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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 596 733
Rank change year-on-year -9 +137 +75
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 132 63 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 65 33 97
10th Percentile £45,776 £42,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.23% +8.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £111,250 £96,539
90th Percentile £96,250 £119,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.77% +2.31% +1.96%

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 67,776 41,096 86,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 92.88% 82.94%
Number of salaries quoted 45,490 21,754 61,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 7 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 7 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 +11 128 £60,000 -29.62% 144
UK excluding London -16 71 £60,000 -9.77% 53
Work from Home +40 59 £55,000 -24.14% 51
London +15 57 £57,661 -46.98% 90
Midlands -7 38 £52,500 +16.67% 7
East Midlands +5 34 - - 3
South East -4 18 £60,000 - 12
South West -47 8 £60,000 +41.18% 7
East of England -27 5 £100,000 +56.25% 11
West Midlands -25 4 £52,500 +16.67% 4
North West -20 2 £60,000 -23.93% 9
North of England -37 2 £60,000 -23.93% 10

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 (6.82%) Jupyter
2 5 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.09%) AWS
2 10 (7.58%) Azure
3 9 (6.82%) LangSmith
4 7 (5.30%) Slack
5 6 (4.55%) GCP
5 6 (4.55%) SaaS
6 5 (3.79%) Prefect
7 4 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (1.52%) GitHub
9 2 (1.52%) Serverless
9 2 (1.52%) Vertex AI
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.76%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.76%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.52%) Big Data
1 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.76%) GIS
2 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.76%) MySQL
2 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.76%) Pinecone
2 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.76%) Power BI
2 1 (0.76%) QGIS
2 1 (0.76%) Redis
2 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.76%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Git
2 3 (2.27%) MLflow
3 2 (1.52%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 47 (35.61%) Finance
2 24 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (12.12%) Banking
4 15 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.58%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.79%) Social Skills
7 3 (2.27%) Marketing
7 3 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.52%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Digital Economy
9 1 (0.76%) French Language
Job Titles
1 48 (36.36%) Developer
2 46 (34.85%) Data Scientist
3 33 (25.00%) Lead
4 24 (18.18%) Senior Data Scientist
5 22 (16.67%) Lead Data Scientist
5 22 (16.67%) Python Developer
6 21 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 17 (12.88%) Senior
8 14 (10.61%) Statistician
9 11 (8.33%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Research Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Research Scientist
11 4 (3.03%) Security Engineer
12 3 (2.27%) C++ Software Engineer
12 3 (2.27%) CUDA Engineer
12 3 (2.27%) CUDA Software Engineer
13 2 (1.52%) Data Consultant
13 2 (1.52%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 54 (40.91%) TensorFlow
3 25 (18.94%) Hugging Face
3 25 (18.94%) Pandas
4 24 (18.18%) NumPy
5 12 (9.09%) Model Context Protocol
6 11 (8.33%) LangChain
7 10 (7.58%) Google JAX
7 10 (7.58%) JAX
8 9 (6.82%) LlamaIndex
9 8 (6.06%) OpenCV
10 7 (5.30%) SciPy
10 7 (5.30%) TFX
11 4 (3.03%) EDI
11 4 (3.03%) scikit-learn
12 3 (2.27%) Keras
13 2 (1.52%) Flask
13 2 (1.52%) Kafka
13 2 (1.52%) REST
14 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (31.82%) Algorithms
2 14 (10.61%) AI Agents
3 10 (7.58%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.82%) e-Learning
5 8 (6.06%) Blog
6 7 (5.30%) Over-the-Top Content
6 7 (5.30%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (3.79%) CUDA
8 3 (2.27%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.27%) Robotics
9 2 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.52%) Lidar
9 2 (1.52%) Self-Driving Car
10 1 (0.76%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.76%) BBC
10 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.76%) Life Science
10 1 (0.76%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.79%) Linux
2 2 (1.52%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (71.97%) Machine Learning
2 82 (62.12%) AI
3 78 (59.09%) Data Science
4 50 (37.88%) Statistics
5 43 (32.58%) Computer Vision
5 43 (32.58%) Roadmaps
5 43 (32.58%) Software Engineering
6 42 (31.82%) LLM
7 37 (28.03%) Actionable Insight
8 33 (25.00%) Generative AI
9 31 (23.48%) Mentoring
10 30 (22.73%) Project Management
11 29 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (20.45%) Computer Science
13 23 (17.42%) Signal Processing
14 22 (16.67%) Feature Engineering
15 19 (14.39%) MLOps
15 19 (14.39%) Validation
16 18 (13.64%) Mathematics
16 18 (13.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (83.33%) Python
2 18 (13.64%) SQL
3 6 (4.55%) C++
4 2 (1.52%) Java
5 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.76%) R
5 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (32.58%) Degree
2 25 (18.94%) Security Cleared
3 24 (18.18%) PhD
4 13 (9.85%) SC Cleared
5 12 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 8 (6.06%) DBS Check
7 4 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) ACCA
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CIMA
8 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (9.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.30%) Kubeflow
1 7 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (6.82%) Databricks
2 4 (3.03%) Google
3 3 (2.27%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.76%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.76%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.76%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.76%) Foundry
5 1 (0.76%) Intel