PyTorch Job Trends

PyTorch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PyTorch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 580 608
Rank change year-on-year +82 +28 +277
Permanent jobs citing PyTorch 144 123 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.04% 1.06% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 75 59 77
10th Percentile £52,000 £51,500 £40,223
25th Percentile £63,125 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £76,383
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.74% -1.44%
75th Percentile £97,500 £99,125 £116,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,500 £147,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

PyTorch falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,052 11,638 13,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.44% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,256 6,862 10,885
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £41,039
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

PyTorch
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PyTorch relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PyTorch job vacancy trend in the UK

PyTorch
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PyTorch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PyTorch

PyTorch
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PyTorch over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PyTorch in the UK

PyTorch
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PyTorch within the UK over the 6 months to 7 January 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 +111 136 £75,000 -6.25% 294
London +79 96 £77,500 -12.79% 97
UK excluding London +46 36 £67,500 - 229
Work from Home +41 29 £77,500 +10.71% 142
East of England +29 15 £58,750 - 38
North of England +12 8 £67,500 -20.59% 45
North West +23 7 £65,000 -1.89% 25
South East +22 7 £67,500 +1.89% 77
South West +4 4 £90,000 +24.14% 26
West Midlands +24 2 £45,000 +50.00% 9
Midlands +20 2 £45,000 +50.00% 24
Yorkshire -12 1 £71,000 -16.47% 16

PyTorch
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 23 (15.97%) Apache Spark
2 15 (10.42%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (8.33%) Appian
4 4 (2.78%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.69%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.69%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 68 (47.22%) Azure
2 60 (41.67%) AWS
3 43 (29.86%) GCP
4 20 (13.89%) Azure AI
5 15 (10.42%) Azure Machine Learning
6 12 (8.33%) H2O.ai
6 12 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 11 (7.64%) Power Platform
8 8 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 8 (5.56%) Serverless
9 7 (4.86%) Amazon SageMaker
9 7 (4.86%) Prefect
9 7 (4.86%) SaaS
10 6 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.17%) GitHub
10 6 (4.17%) n8n
11 5 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.47%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) InfiniBand
2 1 (0.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.81%) Pinecone
2 14 (9.72%) Data Lake
3 12 (8.33%) Metadata
3 12 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.64%) Tableau
5 9 (6.25%) Big Data
5 9 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.56%) Weaviate
7 7 (4.86%) Hadoop
8 5 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.47%) MySQL
9 4 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (2.78%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.78%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.78%) Looker
10 2 (1.39%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (21.53%) MLflow
2 4 (2.78%) Git
3 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) GitLab
4 1 (0.69%) Vite
General
1 47 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 40 (27.78%) Finance
3 26 (18.06%) Manufacturing
4 17 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.64%) Marketing
6 10 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.56%) Legal
7 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.78%) Banking
8 4 (2.78%) Electronics
8 4 (2.78%) Law
8 4 (2.78%) Retail
8 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.39%) Games
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (18.75%) Senior
2 25 (17.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 21 (14.58%) Consultant
4 17 (11.81%) Developer
5 16 (11.11%) Data Scientist
6 14 (9.72%) Lead
7 13 (9.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 11 (7.64%) Data Consultant
8 11 (7.64%) Data Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 9 (6.25%) Machine Learning Consultant
10 8 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
11 7 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.86%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.17%) Senior Data Scientist
13 5 (3.47%) Automation Developer
13 5 (3.47%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) Machine Learning Scientist
14 4 (2.78%) Data Science Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (81.25%) TensorFlow
2 53 (36.81%) scikit-learn
3 37 (25.69%) Pandas
4 27 (18.75%) Hugging Face
5 26 (18.06%) LangChain
6 24 (16.67%) NumPy
7 15 (10.42%) FastAPI
8 14 (9.72%) Django
8 14 (9.72%) Google JAX
8 14 (9.72%) JAX
8 14 (9.72%) Keras
8 14 (9.72%) REST
9 13 (9.03%) Faiss
10 12 (8.33%) RESTful
11 10 (6.94%) Node.js
12 9 (6.25%) Flask
12 9 (6.25%) React
13 8 (5.56%) OAuth
13 8 (5.56%) pytest
13 8 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.89%) Algorithms
2 17 (11.81%) Low-Code
3 16 (11.11%) AI Agents
4 12 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 12 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 11 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (6.94%) CUDA
7 9 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (5.56%) Cloud Native
9 5 (3.47%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (2.78%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.78%) Hackathon
10 4 (2.78%) Life Science
11 3 (2.08%) Animation
12 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.69%) Blockchain
13 1 (0.69%) IoT
13 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.47%) Linux
2 2 (1.39%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Android
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (93.75%) Machine Learning
2 127 (88.19%) AI
3 70 (48.61%) LLM
4 64 (44.44%) Data Science
5 58 (40.28%) Generative AI
6 52 (36.11%) MLOps
7 50 (34.72%) Analytics
8 49 (34.03%) Computer Science
9 48 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 44 (30.56%) Data Engineering
11 43 (29.86%) CI/CD
12 37 (25.69%) Data Pipeline
13 31 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (20.83%) Natural Language Processing
14 30 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (20.14%) Containerisation
15 29 (20.14%) Deep Learning
16 27 (18.75%) Open Source
17 24 (16.67%) Observability
18 23 (15.97%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 122 (84.72%) Python
2 45 (31.25%) SQL
3 13 (9.03%) Java
4 12 (8.33%) R
5 11 (7.64%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.94%) Bash
6 10 (6.94%) Go
7 8 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.86%) C++
9 6 (4.17%) PHP
10 4 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.78%) Scala
11 2 (1.39%) Perl
12 1 (0.69%) C
12 1 (0.69%) C#
12 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (41.67%) Degree
2 33 (22.92%) Master's Degree
3 21 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (13.89%) PhD
5 16 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 11 (7.64%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.47%) MCP
8 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (2.08%) CISSP
10 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.39%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.39%) OSCP
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.78%) NIST
2 4 (2.78%) SLA
3 3 (2.08%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.39%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.39%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.39%) NCSC
5 1 (0.69%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 47 (32.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.39%) GPFS
2 2 (1.39%) Lustre
2 2 (1.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (25.69%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.94%) Kubeflow
2 10 (6.94%) Terraform
3 9 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (1.39%) SELinux
5 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (20.83%) OpenAI
2 26 (18.06%) Databricks
3 20 (13.89%) Microsoft
4 14 (9.72%) NVIDIA
5 13 (9.03%) Dell
6 8 (5.56%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (5.56%) UiPath
7 5 (3.47%) Foundry
7 5 (3.47%) SAP
8 4 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.78%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.78%) iManage
8 4 (2.78%) Palantir
8 4 (2.78%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.08%) Google
10 2 (1.39%) Splunk
11 1 (0.69%) Intel