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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 601 678 652
Rank change year-on-year +77 -26 +126
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 47 69 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.099% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 29 31 71
10th Percentile £45,750 £38,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £105,000 £91,875 £95,769
90th Percentile £117,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.92% +2.00% +8.70%

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 43,297 57,101 52,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.61% 82.22% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 30,556 40,535
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £53,118
% change year-on-year -14.81% +1.66% +1.18%

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 19 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 13 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 19 October 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 +89 46 £75,000 -2.60% 144
London +78 28 £95,000 +13.43% 83
UK excluding London +61 19 £66,250 +3.92% 95
Work from Home +51 16 £75,000 -6.25% 96
Midlands +37 4 £69,250 +73.13% 10
North of England +20 4 £58,750 -7.84% 13
North West +15 4 £58,750 -7.84% 9
East of England +4 4 £102,500 +28.13% 14
West Midlands +55 3 £67,500 +68.75% 10
South East +24 3 £50,000 -31.03% 51
South West - 3 - - 3
Scotland -1 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £95,000 -

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 12 (25.53%) Apache Spark
2 6 (12.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (48.94%) Azure
2 22 (46.81%) AWS
3 15 (31.91%) GCP
4 9 (19.15%) Amazon SageMaker
5 6 (12.77%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (10.64%) Prefect
6 5 (10.64%) Serverless
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) Big Data
2 5 (10.64%) NoSQL
2 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.51%) Data Lake
3 4 (8.51%) DynamoDB
3 4 (8.51%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (8.51%) MySQL
4 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.26%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.13%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.13%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) MLflow
2 9 (19.15%) Git
3 4 (8.51%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 27 (57.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.28%) Finance
4 6 (12.77%) Law
5 5 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (10.64%) Marketing
6 3 (6.38%) Aerospace
6 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.26%) Advertising
7 2 (4.26%) Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Legal
8 1 (2.13%) Aviation
8 1 (2.13%) Czech Language
8 1 (2.13%) Games
8 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Publishing
8 1 (2.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Senior
2 10 (21.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Data Scientist
4 6 (12.77%) Head of AI
5 4 (8.51%) Associate Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (4.26%) Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Head of Architecture
7 2 (4.26%) Head of Data Science
7 2 (4.26%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (4.26%) Head of Strategy
7 2 (4.26%) Qualitative Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Quantitative Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (59.57%) PyTorch
2 26 (55.32%) TensorFlow
3 20 (42.55%) scikit-learn
4 8 (17.02%) Hugging Face
5 7 (14.89%) Kafka
6 6 (12.77%) LangChain
7 5 (10.64%) Google JAX
7 5 (10.64%) JAX
8 4 (8.51%) FastAPI
8 4 (8.51%) JSON Web Signature
8 4 (8.51%) JWT
8 4 (8.51%) LangGraph
8 4 (8.51%) OAuth
8 4 (8.51%) OpenID
9 3 (6.38%) NumPy
9 3 (6.38%) ONNX
9 3 (6.38%) Pandas
10 2 (4.26%) pydantic
10 2 (4.26%) XGBoost
11 1 (2.13%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.53%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.64%) AI Agents
2 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.38%) Robotics
5 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.26%) Sports Betting
6 1 (2.13%) Blog
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.13%) Genomics
6 1 (2.13%) NHS
6 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.13%) Stable Diffusion
6 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (89.36%) Machine Learning
2 40 (85.11%) AI
3 30 (63.83%) Data Science
4 22 (46.81%) LLM
5 20 (42.55%) Computer Vision
5 20 (42.55%) Natural Language Processing
6 18 (38.30%) MLOps
6 18 (38.30%) Software Engineering
7 16 (34.04%) Containerisation
8 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (29.79%) Computer Science
10 13 (27.66%) Generative AI
11 11 (23.40%) Mathematics
11 11 (23.40%) Reinforcement Learning
12 10 (21.28%) Analytics
12 10 (21.28%) Data Engineering
12 10 (21.28%) Statistics
13 9 (19.15%) Agile
13 9 (19.15%) Neural Network
14 8 (17.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 39 (82.98%) Python
2 12 (25.53%) SQL
3 10 (21.28%) Java
4 4 (8.51%) C++
4 4 (8.51%) R
4 4 (8.51%) Rust
5 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 2 (4.26%) C#
6 2 (4.26%) Perl
7 1 (2.13%) Go
7 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.13%) Julia
7 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) Degree
2 13 (27.66%) Master's Degree
3 7 (14.89%) PhD
4 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.26%) MCP
7 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (31.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.89%) Kubeflow
3 5 (10.64%) Terraform
4 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) OpenAI
2 4 (8.51%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.13%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow