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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 620 698
Rank change year-on-year +5 +78 -33
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 176 43 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.087% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.097% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50 26 40
10th Percentile £46,939 £45,000 £51,050
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,313 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £95,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +23.38% +10.00%
75th Percentile £87,000 £107,813 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £106,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £59,250 £56,250
% change year-on-year +18.14% +5.33% -8.16%

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 86,487 44,218 59,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.02% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59,402 24,461 32,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 October 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 October 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 -3 167 £70,000 -26.32% 415
UK excluding London -38 93 £70,000 +18.14% 125
London -25 78 £71,250 -25.00% 303
Work from Home -8 55 £110,000 +15.79% 139
Midlands +2 41 - - 15
East Midlands +5 36 - - 9
East of England -25 14 £47,500 -53.66% 22
North of England -51 13 £82,000 +39.57% 26
South East -34 11 £62,500 +25.00% 39
South West -67 9 £70,000 - 7
North East - 9 £82,000 - 2
West Midlands -42 5 - - 6
Scotland +9 4 - - 10
North West -25 2 £60,000 +2.13% 16
Yorkshire - 2 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 6 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.73%) AWS
2 29 (16.48%) Azure
2 29 (16.48%) LangSmith
3 23 (13.07%) GCP
4 12 (6.82%) Serverless
5 11 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 11 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.41%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.84%) PaaS
8 4 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (2.27%) Google Gemini
8 4 (2.27%) Slack
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (1.70%) SaaS
10 2 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.14%) dbt
10 2 (1.14%) GitHub
10 2 (1.14%) Prefect
10 2 (1.14%) Vertex AI
11 1 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.27%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) DHCP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.82%) Big Data
2 5 (2.84%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.84%) Data Mining
2 5 (2.84%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (2.84%) Power BI
2 5 (2.84%) QlikView
2 5 (2.84%) Tableau
3 3 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.14%) MySQL
4 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.14%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.14%) Redis
5 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.57%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.55%) MLflow
2 6 (3.41%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 91 (51.70%) Finance
2 43 (24.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (19.89%) Banking
4 26 (14.77%) Financial Institution
5 21 (11.93%) Law
6 20 (11.36%) Social Skills
7 18 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (9.66%) Marketing
9 15 (8.52%) Public Sector
10 9 (5.11%) Legal
11 6 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.84%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.14%) Aviation
13 2 (1.14%) Games
13 2 (1.14%) Public Speaking
13 2 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (38.64%) Lead
2 57 (32.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 54 (30.68%) Data Scientist
4 36 (20.45%) Developer
5 26 (14.77%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (13.64%) Lead Data Scientist
7 17 (9.66%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 14 (7.95%) Statistician
9 13 (7.39%) Lead Developer
10 10 (5.68%) Senior
11 7 (3.98%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.41%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Research Engineer
13 5 (2.84%) Research Scientist
14 4 (2.27%) Architect
14 4 (2.27%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 4 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
14 4 (2.27%) Security Engineer
14 4 (2.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 3 (1.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (45.45%) PyTorch
2 72 (40.91%) TensorFlow
3 39 (22.16%) LangChain
4 38 (21.59%) LlamaIndex
5 34 (19.32%) Hugging Face
6 32 (18.18%) Model Context Protocol
7 29 (16.48%) Langfuse
8 24 (13.64%) scikit-learn
9 17 (9.66%) NumPy
9 17 (9.66%) Pandas
10 9 (5.11%) Google JAX
10 9 (5.11%) JAX
10 9 (5.11%) Web Services
11 7 (3.98%) ONNX
12 6 (3.41%) FastAPI
12 6 (3.41%) Keras
13 4 (2.27%) Flask
13 4 (2.27%) OpenCV
13 4 (2.27%) Terraform
13 4 (2.27%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 57 (32.39%) Cloud Native
2 41 (23.30%) Algorithms
3 38 (21.59%) AI Agents
4 26 (14.77%) e-Learning
5 15 (8.52%) Blog
6 11 (6.25%) Mobile Banking
7 10 (5.68%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.84%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.84%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.27%) Over-the-Top Content
9 4 (2.27%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.14%) CUDA
11 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.14%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.14%) Podcast
11 2 (1.14%) Stable Diffusion
11 2 (1.14%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Android
1 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.57%) CentOS
1 1 (0.57%) Debian
1 1 (0.57%) Linux
1 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
1 1 (0.57%) Unix
1 1 (0.57%) Windows
1 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (90.91%) Machine Learning
2 130 (73.86%) AI
3 96 (54.55%) Data Science
4 86 (48.86%) LLM
5 69 (39.20%) Software Engineering
6 65 (36.93%) Statistics
7 63 (35.80%) Generative AI
8 59 (33.52%) Project Management
9 58 (32.95%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (31.82%) Mentoring
11 55 (31.25%) Prompt Engineering
12 54 (30.68%) Computer Science
13 52 (29.55%) Actionable Insight
14 50 (28.41%) MLOps
15 47 (26.70%) Agile
15 47 (26.70%) Roadmaps
16 44 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
17 41 (23.30%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 40 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
19 39 (22.16%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 147 (83.52%) Python
2 42 (23.86%) SQL
3 16 (9.09%) Java
4 8 (4.55%) C++
5 6 (3.41%) R
6 4 (2.27%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.57%) C
8 1 (0.57%) C#
8 1 (0.57%) Fortran
8 1 (0.57%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.57%) Scala
8 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (40.34%) Degree
2 26 (14.77%) PhD
3 21 (11.93%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.95%) Master's Degree
5 12 (6.82%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.68%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.68%) Azure Certification
7 9 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (4.55%) DBS Check
9 7 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.27%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) Data Quality
1 9 (5.11%) NCSC
2 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Ceph
2 1 (0.57%) Lustre
2 1 (0.57%) NFS
2 1 (0.57%) Samba
2 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (5.11%) Kubeflow
2 8 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 9 (5.11%) Databricks
2 6 (3.41%) Google
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.84%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.14%) Revolut
4 2 (1.14%) Thales
4 2 (1.14%) Workday
5 1 (0.57%) Apple
5 1 (0.57%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.57%) Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat