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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 549 696
Rank change year-on-year -68 +147 +171
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 85 81 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 60 46 102
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,110 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -16.13% +8.39%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,134 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £124,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% +4.00%

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 63,952 38,221 79,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.80% 92.98% 86.04%
Number of salaries quoted 39,483 22,497 58,940
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -8.26%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -55 81 £60,000 -3.23% 51
London +7 48 £58,831 -38.07% 29
UK excluding London -97 33 £60,000 +33.33% 27
Work from Home +10 27 £55,000 -21.43% 12
South East -19 15 £60,000 - 11
East of England -32 7 £100,000 +56.25% 2
West Midlands -21 6 £52,500 +31.25% 2
Midlands -51 6 £52,500 +31.25% 3
South West -41 4 £65,000 +52.94% 6
North West -40 1 £60,000 -7.69% 4
North of England -71 1 £60,000 -7.69% 5

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 (10.59%) Jupyter
2 5 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.18%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.12%) AWS
2 10 (11.76%) Azure
3 6 (7.06%) SaaS
4 5 (5.88%) GCP
4 5 (5.88%) Prefect
4 5 (5.88%) Slack
5 4 (4.71%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (4.71%) Serverless
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.53%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.35%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.35%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.35%) GitHub
7 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.71%) Big Data
1 4 (4.71%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.18%) GIS
3 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.18%) Power BI
3 1 (1.18%) QGIS
3 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.18%) Spatial Data
3 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (14.12%) Git
2 4 (4.71%) MLflow
3 2 (2.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (18.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Finance
3 8 (9.41%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.88%) Marketing
6 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Advertising
8 1 (1.18%) Billing
8 1 (1.18%) Digital Economy
8 1 (1.18%) Electronics
8 1 (1.18%) French Language
8 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Law
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
8 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Senior
2 17 (20.00%) Developer
3 16 (18.82%) Python Developer
4 14 (16.47%) Data Scientist
5 11 (12.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (10.59%) Lead
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Architect
9 3 (3.53%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Consultant
9 3 (3.53%) CUDA Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) CUDA Software Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Data Consultant
9 3 (3.53%) Data Science Consultant
9 3 (3.53%) Machine Learning Scientist
10 2 (2.35%) Analyst
10 2 (2.35%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.35%) Principal Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (55.29%) PyTorch
2 35 (41.18%) TensorFlow
3 21 (24.71%) Pandas
4 19 (22.35%) NumPy
5 10 (11.76%) Google JAX
5 10 (11.76%) JAX
6 8 (9.41%) OpenCV
7 7 (8.24%) scikit-learn
7 7 (8.24%) SciPy
8 5 (5.88%) Hugging Face
8 5 (5.88%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (5.88%) TFX
9 4 (4.71%) EDI
9 4 (4.71%) LangChain
10 2 (2.35%) Django
10 2 (2.35%) FastAPI
10 2 (2.35%) Flask
10 2 (2.35%) Keras
10 2 (2.35%) REST
10 2 (2.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (48.24%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.06%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.88%) CUDA
3 5 (5.88%) Over-the-Top Content
3 5 (5.88%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.53%) Robotics
5 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Lidar
5 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Self-Driving Car
6 1 (1.18%) BBC
6 1 (1.18%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.18%) Life Science
6 1 (1.18%) Social Network
6 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (69.41%) AI
2 56 (65.88%) Machine Learning
3 40 (47.06%) Data Science
4 37 (43.53%) Computer Vision
5 32 (37.65%) LLM
6 27 (31.76%) Generative AI
7 24 (28.24%) Computer Science
8 21 (24.71%) Software Engineering
9 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (21.18%) Mathematics
11 17 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
11 17 (20.00%) Signal Processing
11 17 (20.00%) Statistics
12 16 (18.82%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (17.65%) Analytics
13 15 (17.65%) Test Automation
14 13 (15.29%) Issue Tracking
14 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
15 12 (14.12%) MLOps
15 12 (14.12%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 67 (78.82%) Python
2 7 (8.24%) C++
3 6 (7.06%) SQL
4 4 (4.71%) Java
4 4 (4.71%) R
5 1 (1.18%) C
5 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.18%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.18%) Scala
5 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (43.53%) Degree
2 23 (27.06%) PhD
3 19 (22.35%) Security Cleared
4 15 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 7 (8.24%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.18%) ACCA
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.18%) CIMA
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.18%) EU AI Act
1 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.88%) Kubeflow
3 2 (2.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (9.41%) Databricks
2 5 (5.88%) Google
2 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.53%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.35%) Foundry
5 1 (1.18%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.18%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.18%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.18%) Intel
5 1 (1.18%) SAP