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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 634 700
Rank change year-on-year +12 +66 -13
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 181 45 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 64 29 46
10th Percentile £45,375 £43,250 £51,875
25th Percentile £46,939 £60,000 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £95,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +20.63% +1.61%
75th Percentile £87,000 £111,250 £99,688
90th Percentile £105,875 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.27% -18.28% +3.57%

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 81,751 43,862 64,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.96% 88.49% 80.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,872 24,813 38,457
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £41,500
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,475 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.59%

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 7 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 7 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 +1 172 £60,000 -36.84% 308
UK excluding London -32 97 £60,000 +1.27% 92
London -8 79 £82,500 -17.50% 242
Work from Home +12 61 £86,250 +15.00% 86
Midlands +1 42 £46,500 -38.00% 16
East Midlands +4 36 - - 6
South East -29 17 £60,000 +20.00% 15
East of England -23 12 £47,500 -53.66% 19
South West -69 11 £70,000 +64.71% 17
North of England -52 10 £82,000 +39.57% 12
West Midlands -28 6 £46,500 -13.08% 10
North East - 6 £82,000 - 2
Scotland +8 4 - - 3
North West -17 2 £60,000 +2.13% 9
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.55%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.99%) AWS
2 26 (14.36%) Azure
3 24 (13.26%) LangSmith
4 20 (11.05%) GCP
5 13 (7.18%) Serverless
6 11 (6.08%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.87%) Prefect
8 6 (3.31%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (3.31%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.31%) Slack
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (2.21%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.21%) PaaS
9 4 (2.21%) SaaS
10 3 (1.66%) Vertex AI
11 2 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.10%) dbt
11 2 (1.10%) GitHub
12 1 (0.55%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.52%) Big Data
2 5 (2.76%) Data Mining
3 4 (2.21%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.21%) Oracle BI EE
3 4 (2.21%) Power BI
3 4 (2.21%) QlikView
3 4 (2.21%) Tableau
4 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.10%) MySQL
4 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.10%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.10%) Redis
5 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.55%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.63%) Git
2 6 (3.31%) MLflow
3 2 (1.10%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 85 (46.96%) Finance
2 40 (22.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (18.78%) Banking
4 21 (11.60%) Financial Institution
5 20 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (11.05%) Law
6 17 (9.39%) Marketing
7 15 (8.29%) Social Skills
8 13 (7.18%) Public Sector
9 8 (4.42%) Legal
10 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.21%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.10%) Games
11 2 (1.10%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (37.57%) Lead
2 53 (29.28%) Data Scientist
3 50 (27.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 49 (27.07%) Developer
5 26 (14.36%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (13.26%) Lead Data Scientist
7 20 (11.05%) Python Developer
8 17 (9.39%) Machine Learning Scientist
9 14 (7.73%) Statistician
10 13 (7.18%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.52%) Senior
12 7 (3.87%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) Research Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) Architect
14 5 (2.76%) Research Scientist
15 4 (2.21%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 4 (2.21%) Platform Engineer
15 4 (2.21%) Python Engineer
15 4 (2.21%) Security Engineer
15 4 (2.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (45.86%) PyTorch
2 76 (41.99%) TensorFlow
3 32 (17.68%) Hugging Face
3 32 (17.68%) LangChain
4 30 (16.57%) LlamaIndex
5 28 (15.47%) NumPy
5 28 (15.47%) Pandas
6 27 (14.92%) Model Context Protocol
7 24 (13.26%) Langfuse
8 22 (12.15%) scikit-learn
9 13 (7.18%) Google JAX
9 13 (7.18%) JAX
10 6 (3.31%) Keras
10 6 (3.31%) OpenCV
10 6 (3.31%) TFX
10 6 (3.31%) Web Services
11 5 (2.76%) ONNX
11 5 (2.76%) SciPy
11 5 (2.76%) Terraform
12 4 (2.21%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 52 (28.73%) Algorithms
2 49 (27.07%) Cloud Native
3 32 (17.68%) AI Agents
4 21 (11.60%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.29%) Blog
6 11 (6.08%) Mobile Banking
7 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.31%) Over-the-Top Content
8 6 (3.31%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.21%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.10%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.10%) Podcast
11 2 (1.10%) Stable Diffusion
12 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.55%) Android
2 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (83.43%) Machine Learning
2 122 (67.40%) AI
3 97 (53.59%) Data Science
4 76 (41.99%) LLM
5 73 (40.33%) Software Engineering
6 64 (35.36%) Statistics
7 58 (32.04%) Generative AI
8 56 (30.94%) Mentoring
9 52 (28.73%) Actionable Insight
10 51 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (28.18%) Project Management
11 49 (27.07%) Roadmaps
12 47 (25.97%) Computer Science
12 47 (25.97%) Prompt Engineering
13 41 (22.65%) Agile
14 40 (22.10%) Computer Vision
14 40 (22.10%) MLOps
15 38 (20.99%) Natural Language Processing
16 35 (19.34%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 31 (17.13%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 148 (81.77%) Python
2 38 (20.99%) SQL
3 16 (8.84%) Java
4 8 (4.42%) C++
5 4 (2.21%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.21%) Kotlin
5 4 (2.21%) R
6 1 (0.55%) C#
6 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (37.02%) Degree
2 23 (12.71%) PhD
3 19 (10.50%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.18%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.97%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.42%) DBS Check
7 7 (3.87%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.87%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.31%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.31%) NCSC
2 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 16 (8.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.08%) Kubeflow
1 11 (6.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (8.29%) Databricks
2 7 (3.87%) Google
3 6 (3.31%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.76%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.10%) Revolut
5 2 (1.10%) Workday
6 1 (0.55%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.55%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.55%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.55%) Foundry