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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 619 750
Rank change year-on-year +21 +131 +36
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 141 56 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70 30 94
10th Percentile £46,745 £42,125 £48,250
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% -4.84% +10.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £109,688 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% +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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +9 137 £60,000 -25.12% 53
UK excluding London -6 76 £60,000 -13.04% 25
Work from Home +50 66 £77,500 +10.71% 27
London +12 60 £57,661 -46.36% 36
Midlands +6 40 £52,500 +6.60% 1
East Midlands +1 36 - -
South East -5 19 £60,000 - 5
South West -55 8 £60,000 +41.18% 4
East of England -18 7 £100,000 +56.25% 3
West Midlands -19 4 £52,500 +16.67% 1
North West +1 2 £60,000 -23.93% 7
North of England -28 2 £60,000 -23.93% 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 9 (6.38%) Jupyter
2 5 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.71%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.64%) AWS
2 13 (9.22%) LangSmith
3 12 (8.51%) Azure
4 9 (6.38%) Slack
5 8 (5.67%) GCP
6 6 (4.26%) SaaS
7 5 (3.55%) Prefect
8 4 (2.84%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (2.13%) GitHub
9 3 (2.13%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (1.42%) Serverless
10 2 (1.42%) Vertex AI
11 1 (0.71%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.71%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.42%) MySQL
1 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.42%) Pinecone
1 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.42%) Redis
2 1 (0.71%) Big Data
2 1 (0.71%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.71%) GIS
2 1 (0.71%) Power BI
2 1 (0.71%) QGIS
2 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.71%) Spatial Data
2 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.80%) Git
2 3 (2.13%) MLflow
3 2 (1.42%) JIRA
4 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
General
1 51 (36.17%) Finance
2 24 (17.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (12.77%) Banking
4 16 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.09%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.55%) Social Skills
7 3 (2.13%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.42%) Marketing
8 2 (1.42%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) French Language
Job Titles
1 51 (36.17%) Developer
2 46 (32.62%) Data Scientist
3 38 (26.95%) Lead
4 26 (18.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 24 (17.02%) Senior Data Scientist
6 23 (16.31%) Lead Data Scientist
7 22 (15.60%) Python Developer
8 19 (13.48%) Senior
9 14 (9.93%) Statistician
10 13 (9.22%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) Research Engineer
13 4 (2.84%) Architect
13 4 (2.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 4 (2.84%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.84%) Research Scientist
13 4 (2.84%) Security Engineer
14 3 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 3 (2.13%) C++ Software Engineer
14 3 (2.13%) CUDA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (51.06%) PyTorch
2 58 (41.13%) TensorFlow
3 28 (19.86%) Hugging Face
4 24 (17.02%) NumPy
4 24 (17.02%) Pandas
5 16 (11.35%) Model Context Protocol
6 15 (10.64%) LangChain
7 13 (9.22%) LlamaIndex
8 10 (7.09%) Google JAX
8 10 (7.09%) JAX
9 9 (6.38%) OpenCV
9 9 (6.38%) TFX
10 7 (4.96%) SciPy
11 4 (2.84%) EDI
11 4 (2.84%) scikit-learn
12 3 (2.13%) Flask
12 3 (2.13%) Keras
12 3 (2.13%) REST
13 2 (1.42%) FastAPI
13 2 (1.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (30.50%) Algorithms
2 16 (11.35%) AI Agents
3 14 (9.93%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.09%) e-Learning
5 9 (6.38%) Blog
5 9 (6.38%) Over-the-Top Content
5 9 (6.38%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (3.55%) CUDA
7 4 (2.84%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.13%) Robotics
9 2 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.42%) Lidar
9 2 (1.42%) Self-Driving Car
10 1 (0.71%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.71%) Life Science
10 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.71%) Stable Diffusion
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.55%) Linux
2 2 (1.42%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.71%) Android
3 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (71.63%) Machine Learning
2 90 (63.83%) AI
3 82 (58.16%) Data Science
4 51 (36.17%) Statistics
5 50 (35.46%) Software Engineering
6 46 (32.62%) LLM
7 44 (31.21%) Roadmaps
8 43 (30.50%) Computer Vision
9 38 (26.95%) Actionable Insight
9 38 (26.95%) Generative AI
10 36 (25.53%) Mentoring
10 36 (25.53%) Project Management
11 35 (24.82%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (21.99%) Computer Science
13 24 (17.02%) Feature Engineering
14 23 (16.31%) MLOps
14 23 (16.31%) Signal Processing
15 21 (14.89%) Agile
16 19 (13.48%) Mathematics
16 19 (13.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 118 (83.69%) Python
2 20 (14.18%) SQL
3 10 (7.09%) C++
4 5 (3.55%) Java
5 3 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.71%) R
6 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (33.33%) Degree
2 25 (17.73%) Security Cleared
3 22 (15.60%) PhD
4 13 (9.22%) SC Cleared
5 12 (8.51%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.67%) DBS Check
7 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.84%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) ACCA
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CIMA
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (9.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.38%) Kubeflow
2 8 (5.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (6.38%) Databricks
2 6 (4.26%) Google
3 4 (2.84%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.71%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.71%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.71%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.71%) Foundry
5 1 (0.71%) Intel