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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 586 682 617
Rank change year-on-year +96 -65 +178
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 51 76 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 34 41 61
10th Percentile £44,500 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £99,375 £90,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £107,500
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 45,432 57,470 49,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.24% 83.88% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,673 30,239 37,620
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,975 £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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,150 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.14% -

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +94 49 £71,000 -2.07% 169
London +70 31 £95,000 +18.75% 129
UK excluding London +58 18 £65,000 +62.50% 52
Work from Home +89 16 £71,000 -11.25% 100
East of England +20 5 £68,750 -14.06% 11
South East +37 4 £65,000 -10.34% 19
South West +35 4 £90,000 +24.14% 5
North West +47 3 £52,500 -19.23% 5
North of England +44 3 £52,500 -19.23% 8
Midlands +62 2 £69,250 +73.13% 2
West Midlands +52 2 £69,250 +73.13% 1

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 10 (19.61%) Apache Spark
2 6 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Azure
2 20 (39.22%) AWS
3 14 (27.45%) GCP
4 7 (13.73%) Amazon SageMaker
5 6 (11.76%) Serverless
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (9.80%) Prefect
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.92%) GitHub
10 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Big Data
2 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (5.88%) MySQL
5 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.96%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.96%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.96%) Power BI
6 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.96%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) MLflow
2 11 (21.57%) Git
3 4 (7.84%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 26 (50.98%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (23.53%) Finance
4 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.76%) Marketing
6 4 (7.84%) Law
7 3 (5.88%) Aerospace
7 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.92%) Advertising
8 2 (3.92%) Legal
8 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Billing
9 1 (1.96%) Electronics
9 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Publishing
9 1 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (1.96%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Data Scientist
4 6 (11.76%) Head of AI
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (5.88%) Associate Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Head of Architecture
7 2 (3.92%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (3.92%) Head of Strategy
7 2 (3.92%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Qualitative Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Quantitative Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (54.90%) PyTorch
2 27 (52.94%) TensorFlow
3 18 (35.29%) scikit-learn
4 10 (19.61%) Hugging Face
5 7 (13.73%) Kafka
6 6 (11.76%) LangChain
7 5 (9.80%) FastAPI
7 5 (9.80%) Google JAX
7 5 (9.80%) JAX
8 4 (7.84%) LangGraph
9 3 (5.88%) JSON Web Signature
9 3 (5.88%) JWT
9 3 (5.88%) OAuth
9 3 (5.88%) ONNX
9 3 (5.88%) OpenID
9 3 (5.88%) Pandas
10 2 (3.92%) Django
10 2 (3.92%) NumPy
10 2 (3.92%) pydantic
10 2 (3.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (29.41%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.80%) AI Agents
2 5 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.88%) Robotics
5 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.92%) Sports Betting
5 2 (3.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.96%) Blog
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.96%) Stable Diffusion
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (88.24%) Machine Learning
2 44 (86.27%) AI
3 31 (60.78%) Data Science
4 27 (52.94%) LLM
5 23 (45.10%) Natural Language Processing
6 20 (39.22%) Software Engineering
7 18 (35.29%) Computer Vision
7 18 (35.29%) MLOps
8 16 (31.37%) Containerisation
9 15 (29.41%) Computer Science
10 14 (27.45%) Generative AI
10 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (25.49%) Mathematics
12 11 (21.57%) Agile
12 11 (21.57%) Mentoring
12 11 (21.57%) Neural Network
12 11 (21.57%) Reinforcement Learning
13 10 (19.61%) Statistics
14 9 (17.65%) Analytics
14 9 (17.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 39 (76.47%) Python
2 13 (25.49%) SQL
3 10 (19.61%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) C++
4 5 (9.80%) R
5 3 (5.88%) Bash
5 3 (5.88%) Rust
6 2 (3.92%) C#
6 2 (3.92%) Perl
7 1 (1.96%) C
7 1 (1.96%) Go
7 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.96%) Julia
7 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (41.18%) Degree
2 13 (25.49%) Master's Degree
3 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) PhD
5 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (7.84%) MCP
7 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.73%) Kubeflow
3 5 (9.80%) Terraform
4 3 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.88%) Databricks
4 2 (3.92%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Foundry
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) SAP
5 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow