TensorFlow Job Trends

Google TensorFlow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring TensorFlow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 632 593
Rank change year-on-year +112 -39 +209
Permanent jobs citing TensorFlow 129 117 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.84% 0.86% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 60 71 91
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £61,875 £62,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,250 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +23.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

TensorFlow 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 7,003 13,551 13,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.93% 20.90% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,121 8,229 11,114
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

TensorFlow
Job Vacancy Trend

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

TensorFlow job vacancy trend in the UK

TensorFlow
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TensorFlow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TensorFlow

TensorFlow
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing TensorFlow over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Salary histogram for TensorFlow in the UK

TensorFlow
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TensorFlow within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +136 125 £75,000 -9.09% 70
London +76 73 £92,500 -2.63% 41
UK excluding London +81 51 £65,000 -1.89% 49
Work from Home +71 23 £77,500 +10.71% 72
North of England +33 15 £65,000 -3.70% 4
East of England +34 13 £47,500 - 5
North West +48 9 £65,000 - 3
Midlands +53 8 £67,500 +22.17% 7
South East +48 7 £56,250 -13.46% 25
South West +15 6 £87,500 -7.41% 5
Yorkshire +6 5 £63,000 -18.71% 1
East Midlands +20 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 £67,500 - 6
Scotland +6 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 - - 2

TensorFlow
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 37 (28.68%) Apache Spark
2 12 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.65%) Appian
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) nginx
4 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.78%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 66 (51.16%) AWS
2 48 (37.21%) Azure
3 39 (30.23%) GCP
4 22 (17.05%) Amazon S3
5 21 (16.28%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (14.73%) Amazon ELB
7 13 (10.08%) H2O.ai
7 13 (10.08%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.20%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (6.20%) Prefect
9 7 (5.43%) GitHub
9 7 (5.43%) Serverless
10 6 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.88%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (3.88%) SaaS
12 4 (3.10%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.10%) Azure AI
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.55%) Broadband
1 2 (1.55%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.81%) Metadata
2 23 (17.83%) DynamoDB
3 19 (14.73%) Delta Lake
3 19 (14.73%) Spark SQL
4 17 (13.18%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.98%) Big Data
5 9 (6.98%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.43%) MySQL
6 7 (5.43%) Pinecone
7 4 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.10%) Tableau
8 3 (2.33%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.33%) Weaviate
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.55%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.55%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (25.58%) MLflow
2 9 (6.98%) Git
3 1 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) Vite
General
1 60 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 43 (33.33%) Finance
3 20 (15.50%) Manufacturing
4 15 (11.63%) Marketing
5 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.20%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.65%) Law
8 5 (3.88%) Electronics
9 4 (3.10%) Banking
9 4 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.33%) Games
10 3 (2.33%) Legal
11 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.78%) Back Office
11 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (23.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 19 (14.73%) Operations Engineer
3 16 (12.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 13 (10.08%) Lead
5 12 (9.30%) Data Scientist
5 12 (9.30%) Senior
6 10 (7.75%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.98%) Consultant
8 7 (5.43%) Developer
9 5 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.88%) Head of AI
9 5 (3.88%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Machine Learning Consultant
9 5 (3.88%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (2.33%) Data Science Engineer
10 3 (2.33%) Development Manager
10 3 (2.33%) Machine Learning Scientist
10 3 (2.33%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (93.02%) PyTorch
2 64 (49.61%) scikit-learn
3 40 (31.01%) Pandas
4 37 (28.68%) Keras
5 28 (21.71%) NumPy
6 25 (19.38%) Hugging Face
7 19 (14.73%) Lambda Expressions
7 19 (14.73%) Metaflow
7 19 (14.73%) PySpark
7 19 (14.73%) YAML
8 16 (12.40%) LangChain
9 12 (9.30%) FastAPI
10 9 (6.98%) Django
10 9 (6.98%) Google JAX
10 9 (6.98%) JAX
10 9 (6.98%) Kafka
11 8 (6.20%) REST
12 6 (4.65%) pytest
12 6 (4.65%) React
12 6 (4.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.83%) Algorithms
2 19 (14.73%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (10.08%) Data Centre
3 13 (10.08%) Management Information System
4 10 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.43%) AI Agents
5 7 (5.43%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.65%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.88%) CUDA
8 4 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.33%) Hackathon
9 3 (2.33%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.33%) Robotics
10 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.78%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.78%) Genomics
11 1 (0.78%) Omics
11 1 (0.78%) Stable Diffusion
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.28%) Unix
2 2 (1.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (94.57%) Machine Learning
2 119 (92.25%) AI
3 69 (53.49%) Data Science
4 57 (44.19%) CI/CD
5 56 (43.41%) MLOps
6 49 (37.98%) LLM
7 44 (34.11%) Generative AI
8 43 (33.33%) Analytics
9 42 (32.56%) Containerisation
10 36 (27.91%) Computer Science
10 36 (27.91%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 35 (27.13%) Data Engineering
12 32 (24.81%) Metadata Management
13 31 (24.03%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (23.26%) Natural Language Processing
15 29 (22.48%) Software Engineering
16 26 (20.16%) Deep Learning
17 25 (19.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 24 (18.60%) Visualisation
19 23 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 107 (82.95%) Python
2 48 (37.21%) SQL
3 12 (9.30%) Java
4 6 (4.65%) Bash
4 6 (4.65%) C++
4 6 (4.65%) Go
4 6 (4.65%) PHP
4 6 (4.65%) R
5 5 (3.88%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.10%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.33%) C
7 3 (2.33%) Rust
8 2 (1.55%) Perl
9 1 (0.78%) C#
9 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (31.01%) Degree
2 29 (22.48%) Master's Degree
3 22 (17.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (10.08%) PhD
5 11 (8.53%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.88%) MCP
8 4 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.33%) CISSP
9 3 (2.33%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.55%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (1.55%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.55%) OSCP
11 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.78%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.10%) NIST
3 3 (2.33%) NIST 800
3 3 (2.33%) SLA
4 2 (1.55%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.55%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.55%) NCSC
5 1 (0.78%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 50 (38.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.55%) GPFS
2 2 (1.55%) Lustre
2 2 (1.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 47 (36.43%) Kubernetes
2 30 (23.26%) Terraform
3 27 (20.93%) Kubeflow
4 5 (3.88%) Ansible
5 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.55%) SELinux
5 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 39 (30.23%) Databricks
2 16 (12.40%) NVIDIA
3 14 (10.85%) Dell
4 12 (9.30%) OpenAI
5 10 (7.75%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.88%) Google
6 5 (3.88%) SAP
7 3 (2.33%) Automation Anywhere
7 3 (2.33%) UiPath
8 2 (1.55%) Splunk
9 1 (0.78%) Altera
9 1 (0.78%) Foundry
9 1 (0.78%) Informatica
9 1 (0.78%) Intel
9 1 (0.78%) YouTube