Deep Learning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Deep Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Deep Learning over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 740 849 610
Rank change year-on-year +109 -239 +38
Permanent jobs citing Deep Learning 171 150 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.15% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 107 102 229
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,125 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,375 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £96,539 £88,438 £88,750
90th Percentile £127,500 £100,000 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Deep Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Deep Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning.

Salary trend for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deep Learning over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +83 140 £77,500 +6.90% 76
UK excluding London -3 83 £65,000 +4.00% 32
London +122 69 £92,500 +15.63% 48
Work from Home +77 58 £62,783 -16.29% 41
South West -28 19 £65,000 +58.54% 2
Scotland -51 14 £92,778 +68.69% 3
East of England +23 13 £80,001 +6.67% 11
Midlands +25 12 £55,000 -31.25%
West Midlands +23 11 £55,000 -31.25%
Northern Ireland - 11 - - 1
North of England +24 7 £62,783 +11.61% 3
South East +9 7 £73,750 +28.26% 13
North West +3 3 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire +85 2 £92,778 +0.30%
North East - 2 £62,783 -
East Midlands - 1 £125,000 -

Deep Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.34%) Apache
3 3 (1.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (5.85%) Simulink
2 6 (3.51%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.58%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 53 (30.99%) AWS
2 31 (18.13%) Azure
3 28 (16.37%) GCP
4 16 (9.36%) Amazon SageMaker
5 10 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (5.26%) Serverless
7 8 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.68%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.34%) Dagster
8 4 (2.34%) SaaS
9 3 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.75%) Slack
9 3 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.17%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.58%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.58%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.43%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.51%) HTTP
2 6 (3.51%) MQTT
3 3 (1.75%) Firewall
3 3 (1.75%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.60%) Big Data
1 13 (7.60%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (3.51%) Hadoop
3 6 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.92%) Text Mining
5 4 (2.34%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.34%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.34%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.34%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.34%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.17%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.58%) MySQL
8 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (9.94%) Git
2 6 (3.51%) GitLab
3 4 (2.34%) Snakemake
4 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.75%) JIRA
5 2 (1.17%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (1.17%) TensorBoard
6 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.58%) MLflow
6 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.45%) Finance
3 20 (11.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.36%) Games
5 13 (7.60%) Marketing
6 12 (7.02%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.43%) Law
8 10 (5.85%) Retail
9 8 (4.68%) Banking
10 5 (2.92%) French Language
11 4 (2.34%) German Language
11 4 (2.34%) Italian Language
12 2 (1.17%) Electronics
12 2 (1.17%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.17%) Legal
12 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (28.07%) Data Scientist
2 44 (25.73%) Senior
3 30 (17.54%) Lead
3 30 (17.54%) Senior Data Scientist
4 22 (12.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 21 (12.28%) Lead Data Scientist
6 18 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 17 (9.94%) Data Engineer
8 15 (8.77%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 13 (7.60%) Developer
10 11 (6.43%) Architect
10 11 (6.43%) Python Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) Machine Learning Researcher
11 9 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 9 (5.26%) Senior Manager
11 9 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
11 9 (5.26%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.68%) Audit Manager
13 7 (4.09%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (53.80%) PyTorch
2 81 (47.37%) TensorFlow
3 22 (12.87%) Keras
4 21 (12.28%) Pandas
5 20 (11.70%) Kafka
6 17 (9.94%) NumPy
6 17 (9.94%) scikit-learn
7 13 (7.60%) SpaCy
8 12 (7.02%) Apache Beam
8 12 (7.02%) OpenCV
9 11 (6.43%) Flask
9 11 (6.43%) Web Services
10 10 (5.85%) Node.js
11 9 (5.26%) REST
11 9 (5.26%) RESTful
12 8 (4.68%) MXNet
12 8 (4.68%) XGBoost
13 6 (3.51%) AngularJS
13 6 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.92%) FFmpeg
Miscellaneous
1 69 (40.35%) Algorithms
2 29 (16.96%) Data Structures
3 16 (9.36%) CUDA
4 15 (8.77%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (4.09%) Blockchain
5 7 (4.09%) IoT
5 7 (4.09%) Robotics
5 7 (4.09%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.92%) Life Science
7 4 (2.34%) Omics
7 4 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.75%) Blog
8 3 (1.75%) Social Media
9 1 (0.58%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.58%) Ray Tracing
9 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.45%) Linux
2 5 (2.92%) Embedded Linux
2 5 (2.92%) Windows
3 3 (1.75%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.75%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (81.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 135 (78.95%) Machine Learning
3 91 (53.22%) Natural Language Processing
4 80 (46.78%) Data Science
5 72 (42.11%) Software Engineering
6 70 (40.94%) Computer Science
7 69 (40.35%) Computer Vision
8 56 (32.75%) LLM
9 50 (29.24%) Mathematics
10 49 (28.65%) Statistics
11 48 (28.07%) Generative AI
12 47 (27.49%) Analytics
13 41 (23.98%) Agile
14 36 (21.05%) Open Source
15 35 (20.47%) Neural Network
16 31 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (15.20%) MLOps
18 24 (14.04%) Decision-Making
19 23 (13.45%) Decision Tree
19 23 (13.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 145 (84.80%) Python
2 64 (37.43%) SQL
3 20 (11.70%) Java
4 13 (7.60%) Bash
5 12 (7.02%) C++
6 11 (6.43%) C
7 10 (5.85%) MATLAB
8 8 (4.68%) R
9 5 (2.92%) C#
10 4 (2.34%) Scala
11 1 (0.58%) Fortran
11 1 (0.58%) Go
11 1 (0.58%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.58%) Rust
11 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 100 (58.48%) Degree
2 59 (34.50%) PhD
3 48 (28.07%) Master's Degree
4 24 (14.04%) Security Cleared
5 15 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (5.26%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.02%) QA
2 2 (1.17%) HL7
2 2 (1.17%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (7.02%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) Firmware
3 2 (1.17%) IAG
4 1 (0.58%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 12 (7.02%) Terraform
2 10 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.58%) Grafana
3 1 (0.58%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (12.28%) Google
2 18 (10.53%) Databricks
2 18 (10.53%) OpenAI
3 13 (7.60%) Dataiku
3 13 (7.60%) NVIDIA
4 4 (2.34%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.58%) Samsung
5 1 (0.58%) Splunk