Deep Learning Job Trends

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 620 628
Rank change year-on-year +27 +8 +234
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 65 83 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 43 46 102
10th Percentile £46,939 £37,500 £45,800
25th Percentile £57,251 £38,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -19.35% +6.90%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £124,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +44.44% -30.77% +8.33%

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 51,135 47,583 62,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.17% 91.57% 88.82%
Number of salaries quoted 30,200 22,958 48,143
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,531 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +41 63 £60,000 -7.69% 52
London +56 40 £58,831 -33.80% 34
UK excluding London +12 23 £65,000 +44.44% 29
Work from Home +50 20 £71,000 -2.07% 18
South East +24 8 £62,500 -13.79% 18
East of England +24 5 £67,500 - 4
West Midlands +18 5 £55,000 +37.50% 1
Midlands +8 5 £55,000 +37.50% 1
South West +7 4 £90,000 +24.14% 1
North West +13 1 £65,000 +8.33% 2
North of England -7 1 £65,000 +8.33% 3

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 (13.85%) Jupyter
2 8 (12.31%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) Azure
2 10 (15.38%) AWS
3 5 (7.69%) GCP
4 4 (6.15%) SaaS
5 3 (4.62%) Serverless
5 3 (4.62%) Slack
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.08%) GitHub
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.54%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.54%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.54%) Dialogflow
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.54%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) Big Data
2 4 (6.15%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) MLflow
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 4 (6.15%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 16 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (10.77%) Finance
5 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.15%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.15%) Marketing
7 3 (4.62%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.08%) Advertising
8 2 (3.08%) Law
8 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Banking
9 1 (1.54%) Billing
9 1 (1.54%) Digital Economy
9 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.54%) Legal
9 1 (1.54%) Retail
9 1 (1.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Senior
2 13 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 10 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Lead
4 5 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
5 4 (6.15%) Developer
6 3 (4.62%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) CUDA Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) CUDA Software Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 3 (4.62%) Principal Data Scientist
6 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Head of Data Science
7 2 (3.08%) Robotics Engineer
8 1 (1.54%) Compiler Engineer
8 1 (1.54%) Data Consultant
8 1 (1.54%) Python Developer
8 1 (1.54%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (58.46%) PyTorch
2 27 (41.54%) TensorFlow
3 9 (13.85%) scikit-learn
4 5 (7.69%) Google JAX
4 5 (7.69%) JAX
5 4 (6.15%) EDI
5 4 (6.15%) Pandas
6 3 (4.62%) Hugging Face
6 3 (4.62%) Kafka
6 3 (4.62%) LangChain
6 3 (4.62%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (4.62%) TFX
7 2 (3.08%) Django
7 2 (3.08%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.08%) NumPy
7 2 (3.08%) OpenCV
7 2 (3.08%) pydantic
7 2 (3.08%) RESTful
7 2 (3.08%) XGBoost
8 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.92%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.69%) CUDA
3 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.62%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (4.62%) Robotics
4 3 (4.62%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.08%) Lidar
5 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.08%) Self-Driving Car
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Social Network
6 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (84.62%) AI
2 50 (76.92%) Machine Learning
3 37 (56.92%) Data Science
4 30 (46.15%) LLM
5 24 (36.92%) Computer Vision
6 23 (35.38%) Computer Science
7 19 (29.23%) Mathematics
7 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (27.69%) Generative AI
9 17 (26.15%) Software Engineering
10 16 (24.62%) Natural Language Processing
10 16 (24.62%) Statistics
11 14 (21.54%) Test Automation
12 13 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
12 13 (20.00%) MLOps
13 11 (16.92%) Physics
13 11 (16.92%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (15.38%) Analytics
14 10 (15.38%) Data Analysis
14 10 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 53 (81.54%) Python
2 8 (12.31%) SQL
3 7 (10.77%) C++
4 3 (4.62%) Java
4 3 (4.62%) R
5 1 (1.54%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) C
5 1 (1.54%) Go
5 1 (1.54%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (47.69%) Degree
2 20 (30.77%) PhD
3 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
4 18 (27.69%) SC Cleared
5 8 (12.31%) Master's Degree
6 4 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Kubeflow
2 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.08%) Databricks
2 2 (3.08%) Google
3 1 (1.54%) Foundry
3 1 (1.54%) Intel
3 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle
3 1 (1.54%) SAP
3 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow