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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 621 719
Rank change year-on-year -15 +98 +15
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 152 62 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 57 36 45
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £57,938 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,253 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +6.57% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £109,375 £105,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.83% +7.41%

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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 15 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 August 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 +12 143 £60,000 -33.43% 203
UK excluding London -34 79 £60,000 -13.04% 57
London -4 67 £71,250 -28.75% 160
Work from Home +14 62 £82,500 +10.00% 66
Midlands -6 38 £46,500 -38.00% 9
East Midlands +14 36 - - 2
South East -13 17 £60,000 +20.00% 16
South West -49 11 £70,000 +64.71% 6
North of England -36 6 £71,000 -2.07% 7
Scotland +10 4 - - 4
East of England -37 3 £55,000 -33.93% 9
North West -9 2 £60,000 -17.24% 6
West Midlands -32 2 £46,500 -5.58% 7
North East - 2 £82,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -

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 8 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.66%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.08%) AWS
2 20 (13.16%) LangSmith
3 19 (12.50%) Azure
4 16 (10.53%) GCP
5 10 (6.58%) Serverless
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.61%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (3.95%) Prefect
8 6 (3.95%) Slack
9 4 (2.63%) SaaS
10 3 (1.97%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.97%) GitHub
10 3 (1.97%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.32%) Vertex AI
12 1 (0.66%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.66%) Azure AI
12 1 (0.66%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.66%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.66%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.95%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.97%) Big Data
2 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.32%) MySQL
2 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.32%) Pinecone
2 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.32%) Redis
3 1 (0.66%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.66%) GIS
3 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.66%) Power BI
3 1 (0.66%) QGIS
3 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.66%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (7.89%) Git
2 4 (2.63%) MLflow
3 2 (1.32%) JIRA
4 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
General
1 74 (48.68%) Finance
2 31 (20.39%) Banking
3 29 (19.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.18%) Financial Institution
5 14 (9.21%) Law
6 13 (8.55%) Marketing
7 9 (5.92%) Social Skills
8 8 (5.26%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.63%) Private Banking
10 2 (1.32%) Games
10 2 (1.32%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.66%) French Language
11 1 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (34.21%) Data Scientist
1 52 (34.21%) Lead
2 50 (32.89%) Developer
3 37 (24.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 24 (15.79%) Senior Data Scientist
5 23 (15.13%) Lead Data Scientist
6 21 (13.82%) Python Developer
7 14 (9.21%) Statistician
8 13 (8.55%) Lead Developer
9 11 (7.24%) Machine Learning Scientist
10 8 (5.26%) Senior
11 7 (4.61%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) Research Engineer
13 5 (3.29%) Architect
13 5 (3.29%) Research Scientist
14 4 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 4 (2.63%) Python Engineer
14 4 (2.63%) Security Engineer
15 3 (1.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 3 (1.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (44.74%) PyTorch
2 61 (40.13%) TensorFlow
3 32 (21.05%) Hugging Face
4 26 (17.11%) NumPy
4 26 (17.11%) Pandas
5 24 (15.79%) LangChain
6 23 (15.13%) Model Context Protocol
7 22 (14.47%) LlamaIndex
8 20 (13.16%) Langfuse
9 14 (9.21%) scikit-learn
10 8 (5.26%) Google JAX
10 8 (5.26%) JAX
11 7 (4.61%) OpenCV
11 7 (4.61%) SciPy
12 6 (3.95%) TFX
13 4 (2.63%) Flask
13 4 (2.63%) REST
14 3 (1.97%) FastAPI
14 3 (1.97%) ONNX
14 3 (1.97%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (28.95%) Algorithms
2 32 (21.05%) Cloud Native
3 26 (17.11%) AI Agents
4 17 (11.18%) e-Learning
5 11 (7.24%) Blog
6 8 (5.26%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (3.95%) Over-the-Top Content
7 6 (3.95%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (2.63%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.32%) Stable Diffusion
11 1 (0.66%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.66%) BBC
11 1 (0.66%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.66%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Android
2 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (78.29%) Machine Learning
2 94 (61.84%) AI
3 87 (57.24%) Data Science
4 62 (40.79%) LLM
5 59 (38.82%) Software Engineering
6 55 (36.18%) Statistics
7 49 (32.24%) Actionable Insight
7 49 (32.24%) Generative AI
8 45 (29.61%) Roadmaps
9 44 (28.95%) Mentoring
10 43 (28.29%) Project Management
11 39 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (22.37%) Computer Vision
12 34 (22.37%) Prompt Engineering
13 33 (21.71%) Agile
13 33 (21.71%) Computer Science
14 31 (20.39%) MLOps
15 26 (17.11%) Natural Language Processing
16 25 (16.45%) Validation
17 24 (15.79%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 126 (82.89%) Python
2 33 (21.71%) SQL
3 10 (6.58%) Java
4 8 (5.26%) C++
5 4 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.66%) C#
7 1 (0.66%) R
7 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (32.89%) Degree
2 16 (10.53%) PhD
3 15 (9.87%) DV Cleared
3 15 (9.87%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.26%) DBS Check
5 7 (4.61%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.66%) ACCA
9 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.66%) CIMA
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.32%) NCSC
2 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 16 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.92%) Kubeflow
3 6 (3.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (7.89%) Databricks
2 7 (4.61%) Google
3 5 (3.29%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.97%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.32%) Revolut
6 1 (0.66%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.66%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.66%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.66%) Foundry