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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 665 612
Rank change year-on-year +69 -53 +202
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 47 77 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 31 46 66
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £60,625 £38,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £68,750 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -12.70% +1.61%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,938 £96,539
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +62.50% -42.86% +21.74%

All Process and 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 45,523 54,873 47,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.89% 85.86% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 28,510 36,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +87 45 £71,000 -2.07% 70
London +73 28 £95,000 +18.75% 45
UK excluding London +69 17 £65,000 +62.50% 57
Work from Home +77 15 £71,000 -2.07% 100
East of England +28 5 £68,750 -14.06% 9
South East +30 4 £65,000 -10.34% 37
South West +25 4 £90,000 +24.14% 3
West Midlands +45 2 £69,250 +73.13% 2
North West +45 2 £53,750 -10.42% 2
Midlands +42 2 £69,250 +73.13% 2
North of England +40 2 £53,750 -10.42% 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 11 (23.40%) Apache Spark
2 6 (12.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) Azure
2 18 (38.30%) AWS
3 13 (27.66%) GCP
4 5 (10.64%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (10.64%) Prefect
4 5 (10.64%) Serverless
5 4 (8.51%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Big Data
2 5 (10.64%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.38%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.26%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.26%) MySQL
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) MLflow
2 11 (23.40%) Git
3 4 (8.51%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 22 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.40%) Finance
4 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.64%) Marketing
6 3 (6.38%) Aerospace
6 3 (6.38%) Law
7 2 (4.26%) Advertising
7 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Billing
8 1 (2.13%) Electronics
8 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Publishing
8 1 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (2.13%) Spanish Language
8 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Data Scientist
2 7 (14.89%) Senior
3 6 (12.77%) Head of AI
4 3 (6.38%) Developer
4 3 (6.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Associate Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Head of Architecture
5 2 (4.26%) Head of Data Science
5 2 (4.26%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (4.26%) Head of Strategy
5 2 (4.26%) Principal Data Scientist
5 2 (4.26%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Compiler Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Data Science Consultant
6 1 (2.13%) Data Science Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (57.45%) PyTorch
2 26 (55.32%) TensorFlow
3 17 (36.17%) scikit-learn
4 9 (19.15%) Hugging Face
5 7 (14.89%) Kafka
6 5 (10.64%) Google JAX
6 5 (10.64%) JAX
6 5 (10.64%) LangChain
7 4 (8.51%) FastAPI
8 3 (6.38%) LangGraph
8 3 (6.38%) ONNX
9 2 (4.26%) Django
9 2 (4.26%) JSON Web Signature
9 2 (4.26%) JWT
9 2 (4.26%) OAuth
9 2 (4.26%) OpenID
9 2 (4.26%) Pandas
9 2 (4.26%) pydantic
9 2 (4.26%) RESTful
9 2 (4.26%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Algorithms
2 6 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.38%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.38%) Robotics
5 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.13%) Stable Diffusion
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (89.36%) AI
2 41 (87.23%) Machine Learning
3 26 (55.32%) Data Science
3 26 (55.32%) LLM
4 21 (44.68%) Natural Language Processing
5 18 (38.30%) Software Engineering
6 17 (36.17%) Computer Vision
6 17 (36.17%) MLOps
7 14 (29.79%) Computer Science
7 14 (29.79%) Containerisation
8 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (25.53%) Generative AI
10 11 (23.40%) Mathematics
10 11 (23.40%) Mentoring
10 11 (23.40%) Reinforcement Learning
11 10 (21.28%) Agile
11 10 (21.28%) Neural Network
12 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
12 9 (19.15%) Prototyping
12 9 (19.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (76.60%) Python
2 12 (25.53%) SQL
3 6 (12.77%) Java
4 4 (8.51%) R
5 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 2 (4.26%) C++
6 2 (4.26%) Perl
6 2 (4.26%) Rust
7 1 (2.13%) C
7 1 (2.13%) Go
7 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (40.43%) Degree
2 11 (23.40%) Master's Degree
3 7 (14.89%) PhD
4 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
5 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
6 4 (8.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (8.51%) MCP
7 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.89%) Kubeflow
3 4 (8.51%) Terraform
4 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.26%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) Foundry
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow