Roadmaps
13 18 (16.67%) MLOps
13 18 (16.67%) Project Management
13 18 (16.67%) Test Automation
14 17 (15.74%) Actionable Insight
14 17 (15.74%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (14.81%) Mathematics
16 13 (12.04%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 87 (80.56%) Python
2 6 (5.56%) C++
3 5 (4.63%) SQL
4 2 (1.85%) Java
5 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.93%) R
5 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (37.96%) Degree
2 25 (23.15%) PhD
3 24 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 13 (12.04%) SC Cleared
5 11 (10.19%) DV Cleared
6 8 (7.41%) DBS Check
7 5 (4.63%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.93%) ACCA
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.93%) CIMA
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.48%) Kubeflow
2 6 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (7.41%) Databricks
2 3 (2.78%) Google
2 3 (2.78%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.93%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
4 1 (0.93%) DataRobot
4 1 (0.93%) Foundry
4 1 (0.93%) Intel